Oh What A Night!

Well we had an interesting night... tightens were pretty random yesterday, 5 mins, 13 mins, 3 mins, 7 mins, 5 mins etc etc... they didn't concern me cause hey... I'm getting use to them... anyway went to bed around 8.30 and doing my normal belly rubs I notice that my scar from prior c-sections is rather tender to touch, get up use the bathroom then go and lay down again... there is a dull burning sensation on one side of my scar... get up and walk to get details to call in to pregnancy assessment just to check if I should keep an eye on it or what not and the pressure that I had been feeling all day seemed to radiate from my scar. So I give them a call and they said best to come in as with scars you never know and with my history from prior c-section they wouldn't want to risk it.

So I head in, and start with the whole what brings you in... and I go over my last few days to give them a bit of background... lots of tightens, pressure, strange headaches (when laying down & put down to the slight cough I've had last few days and perhaps fluid causing headache) and the reason for tonights visit the pain in my scar.

Go to the bathroom, test urine, go on the CTG and he looks great, midwife really happy with outcome, wait around for doctor, checks scar, comments on the excess scar tissue and she likes the fact that she can pin point where the pain is coming from along the scar line, she thinks that with the details of my tightens that I have an irritable uterus, checks cervix and nothing has changed there still long and closed, says she'll be back after checking on urine results (just to confirm no PE due to headaches). She comes back and advises results are in but she wasn't happy about a small dip on my CTG with bubs heart rate and while we wait for the results she'd like me to do another CTG just to ensure it doesn't happen again... she takes bloods and then I wait for midwife to come in, bubs goes CRAZY in tummy, midwife comes in and attaches CTG and well you can see he's pretty active (note all the little arrows on the bottom)

after 30 minutes doctor comes back in and advise that urine is clear, the pain in scar she believes is just cause of the amount and it stretching, that it won't ease but only get worse, to make sure that I come in as soon as I think I’m starting labour as they need to prevent me going into labour, and if the pain in my scar changes to also come straight in… finally she said that once we get 10 minutes of a CTG that they can actually get a base line from I'll be free to go... ... ... over an hour later they FINALLY get 10 minutes of something that they can read.

I did ask her if they will take the pain from the scar tissue into consideration when deciding on when the c-section will be booked for and she suggested that I tell them about the issues it's causing me and ask them for an early c-section... so fingers crossed I'll find out more tomorrow... I also asked her about the irritable uterus and WHEN do I actually pay attention to the tightens, and she has said that if they increase in intensity over time and are regular then I need to contact them.

So I'm operating on very little sleep, and I have Ethan at home today... a day of ABC for Kids I'm thinking!