We were due on Thursday February 17th. Lydia had a Dr.'s appointment on that day, and we were hoping that he would say that we were close. We had to see another Dr. in the office because our normal Dr. was on vacation. We saw Dr. Garcia and let us know that Lydia was still on 1.5 cm dialated and only 10%; that was no change from the week before. He said that we should come back in a week and see how its progressing and just in case, we should schedule an induction for Friday morning (2/25).
We were a little discouraged that things weren't progressing, but we knew Graham would come when God wanted him to come. So another anxious week went by and we went to the Dr. on Thursday morning (2/24). This had become a weekly ritual followed by lunch and then back to work to report how things were going. This time we saw our normal doctor ... Dr. McLennan. Lydia still was only about 2 cm and "maybe" 15%. So Dr. McLennan decided it was time to do something about it. He gave us the option to be induced the next day or the following Tuesday, as those were his on-call days. Lydia was ready, so we decided Friday would be good, plus it would give the family the weekend to visit. He mentioned that Lydia's blood pressure was high for the first time of the pregnancy, so they would monitor that once we got in the hospital.
The next discussion that Dr. M had was that we needed to check in the hospital that day at 5. They needed to ripen the uterus before induction with a medicine called Cervadil (sp?). It needed 12 hours to work. So for those of you who know me, I hadn't planned on doing anything that day, so finding out we had just a few hours to pack and be at the hospital was CRAZY!! We went and grabbed lunch because they told Lydia she wouldn't be able to eat for about 24 hours, then we started calling and texting as many people as we could. Lydia had taken the day off so she went home to clean and pack. I went to work to wrap a few things up and I left about 3.
We packed quickly and headed to the hospital for check-in at 5. We were put in room 1338. I can't even begin to describe how nice, new, clean and state of the art the room was. I also can't even tell you how awesome the care of the nurses was. We had a new nurse every 12 hours and for the entire stay - they were incredible.
Dr. Garcia was on call Thursday night, so he administered the Cervadil around 9. Isaac, Meg, and Becki came to visit us and brought me dinner. We had a lot of fun and even managed to play a few games of Skipbo. It really helped ease our anxiety to have them there and the time went by quickly. Lyd went to sleep around 10 but would wake up about every 45 minutes in pain (labor) or to use the bathroom.
I slept great (every 45 minutes). They had a monitor hooked up to Lydia to monitor Graham's heartbeat and that was connected to large speakers in the room. So I listened to his heartbeat all night. The nurses came in often to monitor Lydia because her blood pressure continued to go up, which was unusual.
We both woke up around 7:45 on Friday morning. ...
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