Triage and Testing

***Please note this post may be a little graphic***

Saturday November 22, 2008 @ 10AM- Prenatal massage

Saturday November 22, 2008 @ 11AM- I stood up from the massage table to get dressed and a HUGE gush of "water" came out of me. I immediately panicked. Got dressed and left the spa. Called my doctor and they told me to come into Triage and Testing. I was scared and crying- almost hysterical. If you do not know, a baby who is 23 weeks developed will not survive outside of the womb. I started to pray. I prayed to the Lord to protect my baby and not let anything happen to him. I got home and immediately started yelling for Donovan. He came running in from the back yard and I was hysterical. I told him what happened and we where on our way to Presbyterian. I continued to pray and cry. I got out of the car to walk into the hospital and noticed that my undergarments where all wet- this could only mean one thing (I thought). That my water DID break. They say if your water breaks it is USUALLY a gush and then a slow continued leak. We checked to triage and waited for about 30 minutes. The doctor came in and hooked me up to all sorts of machines. One to monitor the babies heart beat, one to monitor contractions (that I was NOT having, Thank you Lord) and several others.


Saturday November 22, 2008 12PM. The doctor did an exam. This is how the exam goes (leaving out intimate details). They have a tape (looks sort of like the tape you use to test water from a sink if you think it might be contaminated). The tape starts off at a yellowish brown color, and if your water has in fact broke, the tape will turn a dark blue. So the doctor does the first test- and sure enough the tape turned a GREENISH blue. The Dr. said "looks like you ruptured". So here I am crying HYSTERICALLY, my legs in stirrups on a hospital bed. Donovan by my side telling me that everything will be ok and he started praying. Then something miraculous happened. The Dr. asks the nurse assisting her in the room "why did the tape turn this blue green color and not dark blue? Shouldnt the tape be yellow when you start the test". And the nurse replied "unless we have a new kind of tape then it should start at yellow and become dark blue if her water broke, let me go ask someone else"... and she leaves the room. I am still hysterical, crying uncontrollebly, and the Dr. and my husband trying to calm me down. The nurse comes back in and says "the tape should be dark blue... maybe it was contaminated, maybe it was exposed to oxygen for to long, maybe, maybe, maybe"... So they get a new package of tape and do another test.

Saturday November 22, 2008 12:30PM- The second strip of tape starts off at the yellowish brown color, they run the test and the tape turns BRIGHT yellow- GOOD NEWS, if the tape turns even more yellow then when it started then the results are NEGATIVE! PRAISE GOD!!!!!! So at this point I calm down a little and ask for more tests... They do two other types of tests, one under the microscope and those two come back NEGATIVE. My water did not break. They do a ultrasound just to quadruple check and sure enough, the baby is SURROUNDED with amniotic fluid!!!!!

Saturday November 22, 2008 12:40PM- The Dr. gives me the Ok to be released from the hospital, I get disconnected from all the machines and out of my hospital gown- we have never been so happy to leave a hospital on OUR lives.

Needless to say- I will not get a prenatal massage ever again. If you are pregnant, and as long as your Doctor says so, you can have massages. I was even given the ok to see a chiropractor... that wont be done.

I prayed to my Lord and Savior that day, all day long. I thanked him over and over for my baby's health!

If my water would have broke I would have been admitted to the hopsital and we would have did this waiting game. I would either go into labor very soon, or the baby could possible survive inside my body for weeks. However long it took me to go into labor I would be in the hospital. A baby can not survive outside of the womb until at least 27 weeks- even then it is not garaunteed the baby will live or be healthy. So praise God everything was ok.

Thank you Jesus- we love you very much!