Okay, so remember on Monday when I said I wondered for a minute if they were gonna let me go home from my NST at the hospital?

HA!

Yeah, that was an exaggeration compared to what happened at the NST today. For what it’s worth, the NST itself went beautifully. I mean, seriously, it was the best NST I’ve had since I started having them. The baby was moving up a storm and was the picture of cooperation. They did a quick pelvic check, and voila, no dilation here! I felt pretty proud of that. I’m determined to be closed up tighter than a snare drum this time and it would seem I’m well on the way to that goal. Then, the doctor wanted to do the u/s to check the fluid levels. I was seeing one of the other doctor’s in the practice today, since my own OB was at the hospital in the middle of a delivery. Not unheard of, I imagine.

And wouldn’t you know? The fluid levels were a little low. Especially compared to what they were at last week’s u/s. Not in the “danger zone” yet, but she explained that because of our history and circumstances, it might not hurt to err on the side of caution in this case. And you’re not likely to find us arguing with them on that, since we’re already chewing our fingernails down to the skin with anxiety. She paged my OB at the hospital to see if maybe she wanted to schedule us for a c-section later on today. :eek I was hungry when I got there at shortly after 11 am and now here it was after 12 and she was talking about not letting me have anything to eat. I got a little panicky at that. :lol

But apparently we’re not going to do this today. My OB will be calling me later on this afternoon (any minute now… STOP staring at the phone, Marilyn!) to discuss maybe doing the c-section TOMORROW. :blink Which, if she gives me a choice? I’m totally going to say YES. In the meantime? I sit, and I wait (and not look at the phone… pretend we don’t even HAVE A PHONE for the love of God). I called my parents and they’re on alert. My mom is doing a load of laundry and packing her bag as we speak. They imagine they could be here by about noon or a little later tomorrow. Which doesn’t really help us if we need to be at the hospital by 10am. So I may need to sniff around and see if I can’t find someone to watch Harry in the morning. But overall? If that’s my biggest problem? I’ll take it.

So theoretically tonight will be a BUSY night. Filled with the sort of cleaning where you grab a big box from the garage, fill it with crap and put it back in the garage. Voila! Clean house! It’s like magic! I’ll be back later when I have any sort of update on what’s going to be happening. In the meantime, I sorta feel distracted. Go figure! But excited. Very, very excited.

**UPDATE**
Okay, I talked to the OB’s nurse a while ago (I’ve been running around rather like a chicken with one’s head cut off since so it’s taken me a while to get this update out) and they want to see me in the office at 8:30 am tomorrow morning.? They’ll do another NST and ultrasound to check the fluid levels then.? When she said that I figured that meant no c-section and felt rather disappointed.? But then she told me to not eat anything after 10 pm this evening and to have my bags packed and be ready to stay at the hospital for the c-section after the appointment.? Basically, they want one last look at the baby’s heartrate and the fluid levels before sending me over.? I’m not guaranteed a c-section tomorrow, but if not tomorrow then it might be Saturday.? So… soon.? And I’m thinking… I’m HOPING it’s tomorrow.? It sounded to me as if they want to find an excuse, that they’re “going through the motions” and following the procedure, but I could be wrong.

Oh PLEASE let it be tomorrow.? I don’t think I can wait much longer, especially with having something like the fluid levels to worry about.

I called my parents and they’re set to drive up here tomorrow morning and I found a friend to watch Harry for us until they get here.? So it looks like we’re all systems go here!

Now… TIME TO CLEAN THIS FRIGGIN’ HOUSE!