Well....we've had a crazy few days to say the least. This past weekend started off really good. Mommy and Daddy spent most of Saturday down in San Clemente with some friends watching the Belmont Stakes and cheering on California Chrome. I wish you could have seen this horsey with us. He is beautiful. Unfortunately he lost the race and didn't get to claim the triple crown that he was chasing but it was so exciting to watch. That night we got home after doing a little BBQ at Joel's house and we kind of just relaxed. It was really a great day. Then Sunday came around......
I woke up on Sunday not exactly feeling right. The further into this pregnancy with you the more in tuned I've become with the things that are going on with my body. Mommy knew that something just wasn't feeling right. You were moving around a lot, which is good, and wasn't too much of the issue, but I was having a lot of pressure for pretty much the whole day. I just became really, really uncomfortable. I ended up going to bed pretty early after a bath to try and relax, of course only to not sleep the whole night. When I woke up to go to work on Monday I still just didn't really feel right.
We weren't supposed to go in and see mommy's doctor till next week Monday so I decided to call them and check in to see if what was going on was anything that I should be worried about. My doctor ended up not being there so we had to wait for a call back from the nurse to see what they wanted us to do. The doctor ended up getting in touch with her on call backup at the hospital and they decided that we needed to make a trip to the hospital to get checked out. I immediately got really scared and tried to back track and tell the nurse, "no no no, I'm ok, I mean it's not that bad". I just really wasn't expecting to have to go to the hospital.
Then the call to daddy. I tried to not be emotional when I called him but it was really hard. I really was so scared and at the same time didn't want him to worry. We decided that he was going to come down and meet me at the hospital. Come to find out before he left the office, daddy got the jitters for sure! He said before he left he walked around in a couple circles forgetting something he was trying to do before he left and even got the shakes a bit. Typically first time daddy stuff I'm sure :)
We made it to the hospital and they got me hooked right up to the monitors. The monitors have two functions. Monitoring your heart rate and monitoring if mommy was having any contractions. It was actually really soothing to be able to sit there and hear your heart beat the whole time we were there. Anytime I got really nervous I just tuned everything else out and just listened to you and it helped. It turns out that the second part of that, the contraction monitor, well mommy was having contractions about 5 minutes apart. Not all of them were really bad, {painful} but there definitely were some that I felt more than others. Daddy was adamantly watching the monitor for a while and letting me know when one was coming. He did such a good job telling me to breathe and making sure that I was ok.
The nurse ended up doing a couple of tests on me to figure out more about what was going on. The one test was to see if there was a protein leaking that could tell us if we were going to be going into labor anytime soon and the other was just checking out mommy's inside stuff to see if it could tell them if we were expecting you soon as well. We had to wait a while for the first test and since my contractions hadn't really slowed down they decided to give me a shot to try and calm that down. It didn't really help and about 2 hours later I think it was, we got another. By that time the backup doctor arrived and went through all the stuff that had been going on and basically told us what we had to expect. If the test came back negative we'd get to go home but if it was positive we'd be staying for a while. Maybe a couple days. That really scared me because he started talking more about you.
Basically if you were to come soon within the next few days they would have wanted to give me some steroid shots to help your lung development. Most likely if you arrived now they wouldn't fully be ready and you'd get sent up to the NICU. It seriously scared the crap out of me and made me realize as much as I want you here now, selfishly, because I'm over being pregnant, you need to stay put in there a little while longer. Mommy and daddy just aren't ready for you yet.
Luckily we got a negative result back from the test but the doctors did decide that it was time for mommy to start relaxing and resting a lot more. I'm not allowed to go to work this week and most likely it will just be me and you chilling at home with your fur brother until you arrive. So you just keep hanging out in there and mommy is going to do her best to rest and make sure that I do everything I can to keep you safe and sound till you're really ready. I still am so anxious to meet you and see your little face, but I can wait a little longer.
Love you bunches baby girl!
xoxo
Mommy
PS...I've told you this before but last night when we got home your daddy did something that made me fall even more in love with him and made me realize even more how excited he is to be your daddy and that he can't wait to meet you too. I really can't wait to see you two together.
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