So Saturday evening around 7 pm i had what i thought was just gas pain, but it quickly became severe, unbearable "gas pain". I tried several things to relieve it and nothing seemed to help. It was utterly impossible to get comfortable. I "toughed it out" until 11 ish and called the on call dr. for my midwife's practice. I have to say he was less than helpful. He really gave me an attitude that it didn't sound like anything "ob related" but something related to my surgery. While i totally agreed with him on that point, the issue is that anything serious does relate to the baby - duh!
I "toughed it out" a while longer and then texted my friend/midwife, i hate doing that because i don't like to infringe on our friendship by texting/calling her with problems when she's not on call, but i needed help. I talked to her around 2 and we decided i need to go NPO (nothing to eat/drink) to let my bowel rest and see if that made any differene. I had thrown up just 1 time at that point, but she said if i went NPO and continued to throw up, it could potentially mean there was an obstruction.
I did end up throwing up twice more before following up with her in the morning so when i had to go in and be evaluated.
Luckily baby girl was doing great through all this, kicking up her usual "storm" in there. When she was monitored she looked great, and thankfully no contractions. I know early Saturday evening i had some but i felt they were just related to all the pain, by sunday morning i had no contractions so all was good on the baby front.
My pain however wasn't letting up much and worst of all i had no bowel sounds!
Unfortunately the dr & radiologist couldn't seem to agree that i needed a CT scan to rule out an obstruction. The radiologist is pretty "old school" about pregnancy and risk to baby. However, if she was to be born at 29 weeks gestation the amount of xrays and scans she would have would probably be 10X or more radiation than the one test would be. Also not knowing for sure what was going on with me, left her hanging in the balance too.
Sunday afternoon while the dr's were "fighting" about what testing to do for me, i had been able to have 2 good BM's (you know poops, gotta love a blog that talks about poop). and my pain started to get less after that. But because there was still the possibility of a high up obstruction or a partial obstruction everyone felt i still needed further evaluation.
Finally OB dr. backing up my midwife decided to call perinatal center in Syracuse to have them take me and evaluate the possibility of obstruction. I had to take an ambulance ride to Syracuse Sunday night, let me tell you they really need to come up with some better shock absorption on those puppies, what an uncomfortable ride, i'm lucky the ride alone didn't put me into labor for goodness sake.
My pain was essentially gone by the time i got to Syracuse (minus the uncomfortable stretcher in the back of a very bouncy ambulance pain i had). The doctors at Crouse decided to give me clear liquids overnight and see how i did.
I had no issues with the clear liquids, and was able to have another BM monday morning. Dr. Silverman bless his heart, asked me what i thought happened. I explained that i really felt i did have a small obstruction of some sort, or at least a severe "Back up" of my bowels but that the NPO all day sunday had helped it to resolve itself. He seemed to totally agree, though he never committed to saying i had an obstruction for sure.
He let me go home. I put myself on a "rest" couple of days. And am altering my "normal" diet back down to more soft foods just to be safe. I'm being very careful about getting in extra fluids.
At this point my tummy is still sore, i think it's just recovering from whatever did happen and is tender. I'm hopeful baby will stay in baking for the next 10 weeks and we'll have no more issues. It was very very very scary to think about having a preemie and have her life at risk as well as mine. Thank God it worked out on it's own!
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