The plan for the day was to spend some time in the sun…. Laying still and reading my current book, but instead of under a ceiling, I was going to lay outside and take in the wonderful weather!! Eric went over to Matt and Jill’s house to help with landscaping, and I showered and put the dogs away to head there myself…. Sunscreen and book were in purse, I was so close! I thought I’d go to the bathroom one last time and unfortunately had some spotting. This is where the debate came in…. I could head out, spend a few hours in the sun, and THEN call the doctor pretending I just noticed?? Despite my better wishes, I decided against it and called the on-call doctor at my clinic. She of course told me to get to the hospital and have things checked out.
Did I jinx myself with my last post??
11 hours, 4 IV drugs, 3 cervical checks, and 1 hospital admittance later and I’m tucked away for the night at Abbott Northwestern. My contractions have been 4-6 minutes apart all day since being hooked up to the monitors. Ironically, and for better or worse, I’m not feeling these contractions. For you moms out there who remember the pain of contractions, you’re probably thinking I’m lucky! Not that I’m complaining about the lack of feeling, but I wouldn’t classify it as a good thing either… Who knows how long I’ve been having these contractions and how would I ever know if I didn’t happen to be in the hospital for something else?? They register and I see the number registering, but I’m not feeling them. They started with a shot of Tributaline to try and stop the contractions… No luck. They then gave me a dose of Nifedepine…. No luck. Another dose of Tributaline…. Still no stopping them, or even slowing things down 🙁 I was admitted around 4pm where they hurriedly dumped a heavy dose of Magnesium Sulfate into my system hoping that would do the trick. I remember hearing about this from other moms who said they’ve never felt worse in their lives than when they were on the Magnesium Sulfate to stop contractions… The nurses also warned me that I would be tired, short of breath, neaseaus, dizzy, incoherent…. I was scared just thinking about it. Typically these effects all appear within 30 minutes, and I am VERY happy to say that I still feel somewhat decent. They gave me another shot of tributaline about an hour ago, so we’ll see.
We have Internet in the room now, but not sure how often we’ll be able to get on depending on what happens and if we get moved anywhere else. No one seems worried at all about me being at 32 weeks. In fact, the nurses are more excited that I have gone from 21 weeks when this all started to now! They keep saying “Way to go” and telling me how good I’ve done to get this far. In fact, if I was just one week further, they wouldn’t be doing all of this to try and stop the baby from coming…. They’d let me deliver and meet the little guy who so urgently wants out into the world!!
It sounds like I will be here through Monday at least and then we’ll see what happens. I am 1 cm dilated at last check. If the baby can hold on until Monday, we’ll officially be at week 33!