Comments | divasm: Learning my limits (week 36)

divasm

Learning my limits (week 36)

Nov 21, 2009 15:50

Ask most people who know me well and they'll say I'm a person of high energy. I rarely say no to activities because I'm too tired, or because I'm being prudent about taking care of myself. There are exceptions, of course, I didn't stay out drinking the night before my Yosemite hike for example - but for the most part I am fairly hearty and can push ( Read more... )

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lynthia November 22 2009, 04:19:56 UTC

Suck about the Group B thing! I took the test, but since it was negative they never told me anything about *why* I took it. Yuck.

divasm November 22 2009, 05:36:13 UTC

Yeah, I actually knew about it from research, my doctor didn't tell me that if I didn't hit the 4-hour window the baby would have to stay for treatment, that I knew from reading. She just told me that I have to go to the hospital as soon as my water breaks. It's not a huge deal - if I don't get antibiotics the baby only has 1 in 200 chance of getting Strep B from me but if I do get them it's 1 in 4000. And Strep B has no relation to the kind of Strep that causes Strep Throat.

lynthia November 22 2009, 17:17:24 UTC

The thing that makes me go "oh, yikes" about it is that I was in labor for 20 hours before I went to the hospital, and my water still hadn't broken. I finally just had that feeling it was time to go. We got there at 12, my water broke around 1:30 or 2 am, and he was born at 3:32 am. So there was no way a 4 hour dose of anything could have happened in there.

So, good that you know ahead of time what you're dealing with, because sometimes you don't get your water breaking as the sign that things are starting - it's not like in the movies, darn it! :)

divasm November 22 2009, 17:28:05 UTC

Yeah, that's pretty common, only 25% of women have their water break before they get to the hospital, so actually I still have to worry about that - about getting to the hospital too late.

My doctor says that when the contractions are 5 minutes apart that's my cue, but actually hearing about other people's birth stories, including yours, is one of the reasons I decided to get a Doula. That way somebody who is an expert of sorts can help advise when to go to the hospital.