We'd been hearing for the last several days that they would take Jen off the anti-contraction drugs friday night, and that if she didn't have contractions she could come home. Dr. Rothberg told us that if she had to stay on the anti-contraction drugs, she should stay in the hospital.
This afternoon, she had a Non Stress Test (NST) where they put the monitors on her belly. The good news was the baby's heartbeat was strong. The bad news was that the monitors caused contractions (even with the anti-contraction meds). So we were thinking that she's probably stuck in the hospital for a while.
Then Dr. Brown showed up and said "the NST looks good, you should be able to go home soon." And we said "Dr. Rothberg said she'd have to stay if we saw contractions." Dr. Brown said "You're my patient and this is not a Democracy. You'll be able to go home on the anti-contraction meds, and probably we'll discharge you tomorrow." We then told him that the nurse was worried about the contractions and she was going to come back and redo the test. He said "I'll take care of that," and left. We didn't see the nurse again.
Then the night doc came along, Dr. Debiec, with a resident in tow. She introduced herself, and asked if we needed anything. Jen told her that the nurse was going to redo the test but never came back. She offered to go get the nurse back in there to do the test. I then told her that Dr. Brown (between the time that the nurse said she would come back and the time she didn't come back) said that we didn't need to redo the test. And she said "well, if Dr. Brown said so, that's what we'll do."
Thus, Jen's comment that Dr. Brown rocks.
We think that he may have "nurtured" someone in the hospital. (that's amazon-speak for yelling at them).
That's all for tonight. We expect Jen to be home tomorrow, under the supervision of her personal physician Dr. Menezes (Melinda, our doctor friend who is staying with us). '
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