Im such a freak! All the time. If something weird can happen, if something is rare, or uncommon I gauranfuckingtee that it will happen to me!
Ive been having a very thin liquidy discharge for a long time now...I was told it was normal. Well it went from mild to moderate last night. I felt like i peed myself. I woke up in the middle of the night and my thighs were wet and sticky.
I didnt think too much about it cuz I felt fine. But I started to wonder if maybe it was amniotic fluid or something.
So I called my doc about an hour ago. He explained a few slight differences and said that I better come in so he can do a vaginal exam to see where we are.
I went in right away. Phil went with me.
Upon violating my private areas he told me that I was effacing very well, better than what he expected. He said my cervix was very thin only a 1/4 of an inch or so and that I was 2 centimeters dialated....
Phil and I musta had a dumb look on our faces bc he was smiling and said "That means your technically in labor right now!"..."Ohhh, Neat!"
Then I told him my concerns about the use of the drug Cytotec to induce labor. Its not FDA approved, its indicated to treat ulcers and the creators specify it not intended for pregnant women and can cause birthdefects and death to mother and child. The mother can have her uterus rupture and another common use for it is for abortions...
I told him all of this and he pretty much said phooey that it identical to other inducing drugs and they use it bc its generic and cheaper but its the same as other one and perfectly safe and he went on and on about it and the differences...My mind was at ease. However I still just wanted to avoid being induced...
Sooo he mentioned that he can do something right now to speed things along and that would gaurantee I would not have to be induced.
He said he could "Strip the membranes"...
He went on to say that he was fairly sure I would have the baby before monday, but that this would gaurantee it...
So I told him to go ahead and do it.
He told Phil to hold my hand...uh oh...
He stuck both fingers inside me and pushed them through the 2 centimeters or my dialated cervix and ran them around the babies head in a circle...
I was not a happy camper, that hurt like hell! I was whaling in agony...
Doc assured me labor was going to be ten times worse...
"Alrighty then, well remember how I wanted the epideral to be a "play it by ear" sorta deal?:"
"Yea"
"Well fuck that, drug me up as soon as i get there"
Both Phil and doc thought that was hilarious because i was all "if possible I want to do it naturally I dont want unecessary drugs"...So the plan was to have them available but to wait until I needed them...
And after "stripping the membranes" i was converted...It gave me a taste of what im in for and now im all about the drugs. Goodness grief that felt aweful.
Doc said hell be sure to stay sober over the weekend knowing that hed be delivering my baby either tonight or tomorrow morning : )
Hes a jokester : )
