So we went in for our weekly check up on May 7th with Dr. McKinnie to see how things were going and there was a concern that I was spilling protien in my urine and had some hypertension. I was scheduled for an induction with Dr. McKinnie for the following Wednesday, but Allen and I were planning to ask if we could move the induction day to Friday the 9th because we were getting nervous of waiting too long and something happening.
Dr. McKinnie decided to send us to triage for observation to make sure I wasn't developing preeclampsia. When we voiced our concern, we all decided that we'd go ahead and start the induction a week early!!
So we left the office, stopped at Publix to get snacks for Allen and the headed home to pack up and feed the dogs. Then we headed to the Women's Pavillion to start the party.
We saw Dr. McAlpine and he talked us through what was about to happen.
We got everything started and then Allen and I started watching movies. All the old classic Star Trek movies. Yes!
About 2:30pm Thursday Dr. McKinnie stopped by to see how things were going and broke my water. She said she was planning to come back and help deliver if she could, so we settled in to wait it all out.
Dr. Brickler was on duty and came to check me several times and found that I'd dialated to 4cm with me noticing very little was going on.
We got our epidural shortly after that and met Kevin, our anesthetist. He was pretty awesome. Allen doesn't meet strangers and I'm pretty sure neither does Kevin. They hit it off and talked the whole time Kevin was hooking me up.
After the epidural was in we settled down for more waiting....watching movies and taking naps.
