Our trip to Labor & Delivery

It started out as a normal Sunday afternoon. Jason & I planned on getting some grocery shopping done, maybe a few loads of laundry, and then we were off to Quakertown. Well, it started out normal... but that's definitely not how it ended up.

While we were on our way to the grocery store I started having sharp pains in my left side. I figured it was probably nothing, just gas or something, so I ignored it and continued shopping. When I got home I thought I would lay down for a bit before we headed up to Q-town. But the pain got worse. So I put a call into the doctors office. 30 minutes later... no call back. So I tried again. Another 20 minutes and I just couldn't take it anymore, we were off to the ER.

Luckily at our hospital they take anyone over 16 weeks straight up to Labor & Delivery. I was 16 weeks 4 days... whew! So I was whisked straight upstairs where they tested my urine and did an ultrasound. The urine looked clean (no UTI or bladder infection) and the ultrasound showed that the baby was a-ok. They also ruled out kidney stones since there was no blood in my urine. So at that point, no one knew what the heck was wrong with me.

They thought it might be round ligament pain (RLP) which is when the ligaments that hold the uterus to the abdominal wall stretch when the uterus grows. But they wanted to do a more high-tech ultrasound to make sure it wasn't an ovarian cysts or something else. By the time the ultrasound tech from radiology made it up to our room we had been in the hospital for 6 hours and we were exhausted!

The tech said everything looked ok, but the doctor needed to look at the pictures. Apparently that takes 2 hours. Finally one of the residents came in and told us we could go home. "Um... so what's wrong with me?" She said it probably was just the RLP and to take some tylenol. So with that, we were off and on our way back home.

The highlight of the evening had to be on our drive home... the Phillies had just won Game 4 of the World Series, giving them a 3 to 1 advantage over the Tampa Bay Rays. The crowds were pouring into the streets. Everyone was screaming and cars were honking their horns. It was so cool to see the city so excited! Only 1 more win to go!