Colton Matthew

Colton Matthew was born on Saturday December 6, 2014 at 11:47 am at 36 weeks and 3 days. He weighed 6 pounds 11.4 ounces and was 19 1/4 inches long. Here is his story.... (be forewarned... there is some TMI information in this post).

The remainder of his prenatal and delivery story starts at my 35 week OB appointment. We had scheduled an ultrasound to check on his growth and see how he was positioned. When they did the ultrasound we noticed that the tech was spending a lot of time on his feet and measuring the amount of fluid he had around him. When we got to the other room and talked to Dr. K she was concerned. There was a possibility that Beanie had bilateral club feet. The amount of fluid surrounding him had also increased dramatically. One of the causes of increased fluid could have been my gestational diabetes. So, Dr. K wanted us to go and see Dr. H who is a specialist for moms and babies. The first appointment that we could get was for Thursday December 4th.  

Wednesday December 3rd ( 36 weeks): I woke up at 4 am and had to go to the bathroom. This was nothing new for me as I repeatedly had to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of the night. However, this time I noticed that I had some blood when I wiped. I turned around and looked in the toilet and low and behold, there was my mucus plug! I went back to bed for the remainder of the night and got up and went to work. As the morning progressed I noticed that I was feeling pretty uncomfortable and seemed like I was having contractions. I continued to see my patients and got all my orders and notes done just in case. Yes, I am stubborn like that. I wasn't about to leave any work for anyone else.  So around 11:30 I went downstairs to Labor and Delivery. I asked one of the nurses to check my cervix to see if I was dilating at all. I was not expecting to hear what I heard. I was dilated to 3 cm and my cervix was thinned to about 70-80%. Holy crap. The last time I was checked I wasn't dilated at all. I was sent home from work for the rest of the day. The contractions continued through the afternoon but later that night they stopped. We took the opportunity to actually pack my hospital bag and Beanie's bag as well. The contractions stopped overnight.

Thursday, December 4th (36 weeks and 1 day): I was supposed to work today, but we thought it would be a good idea if I stayed home. Well, I went and ran some errands. I continued to have some contractions while we ran those errands. We went to our appointment with Dr. H at 2pm. She did another full ultrasound to check and see if there was bilaterally club feet and/or anything else we missed. She really didn't see the club feet. If they were there they were really mild. My fluid level was really high so we talked about all the thing that can go along with that. I'm not going to mention those here as there is too much to talk about. Since I was still having contractions she went ahead and checked my cervix again. I was still 3 cm. My blood pressure was high again so we actually got it checked twice while we were at Dr. H's. We thought it was just contraction related. We went home from that appointment and finished wrapping Christmas gifts and getting the house ready for the Christmas party that we were supposed to be hosting on Saturday. We went to bed around 10:30 and I hadn't had anymore contractions for the rest of the day.

Friday, December 5th ( 36 weeks and 2 days): This morning I got up at 8 am because I had some appointments that I had to go to. Nick was scheduled to work today and I told him to go a head and go as I hadn't had anymore contractions and was feeling ok. So my first appointment was with the endocrinologist for my gestational diabetes. The appointment went great. My sugars have been well controlled with just diet and my a1c actually dropped to 4.7 from 5. She was concerned that I was not giving myself enough to eat, but I told her that I really was hungry or starving myself. She basically discharged me and said that I didn't have to come back. I will get checked at 6 weeks after having Colton to see if I have diabetes, but for now I don't have to check my sugars anymore. After that appointment I went home and ate lunch and took a nap on the couch with Marley. I got up and went to my next appointment which was an OB appointment with Dr. K. At that appointment, my blood pressure continued to be elevated and I was starting to spill protein in my urine (not a good thing). I hadn't had any more contractions, but Dr, K went ahead and checked my cervix since she was going to have to be in there to check for Group Beta Strep anyway. I had progressed to 4cm and she could feel Colton's bag of water and it was really tight. She basically told me that she wasn't sure I would make it through the weekend. I left the office with lab orders for the high blood pressure and orders that I wasn't to go to work anymore. I went home and laid on the couch for a little bit. I thought we were going to have company that night so I was trying to get some stuff clean in between resting on the couch. Well it turned out that there was a huge mix up and our friends weren't coming to our house, but we were supposed to go there!  Oh well... We ended up going to their house for dinner and played a board game. While we were eating dinner (which was wonderful), I felt so sick. I ended up throwing up at their house. What I didn't know was that was supposed to trigger my mind that something was going to happen.....  I felt better the rest of the night and we got home around 11 pm and went to bed.

I am going to continue Colton's story with another post as I am getting tired and it's late.