Well, here is the Triage story from Thursday night.
I’d noticed that my stomach was super tight most of the day on Thursday. It felt like I had been sucking in my stomach all day and it was just tired. And when I was up and walking around, it felt like I had 100 lbs of weight hanging from the front of my belly. So at 10.30p at night, I decided to call Triage and see what they had to say.
They guessed all was well but I think the combination of being 39w and me being almost 39 years old, and that I said it had been feeling this way since at least 4p (over 6+ hours) but they said I should probably come in and get checked out, just to make sure everything was OK.
We had a decision to make – should we wake Mallory up, drop her off somewhere, and then Rick could go with me to Triage? Or, since I knew I wasn’t in labor and was perfectly capable of driving myself to Ann Arbor, should I let Rick & Mallory stay at home in bed but make sure Rick knew where the packed bags were in case they decided to keep me. I decided I should drive myself (but almost changed my mind when Rick was stumbling around the house yawning because I was keeping him awake…hell, if I was driving MYSELF to the freaking hospital, you could at least wait a bit to want to fall back asleep).
I showed up at the Birth Center Triage guard shack and the security guy was like “um, where’s the patient?” while he looked in my backseat. Um, dumbass – I’m the patient – so I leaned back and pointed to my belly and he quickly let me through the gate. And showing up at the Triage desk by myself was pretty fun, too.
They got me on the belly monitors and listened to Arlo’s heart rate for about an hour. They finally heard all the accelerations they needed to so I was allowed to leave. They think that maybe the baby rotated a bit and the bottom is now facing out, instead of to the side and that’s why my tummy was feeling so tight. They tried to help me feel that the sides of my belly weren’t hard like the front – but I didn’t quite feel the same thing as them so I just nodded in agreement so I could leave.
So, still pregnant.