Update

Today was certainly a typical Monday. Someone at work accidentally forwarded an email to someone who didn't need to know I was involved in a situation. It's not the end of the world, but certainly not how I was hoping the day would begin. Then, after spending an hour and a half grading assignments online, all of my comments and grades were lost. I'll have to re-enter everything again.

The OB appointment today had some highs and lows. As a reminder, I'm 38 weeks now. Baby's heartbeat was 159, so that's good. My blood pressure was 120/64, which is high for me, but completely normal. I'm dilated 1cm, so we're still making progress. Unfortunately, I had some extra protein in my urine. I tend to drink quite a bit of water (well over a gallon a day)- always have been a good water drinker. The doctor had them draw some blood today and beginning tomorrow morning, I get to collect all of my urine for 24 hours. Oh yeah-- get to pee in a jug, and shall I share that the jug needs to be kept refrigerated?!? I'm a bit concerned that I'm going to fill the jug before my 24 hours is up, so I'm fairly certain I'll be driving into the doctor's office tomorrow to get a second jug. When I return my collection Wednesday morning, they'll take more blood. Exciting! We'll get the test results on Thursday. The extra protein could be a urinary tract infection, but I'm not having any of those symptoms. It could also be pre-eclampsia, but my bp is in the normal range...just high for me. Who knows?

I also found out that my OB will be out of town all next week. Not the best timing considering all this protein stuff has jumped up AND I could go into labor at any time. I knew going in that someone from the practice could deliver me, I just didn't think it would happen. I was able to keep it together until we walked out of the hospital, and then the water works began flowing. I know a lot of it was hormones, but it still kinda stinks.