36+1
I went into hospital again with reduced movements late on Sunday and they put me on the monitor. Baby didnt move much and his heartrate dropped a couple of times so they moved me to a room on the labour ward. They had to monitor me further and told me that they needed to put a cannula in my hand in case baby didnt improve and they needed to rush me off for a c section or anything (scary).
Thankfully over the next few hours baby improved but they kept on monitoring him. Also realised that my heartrate was too high. Should be 60-80 beats per min but it was constantly 100+ beats per min so they were keeping an eye on that too.
During the day yesterday they continued to monitor me and baby...I had to have an ecg/heart test things which seemed to be fine, got a growth scan which showed theres enough water around baby etc etc, baby continued to move throughout the day so that was good, started to take antibiotics for an infection that I apparently have. My heartrate stayed high throughout yesterday and they think that is related to the infection so they are going to get me to come back in on Thursday to do some more checks.
I slept about one and a half hours in a 36 hour period and even though Ive now slept last night I still feel shattered and think it'll take me a while to recover lol
I think it just all took me by surprise because last time i went in with reduced movements it was a case of going on the monitor and baby went mental and it was all done with within a few hours. This time was there 24 hours and they were talking about it being the 2nd time ive come in with reduced movements and so they will need to keep a closer eye on me and possiblly set a date for induction earlier. Nothing seemed to come of that in the end (induction-wise), although i guess they might review on Thursday? Meh....
The cannula had to be taken out yesterday afternoon because my hand swelled up to 2 times its usual size lol I could barely move my fingers and my hand felt all solid ...it was weird (picture below)
Looked through my notes a little while ago and apparently baby is 4/5 engaged.....yay!