Everything’s fine
Yesterday morning while scraping the snow off her car, Jeanette fell and bruised her hip. Not bad, but enough that it hurt a little. It just so happened that yesterday after school she had an appointment with her OBGYN for a baby check up, so I told her to make sure she let the doctor know. She didn’t think anything of it because the baby was moving around fine, and she seemed fine, but she said she would.
After school she went to the Doctor and mentioned the fall, and he sent her across the street to the hospital to get checked out. It was just a routine thing because she had fallen, but he wanted to make sure everything was fine.
This scared my wife.
She called me and told me what was going on, so I left work immediately and rushed over.
This scared me.
I got up to the Maternity Ward at Memorial and couldn’t find a nurse to help me find Jeanette (I think they were in a meeting or something) and then one happened to walk out and help me. I found out she was in Triage (btw, that’s about the scariest sounding place in a hospital, but it just means, we bring you in here and check you out. Still scares me though.). I finally got to her and she was hooked up to a fetal monitor and a nurse was talking to her. The nurse was great, she let me know that everything was fine and that they were just gonna take some blood and urine and do an ultrasound to make sure Jeanette and the baby were OK. Jeanette was pretty shaken up, but she was glad I was there with her. We were there from about 4:15 to 7:30, and everything looked fine. On the bright side, we DID get a second ultrasound and another chance to see Katie (we had the tech check to make sure she didn’t see any boy parts… yup, still a girl. :)). They did notice incidentally that Jeanette had an above normal amount of amniotic fluid (97th percentile) which isn’t a really bad thing, there’s a really tiny chance that there’s something wrong with the baby, but the doctor said more than likely, the baby just pees a lot (did you know the amniotic fluid is pee? How weird is that?). So they want us to come back to the doctor next week or the week after and have another Ultrasound (darn) just to make sure everything is cool.
We left and were able to talk to our parents and let them know what’s goin on and they were very encouraging and supportive. Then we went to Logan’s because we were starving! Oh, and Logan’s was also very encouraging and supportive… well, as supportive as a steak and potato can be. Which is a lot.
We came home and sat on the couch together and were glad to just have the day over. It was a long one; especially for Jeanette. She’s a brave girl. I’m glad I married her.
March 3rd, 2008 at 2:38 pm
Ahhh….that’s scary stuff, but I’m so glad all is ok and you were able to be there with her. Nice…
March 5th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
We went through a couple of those during my wife’s pregnancies (I’d heard women can get clumsier during pregnancy, but she had it bad) and it was an incredibly scary thing. Glad to hear it turned out OK, as ours did.