DRAMA

I had my 38 week appointment today at 12:45 and all I wanted was a little dilation! Turns out they didn't even "check" me! Instead they put me in the slammer over night for complications possibly due to highish blood pressure. =/

My blood pressure was 135/84 and apparently that's higher than my normal BP. It is the same highish BP that it was last week. I guess they don't "play" when it comes to highish BP in pregnancy.

I will go in to more details tomorrow but for now you should know that I'm at the hospital being closely monitored by the lovely staff at Alexandria Labor & Delivery. They are keeping me until at least 2pm tomorrow. If my levels are still high they'll induce me.

They are doing something called a "24 Hour Urine" which means I pee in a milk jug for 24 hours and then they take the whole container to the lab. Then they'll also do the normal 5 tubes of blood in the morning. Labs labs labs.

I'm happy to be here safe with the nurses at Alexandria L&D. It's just like being at the Holiday Inn but there's no pool...and no bar either.

More in the morning!