I left my house at 6:30am Thursday morning, as per usual.  Went to my doctor's appointment at 4:30 to check on the little guy.  And an hour later I was in an ambulance speeding down Mayfield (With two hilarious EMTs).  

While in the office, the doctor thought our little guys heart rate decelerated a ton, and she thought I'd been in labor all day without knowing it.  (Side Note: if that's labor - I've got nothing to worry about).  She held the Doppler on my belly while completely freaking out and yelling for every single person left in the office.  Talk about panic inducing.  A very not calm doctor lends itself to having a very not calm Mama.  Luckily, when she went to attend quickly to another patient, one of my favorite doctors in the group took over for a  minute.  Night and Day.  He was so reassuring and calm, Dr. R definitely has a way with making you feel better and calmly explaining what might be going on.  (Sondra and I saw him once early on in the pregnancy, after one of my massive bleeding episodes, and he had the same demeanor.  So kind.)  

Luckily we only live two minutes away from the office and Steve was home for the day.  I made someone give me my cell phone and called him and told him to get up there right now.  He arrived about the same time as the EMTs.  Keep in mind that the lady doctor has been continuously freaking out these ten or so minutes.  Ack.  I definitely didn't want to take any chances with our baby's well-being, and had no objections to being carted off in an Ambulance, but if it had been just me and her in the office I would have thought our baby was dying.  Luckily there were lots of other people around to express (wordlessly) that she was, perhaps, being a bit over the top.  That helped. 

The nice burly EMTs (In bright pink breast cancer awareness shirts) loaded me up and off we went.  They were excited to hear I was from Zanesville (You know, all that wild animal stuff.) and we sat (Well, they sat) and we all chatted merrily down Mayfield and through Little Italy.  They even took me all the way up to the Labor and Delivery room, instead of just throwing me in a wheelchair down in the ER.  They were awesome.

As soon as we got up to the Labor and Delivery floor they hooked me up to a fetal monitor and tried to figure out why I was there.  Since I wasn't on a monitor at the office, and it was just the doctor speculating about what happened they weren't sure what to do.  The doctor on call said he wanted to monitor me overnight, get an ultrasound in the morning, and probably send me home after that.  So that's what we did.  Baby's heart rate never once dropped again, and every single test they ran came back perfect.  They checked his brain functions, blood flow and circulation, movements, and his heart rate had lots of nice accelerations in it.  Dr R. was on call in the morning and he was so wonderful again. (Seriously, I'm enamored with him and my actual Doctor.  Both are amazing.)  Dr. R said he had stopped in over night and checked on me, and was certain I'd have had the baby by Friday morning.  I was having contractions every two minutes for quite awhile, but they never turned into anything big. (Again, if that's labor, then I'm all about it - unfortunately I think it gets worse.)  

Dr. R. said they didn't know what to do with me (I got told that a lot).  He thought the baby would have been born already, and he explained all the possible reasons the lady doctor would have heard a deceleration the previous evening (one of which was that she didn't actually hear his heart rate go down).  He said if we really wanted them to they could induce me, but it'd be a really hard induction since my contractions had basically stopped and there were no signs of labor.  Or we could go home and wait.  So that's what we did.  If induction was the right thing to do we certainly would have stayed, but none of the doctors saw any reason to hurry things along.  I have an appointment on Monday afternoon to get monitored at the office again, and so we're just going with the flow now.  

This baby has basically run the show since day one.  We're on the lookout for stronger contractions, and any decrease in movement - otherwise we're waiting.  Basically: who knows.