Well, yesterday was interesting to say the least. We arrived at the hospital at 5:30pm for them to administer the gel and the supervisor informed me they were so backed up in Triage they didn't have a bed for me. Apparently everyone was in labor but me ;) So they tell us to come back around 7:30pm and Alf and I go and have a nice dinner close by. We go back at 7:30 and a nurse comes in and gets things started, hooks me up to all the machines and tells me they need to monitor me for an hour or so. When she comes back in to check the data from the fetal heart rate monitor she tells me she is concerned b/c when I came in Kaleb's heart rate was about 135 and now it's up in the 170s. She tells me she is going to call my doctor and to keep drinking water and to try to relax. HA! That's like telling someone, "this will only sting a bit" as they proceed to stick a knife in your eye. So, I do what most first-time Moms would do and immediately freak out. Alf does his best to reassure me, but to no avail. Almost 30 minutes later (ahh!) she comes back in and says she can't get ahold of my doctor. sweet news. What else? Then she says, "I think I am going to try her on her CELL PHONE." wow. And trying her on her cell phone didn't occur to you until just now......have you done this before? So about 20 minutes later she comes back in and says, "Ok you can go home now." What? Just like that. Before I can pick my jaw up off the floor to even form a sentence, she calmly adds, "Oh and your doctor and the other nurses said the reason the baby's heart rate increased is b/c of the gel. " Ok, don't get me wrong....I know people make mistakes, but I also know this wasn't cowgirl's first rodeo and she should know better than to scare a patient like that and let that much time pass. (We got out of there at 10:45pm) I honestly don't remember her name, Sally or Susie or something like that, but I never forget a face and if I see her in my delivery room I think I will kindly smile and ask for a replacement. ;)
