So here I was, standing at memorial Hospital filling out my paper work, you know... the important paper work, the kind that states all your patient/ insurance information,what Dr you see ect, ect.... the hospital likes to have this in case you go into labor earlier than your due date, or if you come in with some sort of emergency. Yes that is me.. Do i look nervous? i will admit I wasn't planning on filling out the "for real " paper work, hey after all I just thought Nick and I signed up for a free tour of the birthing suits, to my surprise... we were going to get a little more than that....
Other couples started to file in the waiting room of the hummingbird floor as we awaited the nurses presence to kick of this Rocking Tour... I thought this would be great for nick to learn where to park, what door to walk in and where to check in ( you know just incase I am not able to mouth all that info b/c i may be breathing through a contraction) If I had to guess there were probable 13 other couples there on the tour with us, the tour began and nick and I grabbed each others hands and walked through the double doors... First stop the check in desk. we learned this is where you will come in and tell them what is going on, they will pull your ( important paper work AKA: the kind i just filled out )
Next stop Walking through the double doors into "triage" this is where they will check to see where you are at in the laboring process... they want to see Cervical Change at this point before they will admit you into the "birthing suit" so while you are in the Triage room they will check to see where you are at and then come up with a plan for you, for some it may be to go walk the hospital halls for 45 minutes and then be checked again, for others they will send you home and for some they will be admitted right away to the Birthing Suite... we learned that you will always always go to triage first before entering a birthing suite unless you have a scheduled inducement appointment or a scheduled C- section.
this room was nothing pretty... I mean it has your small hospital bed and the computer equipment that reads your little one, but I remember looking around like, yeah this isn't a room I would hope to be in for long, I hope to be the one who checks in at the front desk ready to go, check into triage, spread the legs, and get the golden ticket to the Birthing suit... yes that would be nice...
So we are in this room and I realize, I was getting shortness of breath, I was thinking to myself, Chels your just standing here, yes shortness of breath is common at this stage of pregnancy, but your just standing... then i second guessed myself, maybe I 'am not short of breath... I just was , you know taking it all in?!?!
Next stop, Down the hall to see the "golden ticket room" the Birthing Suits.. they were nice, you get this bed with this cut out circle thingy on the ceiling that looks like a huge spot light.... you know because mother and baby are going to be center stage of this process. We all piled into the room and nick and I took our spot on the wall leaning in the door way of the bathroom that is hooked up to the suite, I was very interested in peeking in to see the "birthing tub" because i love the idea of laboring in the tub.. haven't completely decided if I will deliver in the tub, all depends of how i am feeling at the time, but I know at some point we will be in there.. it looked big enough.... looked like i would need some flower pedals and maybe some candles to make it more you know "homey" but it looked pretty good... it even had jets... I was looking at the tub and then snapped myself out of it " chelssiw, you are on a tour and this woman is speaking to the group about what goes on in this room, pay attention" I return my gaze to the nurse speaking and hear her talk about the skin to skin contact...
this is where baby is born and laid right on mommas chest for as long as momma wants while she is in the birthing suite, apparently you are only in the room for up to 3 hours while momma gets rid of placenta and everything gets "right" with mom again... Dad's can even take part in this process. they can strip their shirt off and lay baby of their chest as well... we were told that they don't need to go under the light because baby will be warmed by our skin contact... my heart melted.. I looked over at the bed again and just pictured Nick and I laying in bed next to each other with our naked little girl on our chest.... aww so sweet...
again... Chels ok, the nurse again. she is talking... telling you other important info....
I noticed I was having a hard time hearing her and the shortness of breath was happening again.. ( what is going on Chels, snap out of it) and then I felt as though I was leaning.... nick Looked at me and smiled, and I wispered to him... I can't hear her... my feet are tingling... I am so sweaty.... ( i started to panic... what is going on?!?!?!?! ) I took off my jaket and handed nick my purse... i needed all the extra weight off of me... what was going on? my vision started getting very blurred, I am now leaning on my husband and telling him, this is it i think i am going to pass out. I am very dizzy....
ok seriously... this is not a joke.... no i was not freaked out about labor or what we were doing there.. i was extremely excited.... so what was going on, i got scared because this was not normal for me ever weather prego or not... but now i was carrying a baby, our little baby, our little girl Jada.... I had to be ok, i can't pass out, if i do,does she still get oxygen.. all of this was going on in my head ( this was like a 2 1/2 minute span.) I thought SAY something!!! say something, there is a nurse standing in front of you although you cant see her or hear her she is there... you know she is there.... but there are 13 other couples... and this is weird... people will just think I was freaked out or something... so mothers intuition kicked in and i walked backwards into the bathroom i was leaning on and went to the sink...
I quickly turned on the cold water and crabbed my hair off my neck.. which was now covered in sweat, i wiped cold water on my face and was amazed by all the beads of sweat.. and went straight in and started inhaling the cold water...
I remember thinking how am i drinking this much for this long with out having to take a break, and while i was doing this my vision started to come in cleared I lifted up my head to look at myself in the mirror and I was starting to see myself again... I stuck my head in the sink a little while longer and continued drinking...
Nick peeks his head in to see if i was ok, but did it in such a good way that no one else would have thought anything was wrong... I walked out to him and told him i thougth I was feeling a better, but that was so scary the thought of dying was in my mind... I was really scared...
the tour had one more stop in the room where you go if you will get prepped for the c section and that was it for the tour...
Nick and I were talking about what we should do, we were both nervous and scared for what just happened... and wanted answers, and what a better place than being in a hospital... the tour ended at the front desk... the lady who was there when we arrived was still there... she said well what did you think... this is when we told her what happened while i was in the tour and we all thought it would be best for me to be checked out..
my face was very splotchy at this point and my face felt on fire but my back and arms were very cold... the check in lady grabbed my "important paper work... you know the kind i just filled out 20 minutes ago......
and walked me back to TRIAGE room 5... you know the one where the shortness of breath started, only this time it was just nick and I and I was now in a gown.
now these pictures were taken after the nurse came in and checked out Baby girls heart beat which was going strong in her 140's, checked my blood pressure 116 over 60 and my pulse was 62... urine test showed all normal numbers so i was feeling much better knowing she was ok.... oh did I mention yet the nurse that came in the room to see me was the same that gave us the tour... her first words to us when she came into our room were " I thought it would be you" I said what, why.. she said because your face was verrrry pale, I was going to say something to you during the tour because it caught my attention, your color just disappeared from your face.. 
after the nurse checked us she said we had to wait for the attendant to come review my numbers and then she would contact my midwife and it would be up to her if I get watched or get sent home.. mind you know i was feeling much better, back to my normal 100%. the attendant came in about an hour later and said that she thinks if my blood would have been drawn at the time I was going though those symptoms she thinks my Blood sugar would have been very low and that i was probably a little dehydrated which is why my body told me to get cold water and i was able to drink for so long.. we all agreed that I would be fine to go home and just keep snack in my purse and an extra water bottle, because baby is getting bigger now. 1lb and is going to require more than before, Nick and I both felt so much better having been checked out, i cant tell you what would have been going through my head if we would have just left and come home. I probably would have had another restless night. and hey some may say I hyperventilated.. who knows... but i was better now.
oh and did I mention while waiting in Triage 5 after the test were ran and everything looked good, i told nick I know we just heard her heartbeat but i would love to feel her move around, but to be sure... and it was as if she heard me because this little girl started tumbling classes inside the womb... i am not kidding it was the best feeling I have ever experienced... even DADDY got to feel!!!! I was amazed, I was feeling her on the inside but could feel her same movement on the outside so i grabbed nicks hand and he said oh my gosh i felt her... and he has a big smile on his face. he kept his hand there and felt a few more movements... it was great. I know both God and Jada were there to answer our prayers and still out hearts...
so what started exciting ended exciting.. and we will forever remember our first tour of memorial hospital birthing center and one can only hope i look as happy as i do the next time i am pictured in that Gown:)
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