T-5 Days...

5 days until I actually get to see the inside of something other than my house, car, the hospital, or the doctor's office!!! I get to go out to dinner on Friday! I am so thrilled and very much looking forward to our little adventure! I am going to eat so slowly so as to enjoy the outing for a longer time :)

Friday night we ended up at the hospital for 6 hours. The first 3 were spent in the ER due to more pain in my left leg. My OB wanted to check for a blood clot again. We got there at 7:00 p.m. and finished up around 10:00 p.m. Just when we thought we were being discharged, the doctor came in and said that my OB wanted me to head up to L&D to monitor the baby for a few mins to make sure she was okay. So up we went...thinking that nothing was going to be wrong. Well with this pregnancy, we definitely should have known better. Sure enough, they hooked me up to the heart monitor and the contractions monitor, and lo and behold I was contracting every 3 minutes. I could definitely feel them, but being as I have never been pregnant before, I had no idea they were true contractions. After eating a sandwich and drinking some water they gave me an injection of terbutaline to stop the contractions and it worked! It worked almost immediately. However, my body didn't not like the terbutaline and I began to feel sick and very very dizzy. The nurse came in and my heartrate had dropped from around 100 to around 70 in a matter of seconds. They also checked my blood pressure and it too was low. So they laid me down and within a few minutes I was feeling better. After 3 hours of being in L&D, they sent us home around 1:00 a.m. with instructions to begin antibiotics the following morning for a UTI.

For now, we are stable. Never fun though to add yet another medication to my daily routine. I have had a few contractions on and off this weekend, but nothing major like Friday night. I still think that once I go off the contraction prevention medications and the pessary come out (at 36 weeks), she will come in to the world shortly after. I am completely okay with that!!! I am ready to see my little miracle baby. I want to hold her and tell her how much stress she has already caused mommy and daddy :)