Hanging out at Stonecrest!

Well, I was bored last night, so I decided to go hang out at the hospital, LOL. Yeah right! Around 3:30 yesterday afternoon, I noticed a little spotting, so I called the drs office (with the persistance of Mark). I picked Kaya up from school and went home. We had not been home for long with the nurse called and said they really preferred I go to the hospital to get checked out. In the car Kaya and I go (as Mark was just about to leave work so he just met us there). Nothing like driving yourself with your 2 year old in tow to the hospital when you might be in labor, LOL. Uncle Chris came to the hospital to get Kaya. Poor kid did not understand why she had to leave and why she did not have her baby sister (as she calls the baby) with her.

Once in L&D, they checked me and I was still 1 cm, 70% effaced (had not know the % before). The nurse was thinking the spotting was from the exam on Monday. Oh she asked if I had sex between Monday and yesterday... I laughed at that one!!!! She got me hooked up to the fetal monitor and said she would check back in 30 minutes. Well, she came back after 15 minutes and said Dr Ross wanted me to have a shot to stop the contractions (during that 15 mins, I had 3 good sized contractions that were the strongest ones I had felt thus far). I had just been telling the nurse that I have been contracting since Saturday, but they were not painful just pressure and uncomfortable. When the nurse came in the room, she said "You might just have written yourself a ticket." I replied "NO!" She gave me a water to drink saying that dehydration can bring on contractions. As I am thinking... what else can I do that will bring on contractions, gessh!! I don't think I was dehydrated... not as hydrated as I should have been but come on!! Well, the shot worked well with slowing the contractions and gave me the shakes, lol. Dr Ross came in (Mark and I thought it was pretty awesome that he came in personally) and said this was false labor but I needed to be careful. He then gave me a little lecture (not really, just drs advice) about the likely condition of the baby if he/she were born now. He said there was a 90-95% chance the lungs were fully developed, but the baby would be skinny and likely not respond to brestfeeding so well b/c he/she would be less responsive and agressive with feeding. Not that I have thought over the past week that everything would be fine if the baby were born now, but I still needed to hear that from my doctor. He said that technically if the baby were born now, it would be premature. There is just something about that word that really hit me (again, not like I haven't been thinking about that.... but for your doctor to say it, it just seems worse). He said one week or even two weeks would make a huge difference. He let me go home cautiosly. Both him and nurse said they very well might have seen me again last night, but lucklly they did not! I actually slept pretty good last night (thought I would be up most of the night as I have been most nights since the weekend).

The whole thing was so odd. Why did I have those stronger contractions while I was at the hospital?? Mark thinks it was my bodies way of forcing me to slow down even more. I am on complete bed rest now. No working, no driving... just taking it easy. Which I really had been doing when I was home this week. The whole going to work for a few hours was probably not the best idea. Oh, I am drinking more water too. I can't help but feel that some of my actions or lack there of (yeast infection I ignored for over a week, not drinking enough water, working when I really felt I should not be) have contributed to the potentional premature birth of this little one, but ultimately I really don't think that is the whole picture. Today is the first day of Spring and the first day of full bed rest... I think that is approraite! I am going to take things very easy so I can keep myself at home and not in the hospital yet!!! I might get bored out of my mind and go nuts... but at least I will be nutty at home, LOL.