10:00pm I called Karen, told her what was going on and asked what I should do. Magnesium, Calcium, Big does of Fish Oil, and a warm bath was suggested. I did all the above while Melissa stayed by my side, Craig got some sleep and my parents took Kylie to sleep at their house. Things calmed down and by 11pm I was climbing in bed. At 2am my contractions woke me up :o( and we decided that it was time to head to the hospital and see if I was making cervical change. Karen had suggested this earlier if the contractions didn't stop, but I was not eager to make a trip to visit work. I called ahead to see if we would be waiting for hours in the waiting room, but my charge nurse assured me there would be a room waiting for me and as of right then, no one else was waiting. So Craig and I gathered our things and headed in. It was so very weird to be going to the hospital, with Kylie I was never put on a monitor, never had a vaginal exam (until after she was born), I had never once had any cause for concern or reason to go to the hospital. I was not mentally handling the adventure very well.
Luckily when we got there some of my favorite nurses were working. They were all concerned and knew I was the last person that would show up at the hospital unless I really thought it was necessary. I signed in (weird), got put in a room (weird), opted out of changing in to a hospital gown (would have been way too weird), and waited to be put on the monitors (weird again). The nurse in me couldn't be turned off, I was trying to help with taking my vitals, and putting on the monitors, I couldn't help but watch monitor and critique the baby's heartbeat. I was so worried that they would see something on the monitor that would indicate to them that I should stay and be assessed for longer, all I really wanted was a cervical exam to confirm that nothing was going on ( I had tried to check myself at home, but easier said then done, I was unsure if I even found my cervix). So they checked me, 0/10/-4. Perfect. then took a cervical length, 3.5. Perfect. I stayed on the monitors for another couple hours before they checked me again, no change, yay, and sent us home.
7:00am we were back home, in bed, resting. I was not contracting and feeling much better. We woke up later in the day, Kylie came back home, and Ammie arrived! I headed to yoga while Craig put together a delicious dinner for all of us, Ama, Papa, Ammie, Marta, Mommy, Daddy and Ky. It was a delicious, wonderful family dinner. But again around 8:30 I started to contract. Part of my thinks is has to do with the huge full moon and the eclipse that happened last night, but who knows. So I took my supplements, got back in the bath and this time they disappeared all together, yay. We went to bed and Craig (Superman/super-dad/super-husband) got up every time Kylie woke, he walked her and got her back to sleep so I would not have to get up or nurse her. We both had to be up early this morning to teach clinicals and I know he was just exhausted, but he powered through, he is such an amazing man. I made it through most of the day with just a few contractions, Ammie has been taking care of everything around the house and making meals so I can just put my feet up.
We had an apt with Karen this afternoon at 4pm and everything went well. The baby is in good position, moving well, heartbeat sounds good and I was not contracting. She gave me some suggestions for herbs to take and we plan on getting them tomorrow. I taught another child birth class tonight and felt really good. I came home, had a little snack and sat down to write without any more contractions, thank goodness! Bed time now, breastfeeding group tomorrow, but I think I am going to try and take it easy for the rest of the week, i am planning to stop working my 12 hour shifts (I feel like those cause me the most stress) and maybe decrease the other teaching and dancing for the next couple weeks, we don't want this baby to come early, we have three weeks to go!
Our next apt with Karen will be the 36week home visit, I can't believe we are already at this point in the pregnancy, it has gone SO fast. Now that the baby is head down, the movement is very much like Kylie was, it's really fun to feel the baby stretch and have hiccups. I am still having issues with my varicose veins, swelling and feeling very full like my food could come up at any minute, not fun, but what can you do :o)
Kylie had a very big day today, including a long adventure with Ammie, rescuing a small furry animal and opening conderful birthday gifts from Ammie and the rest of the family. I will have to write tomorrow all about her adventures and post some of the sweet photos.
Bedtime now, good night.
-Nat
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| This is when they told me I could go home, otherwise I was not actually this happy to be on the monitors at work :o) |
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| Baby is growing, this photo is at 33 weeks and a few days. |
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