38 weeks and a Mother's Instinct

So.... yesterday was "interesting." Let's start by saying that I got a phone call from my mom yesterday morning and she said, "I had a dream last night that you had high blood pressure, are you ok?" At that point I thought everything was fine, but it turns out it wasn't. I had nausea all day and then when I went in for my 4:30 appt. I had high blood pressure. The doctor was a little worried because I haven't had anything close to even being marginal this whole pregnancy. So, the doctor sent me over to the hospital saying, "if it stays high, we will probably induce you tonight." That was a little nerve racking. Not exactly how I imagined everything going down. And on top of all that I was replaying my mom's phone call in my head thinking, "how did she know this?"

The good news is that my blood pressure went down soon after I got there, but we were still there until about 10:30 last night. I felt so bad for Chad because he had rushed from work just to make it to the appointment at 4:30 and at 10:30 pm, after waking up at 6 am, he was still in his work clothes and hadn't eaten anything. I wasn't able to eat anything while they were running the tests and so he was a nice husband and didn't eat in front of me. I kept saying, "you can just go out in the hall and eat a hamburger." He looked at me like I was stupid.

While I was on the fetal monitor, it was showing that my contractions were anywhere from 3-6 minutes apart. But I explained to the nurse that I have been doing that for about a month now and that is just normal for me, so after they checked me and felt that I was still "barely a 1" they believed me and let me go home.
The doctor wants to see me again on Thursday morning and it looks like he'll probably induce then. Which will actually be a very good day since it's labor day weekend. We'll keep everyone posted via blog...