Jen's Pregnancy Blog

<>Unfortunately, the appointment on the 17^th was not all fun. Turns out my blood pressure was up. Way up. They tested it several times and each time it was high. So, after some discussion, they took me across the street for more assessment. I spent some time in triage where they did more assessment, like tracing Baby’s heartbeat and to see if I was contracting (which I was not). After my blood work came back as normal, they really could not figure out what had caused this sudden and alarming change in my blood pressure. After some thought, Dr. K decided to go ahead and admit me. (My doc, Dr. B, was of course on vacation at the time so his partner, Dr. K took care of me.)

So, they got me a room in the Antepartum Care Unit. The room I had was really nice. It was big and had a television, VCR/DVR player, microwave and mini-refrigerator. There was a place of someone to sleep (besides the hospital bed) and a nice glider to sit in. The desk had a chair and a CAT5 internet hook up. There was even another internet hook up close to the bed!

While I was there, they did several tests, all of which came out fairly normal. They checked my blood pressure every couple of hours. At one point it was 190/105, which is extremely dangerous. First we tried my anxiety medicine (thinking that perhaps I was having a panic attack), but that didn’t make much difference. So, they started me on some blood pressure medication. It took a couple of days of trial and error before they were certain they had the dosage right. Overall I spent four days in the hospital.