OB Visits - Week 37 - 12/27 and 12/30

I think I was just getting a little anxious when I felt a few aches and pains this week. I decided to go in a few days earlier than my appointment date and find out if I had progressed at all from 4cm. Turns out I really hadn't and so the Dr. sent me home and told me to wait for contractions. He said it could be any minute, or I could go another 2 weeks. Ugh! I didn't want to hear that but if I wasn't in labor, I wasn't in labor! My original appointment was 3 days later and I never cancelled it so on that day I decided to go in and check my progress again. SO glad I did! At this appointment the Dr. now examined that I was 5cm. She told me she would put me in a hospital bed right now but that it was slammed in the triage and there weren't any beds available. That freaked me out because to me it meant I SHOULD be in the hospital but because it was busy, I couldn't be. She told me she could admit me to a different hospital in Tampa if I wanted to go. But I am really comfortable at St. Joe's and didn't want to do that. So her instructions were to just go home and wait for true contractions. Well, I made it up in my mind that I wasn't going to just wait. So I went home, called Chris, called my friend Kelli who was "on call" to watch Olive, cleaned the house, packed the rest of my bags and then we proceeded to the hospital. I knew they wouldn't turn me away at 5 cm, in active labor or not, and I knew my Dr. said I could go if I wanted to so we did! A. I didn't want to suddenly progress into 10cm labor since I was already halfway dilated and B. I KNEW Edie was bigger than Olive and that she was physically ready to be born. A mom just knows these things :)