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36 weeks, might be induced next week

beachdancerbeachdancer member
edited October 2014 in 3rd Trimester
So prior to being pregnant, my blood pressure would occasionally run high, so I wasn't surprised when it started being a little high while pregnant.  I'd been sent down to triage once, and so thought nothing of it when I was sent down to triage for some tests yesterday due to high blood pressure.  But one test turned into two tests, turned into an ultrasound... By the time I spoke to the dr. about my tests I'd been at the hospital for roughly six hours.  The results were: high blood pressure, high uric acid, and the baby (although healthy) is estimated as very small (2nd percentile).  So my doctor told me that I had to stop working, they would monitor me for preeclampsia and I might be induced by Thursday.  WHAT!?  Things moving so fast.The conversation went something like this:

Dr: Do you have anything planned this weekend?
Me:  Not really, no.  And it's a long weekend, so I don't have to be back at work until Tuesday
Dr: Oh no, you're not going back to work.  
Me: Like, at all?
Dr:  Not at all.  We're going to monitor you Sunday and see you Tuesday, and if there's protein in your urine  we'll try to hold off on inducing you until Thursday, since we like to wait until 37 weeks.  
 Me:  And if there's no protein?
Dr: Then you stay pregnant
Me:  And go back to work.
Dr.  No.  You're not going back to work.
Me:  Like, at all?
Dr.  Like at all. So we'll see you Sunday, and Tuesday, and you won't go back to work.
Me:  And then I might have a baby on Thursday!?

Clearly I was having trouble wrapping my brain around the intricacies of the situation.

Anyway, I'm feeling a little overwhelmed, and a little excited and a little scared.  But there are a few things I have questions about.  What EXACTLY is the difference between preeclampsia and hypertension?  I have to pee on a strip every time I go into the dr, and that isn't showing any protein in my urine: does the protein need to be present for it to be preeclampsia?  My dr. said that preeclampsia can cause low birth weight, but if that's NOT the problem, then what else could be causing the birth weight three weeks behind where he "should" be?  

On another note, I'm nervous about leaving work.  I'm a high school teacher and I don't have a sub yet, and feel nervous about leaving the classroom before any MAJOR assignments have been given or graded.  I'll be out for their first novels and first major papers.  I know that the baby's health and my health comes first, but I can't help but feel like I'm also doing a disservice to my students.
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