A scary false alarm

Well I spent last night in the labor and delivery unit at St. Joseph’s hospital. It started when I had one my nurse friends from the nursing home come over yesterday morning to take my blood pressure. She found it was high again, 142/108. I called the doctor to report the reading but he was out of the office for the day. So I waited for close to 4 hours to hear from the attending OB, who recommended I go to the hospital for monitoring. At around 4 p.m. they hooked me up to the fetal monitors and drew some labs. They were also monitoring my blood pressure every 10 minutes and found that it was very inconsistent. Some reading were high, some were borderline-high and some were normal. So the attending doctor decided to keep me overnight for observation. They found that my blood pressure stabilized through the night when I was laying on my sides (stayed down around 110/75). My normal doctor then came in this morning and reported that the labs came back normal and that the baby looks really good so they released me at around 11 a.m.. The doctor wants me to continue the bed rest but to try and stay on my sides as much as possible. Then the plan is to go back for my regularly scheduled appointment tomorrow to have an ultrasound and to find the results of the urine analysis. If they are both good then he will start seeing me twice a week (with also having someone monitor my blood pressure daily). It’s kind of a “wait and see what happens” day-to-day situation but we will know more after the appointment tomorrow. Thank you to everyone for your thoughts and concerns. I’ll update again after we know more.