Every Sunday Mike and his brother Keith talk on the phone from about 9:00pm-10:00pm. The usual ritual happened, while Mike talked on the phone I got ready for bed, and climbed into bed with my itouch to play games while Mike played with my hair. As I moved my head onto Mike's lap (9:40 pm) I felt my garments get a little wet. I must have made a funny face because Mike asked me, "What? Whats wrong?" I told him that I thought my water just broke, and got up and went into the bathroom. I fully expected fluid to keep coming but nothing. Mike told Keith what happened and then they hung up so I could call my Mom. I wanted to call my Mom because of all the things I have ever heard about water breaking is that there is a continuous leak or gush of fluids, and mine wasn't. Mom was pretty sure it was my water even though there wasn't any leakage coming out, me on the other hand I wasn't so sure. I got off the phone with Mom to call the on call OB because I had tested positive for group B strep, and if contractions were going to start I wanted to make sure I got in in enough time to get the antibiotics. Dr. Moeller called me back about 10:15pm and I explained to her what had happened. She didn't sound like she thought it was my water either because I hadn't had anymore leaks or drips and I didn't have any contractions either. She did say that it could have been some urine left in my ureter and that the baby could have moved or kicked and the urine came out. I immediately knew it wasn't that, because I knew at the time the fluid came out that she wasn't moving. She did say that if I was still a little skeptical I could put on a panty liner and walk around and if it was wet within 30 minutes then I would know it was my water that had broken. While I was on the phone Mike was searching all over the Internet for other things it could have been, and other signs or symptoms that I was having but not noticing. The result: NOTHING. Well about 10:45pm I decided since it was late, and that since I wasn't having any contractions that we should just go to bed, and
IF I woke up with contractions then we would go in. I did put on a thick pad (only kind I had after having Mordecai) at 10:50pm and when I went to put it on I noticed there was some red flecks in my bottoms. It almost looked like some red cooking sprinkles had gotten wet. Then we went to bed and tried to sleep. I had some periods of in and out of sleep but nothing to deep and restful. I kept waiting for something, more fluid, contractions, pain of any sort but that didn't happen. Finally about 2:00am I got up to go to the bathroom and realized that my pad was soaked. This next part is kind of gross, but I put the pad on the back of the toilet so that I could make Mike feel it in the morning and reassure me that I wasn't insane. I put on a new pad and tried to go back to sleep. Finally about 4:00am I decided to come downstairs and search the Internet for any reasoning to what was going on but came up with nothing. I tried watching T.V, but nothing was on so I went back up to bed around 6:00am. Mike was awake and asked if I was feeling anything. The answer was, "No, and I am beginning to think it is nothing." I finally dozed off until 7:00am when Mordecai came in wanting breakfast so out of bed we rolled. Showers were to happen first since Mike and I knew I needed to go in and be checked by an OB from what happened the night before. Mike was going to the bathroom when I decided to strip down to shower and all of a sudden I had one little drip run down my leg. I knew it wasn't urine, just like I knew it wasn't the night before. I wiped it off and was about to get into the shower when it happened again, but this time it was a little pinkish. I showered and started packing a bag for a "just in case" visit to labor and delivery even though I didn't have any more leaks after those two. I did however have a "watery" type discharge every time I wiped but no drippage. Anyway, after we fed the kids breakfast and had Kristal come over Mike and I headed to the doctors office. I was a little annoyed after making my appointment because I didn't feel like Dr. Moeller really believed I knew what I was talking about the night before, I felt like she just thought I was one of those paranoid-first-time-moms. Anyway, we were in the exam room by 9:45am telling Dr. Moeller the events of the night AGAIN, and what had occurred after I got off the phone with her. She did an exam and noted there was a little bit of watery discharge but wasn't so sure it was a leak in my bag and that I was only 4cm dilated. She then did the pH test which came back "blue" or positive really fast which proved it was amniotic fluid and she then said I probably had a leak way up high. See, I am not crazy lady! I felt like she finally thought I knew what I was talking about and sent us over to labor and delivery. It was kind of surreal since I still wasn't having any contractions. At about 10:30am we were being taken back to our room, we skipped triage, and starting the whole check-in process. My I.V. was started and I was given my first round of antibiotics about 10:45am. I was then monitored on the monitors for about an hour. Still no contractions, which I could have told them that. We were sent to walk the halls for an hour at 11:20am and then to be checked again. No progression. It was really weird being there knowing I was going to have a baby that day and to not be in any pain whatsoever. Anyway, at 12:56pm Dr. Speers came in and checked me and said I was still 4cm and that they were going to try to just break my water from down below to see if that would start labor instead of having to do pitocin. It worked, because I started having contractions that were painless about 1:00pm. It was back to walking the halls for another half hour. The contractions quickly began to get painful. I was ready for an epidural and our nurse Fran called the anesthesiologist to do the epidural. After the the contractions were much more manageable. The dilation was progressing slowly, I was barely at a loose 5 because the baby was posterior, but Fran and Dr. Speers had warned me about that possibility and that labor could be more painful because of bone-on-bone. Fran was good about rotating me every 30 minutes from laying on my left side to the right side to help with dilation, but Ruby was still way up high so they sat me upright to help her engage more. At around 4:15pm I started to feel a lot of pressure in my bottom area, but wasn't allowed to push because we were still waiting for Dr. Speers to show up. When she finally got to our room the epidural had quit working and the pressure was really strong so they let me start pushing. Delivery was A LOT more painful than Emily and Mordecai's. Just as Ruby was crowning she twisted which sent a surge of pain throuugh my whole body but she was out soon. Ruby was born at 4:37pm on Valentines Day. She weighed 6 lbs. 10.5 oz. and was 19.25 inches long and her head was 13 inches around. I only had to push through 2 or 3 contractions which was a long time with the pressure and pain but in all reality not that bad. She has a ton of hair, which isn't normal for our kids. She had a weight check today since we only stayed one night in the hospital and she weighed in at 6 pounds 1 ounce. I am thinking my milk is going to be in tonight and hopefully that means a better night of sleeping. I am sore after this delivery because of the bone-on-bone delivery, but grateful I didn't tear or have to be cut. We didn't expect her to come 2 weeks early, but we are glad we were ready. The kids are doing well, but it is going to be an adjustment. We are so glad to have little Miss Ruby here and love her her so much.
