Changing hospitals for delivery

Does anyone have experience delivering at a hospital that isn’t the one your particular OB office rounds at?

Here’s our deal: last Friday I went in to the hospital for what felt like back labor, it kept me up all night. While on monitors our baby boy was showing “non reactive” the entire time. His heart was beating strong and he had movement, but it was enough to alarm my OB who gave me a shot of betamethasone and transferred me to a higher level hospital in case the MFM doctors there decided to deliver. I admitted overnight. When I got there he was still on the severe low end of reactivity, but his BPP scan was showing 6/8 which is good for his gestational age.

The NST the following morning he blew away, passed with flying colors. So they discharged me treating me for a UTI. Well I get home that night and my culture comes back clean, there is no UTI causing the contraction feelings that were causing baby to be stressed. Back to square one.

Tuesday I had a follow up and they ran another NST there in the office. Again, non reactive for 20-30 min. Doctor comes in and says she’s going to buzz him, if he isn’t reacting in 5-10 more minutes she’s sending me back to the hospital. He woke up, but still it concerns me that this is the third NST out of 4 that he’s “failed.”

If you’re still with me, bless you! Lol I know it’s a lot

So we have weekly NSTs, next one is tomorrow. Hopefully he starts passing them and it’s just a weird fluke of timing that he’s been “sleepy” the 3/4 he’s failed. So here’s to the point: if he continues to borderline pass these, like we have to force him to react with loud noise stimulation, we’d feel more comfortable delivering at the hospital with the higher level NICU just in case there’s a deeper reason than “he’s tired” behind what’s going on. Has anyone done this? I know they can’t turn you away in active labor from the ER. My husband and I just feel more confident delivering at a hospital capable of handling anything when there’s so much uncertainty behind what exactly is happening.