Hospital stays are no fun

So Sunday night Steven and I went to the emergency room because I had been spotting all weekend. We left the house at around 1 and we're in bed by 5 a.m. They checked me and did a bunch of stuff and decided that I had a bladder infection AND that I'm dialated a cm already. For those of you who don't know much about pregnancy things, when you are in labor they want you to be dialated 10cm, so 1cm doesnt seem like a lot... except that I'm 29 weeks and a full term pregnancy is 41 weeks. So I still have 11 weeks to go and begin dialated 1cm all the way through isn't a good thing at this point. Anyway, they gave me medicine for the bladder infection that I have to take for the next two weeks and sent me home. Easy, painless hospital stay... wasn't even a stay really, just a visit.

So We're back! I had to call my doctor the next day and let her know that I was at the hospital and let her know what they said. So she and I made an appointment for Tuesday at 3:30 so she could check me herself and see what's she thought. So Tuesday morning I was a work and I bled a lot so I called and she told me to come right in. I hurried as fast as I could and tried to stay as calm as I could and made it to her in one peice. The baby measured exactly where she needed to be (28.6 weeks) and they checked the placenta to make sure that it hadn't detached at all and it hadn't. Everything looked perfect as it always had before. She checked me and said I was a cm dialated and that my cervix was pretty soft (too soft for her to be comfortable) so she wanted me to take these steriod shots (there were 2 of them). The shots help Annberlynne's lungs and brain develop so that if for some crazy reason she decides to make her entrance early she has the lung and brain capacity to survive. Dr. Carter said that after 28 weeks 90% of all premies go on to have no long term damage so we're at least in a clear(er) zone. Idealy we want to make it to AT LEAST 34 weeks.

Anyway, Dr. Carter told me she wanted to observe me for a few more hours so she sent me over to labor and delivery and had me hooked up to a monitor and IV. After being on the monitor for a while they noticed that I was having some contractions called irritability. They are not real labor contractions but Dr. Carter doesn't want there to be any because after enough irritability contractions they may turn into real contractions. So she checked my cervix again and I hadn't dialated anymore but there was some bleeding so she told me she wanted me to stay over night so she cold watch me some more. I've been on an IV and pain killers since she saw me last and it has helped me not have any more of those irritability contractions. I had some this morning but my medicine had also worn off, so I was given more and haven't had any since. I took one of those steriod shots in the butt yesterday and it wasn't bad at all but I took the other today in the other hip and I wanna cry! She hit a nerve. I remember talking in my anatomy class about how many nerves run over your butt muscles and how it's pretty common to hit one when taking a shot on your butt cheek. So I'm planning on being sore there for a few days... good thing I have some ice packs at home.

So I've been here almost 30 hours and I'm so totally ready TO GO HOME!! I can't get up and walk, this bed is not really that comfy (my back is KILLING ME!). The only really great thing about being here is that 1) my dad came up from Muskogee to visit and I was so happy to see him (even if I'm too grumpy to express it right now), and 2) Steven has been super boyfriend and done everything about as perfectly as possible. It's been amazing. He's tried really hard. So ya, now I'm just waiting to go home. I'm more than ready. I don't wanna have a preterm baby. Everyone needs to tell her to stay in there for a few more weeks!! But I also hope I don't have to stay in the hospital again until it's time to hold my daugher in my arms.