Who knew it was so hard to schedule a c-section?

Last week my doctor asked me to come prepared to my 34 week appointment with a date in mind for when we would like to schedule the c-section (since Logan is breech and Riley is transverse and they told me that my chances of anything but a c-section are zero) should the babies make it past 37 weeks. At first when she asked if I wanted to schedule an appointment right then and there I was totally taken aback. I was like... pick a date? But what if the babies don't want to wait that long? She explained that if they came earlier, fine... this was just our "pull the plug" on the pregnancy date. I was at my appointment alone and felt ill equipped to make a decision on the spot, so I asked her if I could talk to Steve first. That's when she told me just to have a date in mind for the following week's appointment. If only I had just sucked it up and picked something!

Yesterday was my 34 week appointment, which was just standard fair, nothing new (babies are still doing great). The only thing is that the NST nurse (not my normal lady) forgot to check the schedule and long story short, left me in the waiting room for 30 minutes when she was supposed to get me right away.

Side note: while the NST was not a great experience because this lady is easily distracted and should not do NSTs (on Friday she left the room for like 15 minutes and one of the babies kicked off the sensor and it was beeping like a flatline on  heart monitor for like 8 minutes - so annoying!!!) it was pretty cool that once someone else stepped in and got the sensors working I got to see what it looked like on the monitor for Logan to be asleep.

Anywho, because of the hold up it was late by the time I finally got to see the doctor. I asked what exactly it looks like scheduling wise - do you pick a day and they call you any time that day? She explained that there were four time slots each day and that they stick pretty close to them. She suggested the am because you can't eat after midnight the night before and that a 3:30 time slot could be pretty rough. I requested Thursday, 3/22 as my first choice (which I later realized that all three of my babies would then have the same bday) and Wednesday, 3/21 as my second choice. We couldn't set it up yesterday because it was after 5 by that time, and the nurse who sets the appointments up had gone home.

Well, I got the call today. Apparently, the way LVH sets it up is that they will only book two appointments in a day until every other day that week has two appointments. Then they will book the third for each day, then the fourth. So basically, even though there are spots open on Wednesday and Thursday, I can't have them because there is still an open time slot for Tuesday. I even tried for Friday, but no... Tuesday is the only day with the open slot (they won't schedule for any other day until that open Tuesday is filled). You may ask, why not just take Tuesday? Well, for one thing, that does not work very well for Steve's schedule - he would end up cancelling class almost every day that week, which is no good. The other issue is that my dad already told me that Tuesday, 3/20 is literally the only day in the entire month of March that he can not get out of work.

The nurse from College Heights went to bat for me and the LVH nurse suggested that we wait and see if someone else takes that slot, opening up a slot on Wed or Thurs. That means right now we are just kind of hanging out without a plan.....


In other news, I'm currently in my second official day of maternity leave, which is boring! In the words of Steve, I am horrible at entertaining myself. TV bores me, I can't read for long stretches of time, I don't really like video games, I've done almost all of the nursery prep, and napping (and sleeping in general) has been difficult for me for the past month. I am happy to say though that I think I may have discovered the key to napping - Penguin! Cuddling with Penguin puts me just in the right position to be able to fall asleep for a little bit. What would I do without that little girl? She is such good company and I'm so lucky to have her!