What to do when you're alone and you're waterbag broke
By jureathome
@jureathome (5361)
Philippines
April 19, 2012 6:52am CST
Our house is about an hour away from the city where the hospital is and where my husband's office is located. There's only me and my 3-year old daughter left in the house on weekdays, and sometimes my husband would fly to another province for work. I'm scheduled to deliver next month, and I'm really anxious of the thought that I might have contractions and waterbag leak while my husband is away. I really don't know how I'd manage to bring myself to the hospital when that happens. I don't drive, and our house is somehow inaccessible from the main road. I've thought of the following options, but which would be the best?
1) Call an ambulance (the hospital is 1 hour drive away)
2) Call a cab (probably have to wait for 30mins to an hour, and I'm not sure how accommodating they are with pregnant women about to give birth)
3) Get help from neighbors and ask them to drive me to the hospital (this is awkward, coz I never talk to my neighbors)
4) All of the above...
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2 responses
@Sreekala (34312)
• India
19 Apr 12
Hello dear,
I really wish and hope there won’t be nothing wrong happen with you. Why you think the negative way. Please be relaxed and think the positive way dear. You can consult you doctor and find out the most probable date for the delivery. Tell her to admit you before two days of the delivery date to avoid any such unwanted things.
If your hubby away then ask your parents on in-laws to stay with you, if possible. Tell your neighbors in advance you may need help from them; if they are helping then you can make a call when you get any hint. I think get admitting in the hospital on a prior date is better for you. (In case nobody around you to help).
Please be relaxed and hope everything will be smooth for you. Best of luck to you. Take care.
@jureathome (5361)
• Philippines
19 Apr 12
Thanks for the advice. I'll try to take it easy and keep a positive thought. Im just being the cautious person, or maybe paranoid, that I always am.
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@ErinCW (37)
• Canada
20 Apr 12
Would it be at all possible to rent a hotel near the hospital the nearer you get to your due date? Or do you have family that you could stay with that live closer to the hospital?
At any rate, if you stay and you are alone, I would head to the hospital at the very first sign of labour. Even if it's false. There is no need to wait around to make sure that's what's really going on when you have such a long way to travel and have no one around to help you.
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@jureathome (5361)
• Philippines
20 Apr 12
I had a friend once, who told me she had to rent an appartment in the city, for a month, so she'd be nearer the hospital. I have a family who lives closer to the city, but I'm not very comfortable staying there. I may have to consider that, though and just sacrifice a little for my little one.
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@ShyBear88 (59306)
• Sterling, Virginia
20 Apr 12
I thought this one out when I was pregnant with my daughter and we only had one car and my husband always has it. I would call 911 and get the ambulance to come get me one the have flashing lights and they will bring you to the nearest hospital and if you deliver on the way they know what to do. Or I would talk to a neighbor soon then later and say hey, My husband he works a lot and I don't have a car and I don't want to pay for a cab in case I deliver there in car. Would you be willing and able to take me if need be to the hosptial.
Thankfully where I live there is a hospital with in 30 to 45 minutes in ever direction and I do know how to drive a car and if I don't have it then I would call 911 take my 1 year old and go with them to the hospital to have my baby. I never worried about that much with my daughter or with this baby I'm having now.
@jureathome (5361)
• Philippines
20 Apr 12
You're lucky to have a very reliable 911. Here in our place, im not sure how quickly ambulances respond to calls. I haven't really tried that, ever in my life. Maybe, worth a try.
Also, there is a hospital that's closer, just about 20 mins away, but my doctor doesn't go there. So, I really have to get to that farther hospital.
