Wednesday, December 10, 2008

We had the amniocentesis done today and it went good. I was pretty nervous about getting this long needle shoved in my belly. The hardest part was that everything took so long. It was ridiculous! They required us to get there 30 min before to fill out paper work. It took me five min to fill it out. Then, the sono took forever because she was so squirmy that it took the tech forever to get good pics. Then, we had a break for lunch. When we came back we had to show up 15 min ahead and then everything took forever from there too. The actual amnio took only a few seconds. It didn't hurt bad at all. Just a tiny little stick and a little pressure. Afterward I felt like I was going to pass out just cause that's how I am. I do it after getting shots and getting my blood drawn too. I had a little bit of cramping but it went away fairly quickly too. The other part that drove me crazy was dropping off the amnio fluid. They told us to just go over to the hospital and drop it off at this one place. We didn't realize we'd be there for over an hour! We had to wait for forever then fill out all kinds of stuff. It didn't help that it seemed like no one knew what they were doing.

Anyway, the doc called us fairly quickly after that and said the lungs were mature! So thankful! So, we're going in at 8 in the morning for the induction. I'm way excited to meet our little girl tomorrow!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Man, what a drag with all the waiting, but hey, you get a new baby tomorrow!! :) I'll be praying that everything goes just swimmingly!

LivG said...

Congrats! Get some rest tonight!

tsbjf said...

I'm glad everything went ok! Sounds like it took forever though, and that seems a little weird that they had you take your fluid over yourself...but at least it all ended well. And tomorrow is the big day, yay!!! I didn't realize you were getting it done in the morning, for some reason I was thinking the evening, but that's probably my pregnancy brain working against me :) . Can't wait to see pictures of Addison and hear your story about her birth! Will be praying for you tomorrow. Love you!