Here he comes..... Let's just say the entrance that this baby is making into this world is a lot more challenging then we ever thought would be. i'll start at the beginning, this last saturday i got up did my normal routine and went to one of my friends baby showers was feeling ok but by the time my mom and i got home around noon i wasn't feeling so good, i was really hot and couldn't seem to cool down, thought that i was dehydrated, i then started to have some slight cramping, so i took that day super easy. The next day on sunday Trav and i stayed home and did nothing again because i was still having some slight cramping. On monday morning i got up and did my usual routine and headed to work, on my way to work i called my doctors office to let them know what was going on i heard back from them at 9:30 and the nurse wanted me to go back home, drink lots and lots of water not get out of bed at all except to go to the bathroom and to get food. I did all of thee above and by 4:30 that afternoon they had gone away except i would get one when i got up to use the restroom. the nurse told me if they start up constant again or if anything else changed i needed to head to labor and delivery and get checked out. well something happened 20 minutes later that i don't think you would want any details on, and i knew that i had to head in. on my way i called trav and told him to meet me at the hospital and i met my mom at her house and she drove me up to the hospital. when i got to labor and delivery the lady that checked me in was not nice at all, she asked me what was going on and i let her know everything and of coarse her next question, in a really snippy voice, is this your first baby? um yes i said, and her response was, oh. like this is your first you have no idea what is going on. by the time she got me back to a room i was in tears. yes people this is my first baby and i have no idea what your body does because guess what ive never experience it before. luckily all of the nurse staff after that has been absolutely so nice and amazing. i was there for a couple of hours, doing some blood work and some swabs to see if i had any infection going on (i did have to get an i.v. and i was so nervous but it totally didn't hurt) :) they then decided to check my cervix, i didn't think anything would be different, but i was dilated to a plus one and 70 percent a-faced, when the nurse said that trav and i looked at each other so surprised, and that happened at about maybe 9:00 pm monday night. then they were just letting me sleep and monitoring the baby, all my labs came back saying that i wasn't showing any sign of infection but that they were just going to keep me over night to keep an eye on me. for what ever reason the monitor would pick up when i was having a contraction, and from 3 to 4 am that morning i was timing my contractions and they were coming every 3 to 4 minutes for that hour so i called the nurse she decided to check me at i didn't think anything would be different but i had dilated to almost a 4, and again trav and i were so dang surprised, and this time the swab she took shoed that i was leaking amniotic fluid, so my water hadn't broke but it was ruptured slightly somewhere, and when that happened the plan totally changed. the doctor came in and said that since my water had ruptured there is such a high rick of infection for me and the baby, and her words were the next time i leave this hospital i will be a mom. they gave me some medicine to stop the contractions for two days to let the steroids they gave me to develop the babies lungs to have a better effect, but after tonight (wednesday) they will take me off of the medicine to stop the contractions and whatever my body wants to do they will just let happen, but if my body can hold off and keep this baby in until i'm 34 weeks which is two more weeks that is best case scenario, and if by some chance i can make it to 34 weeks they will end up taking the baby then anyway because at that point there is a better chance for him outside of the womb then inside. can i tell you these hospital beds are horrible and i have cried a couple times because i just want to go home. but i know this is where i need to be to let out little guy grow as much more as he can inside me. they say that babies that are born at 32 weeks do really really well. he will need to be in the nicu for as long until his heart and lungs and everything looks good, which they say usually only takes a week or two but then after that the way he will be able to go home is if he can feed from a bottle or nursing and gain weight without struggling. the doctor came in this morning and said back when he was a doctor at a hospital in ucla 50 years ago babies that were born at 32 weeks had a 50/50 chance of making it, but now with how medicine and technology has become so amazing he has a 99.9 percent chance of being just fine. obviously there is always that chance that something could happen and he could be here a long time, but i am keeping my hopes high that he will be super strong and won't have to be in the nicu for very long. we have received so much love and support from everyone and i can't thank you all enough for that. i will try and keep things updated on her, sorry this was such a long post but a lot of people wanted to know what happened. and there you have it.
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