On Monday July 2nd, I went to my regular scheduled Doctor's appointment. The doctor was concerned that my blood pressure was high and found protein in my urine. These are both signs of preeclampsia. She sent me to OB triage to be screened and rule out weather or not preeclampsia had started. I went to triage later that afternoon for blood work. My blood pressure still continued to be high while I was being monitored. The blood work also came back elevated for preeclampsia. The doctor at triage decided to admit me and continue with a 24 hour urine test to get a positive diagnosis. After I was admitted I once again started to bleed, therefore the urine test could not be completed. The doctor's thought maybe it would stop and we could pick back up on the urine test, but the concerns of a third bleed seemed to out rule the need for a positive diagnosis. On July 3rd, the doctor's decided to move me to labor and delivery and start the induction process that afternoon. At 4pm I recieved cervidel, which is placed into the cervix to help get it ready for delivery. They leave it in for 12 hours in hopes that it will help dialate the cervix. At 2am I started passing clots and therefore the cervidel came out as well. They decided to go ahead and start the potocin at 3:30am to get things going. My water broke at 8:30am and the contractions started to become intense. I was dialated at 2cm when the doctor checked. The contractions became extremely intense and I decided to get an epidural. When the doctor checked me after the epidural a few minutes later I was already dialated to 8cm. Within a matter or minutes I started to feel pressure and the need to push. With only 6 or 8 pushes, Avy decided to make her entrance at 10:44am. I am so thankful for a quick delivery. The nurse and the doctor's said that if I have any more children I better get to the hospital QUICK since the second one is usually quicker! The doctor said he hadn't had a deliverly that fast in awhile!
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