30-11-2010 - Update 35 Weeks Tomorrow

My mood while writing this blog: Worn Out

Well, it is interesting to see what is going on here these last few days. Saturday I woke up with contractions – and they weren’t BH either! I felt pain in my stomach all morning, top and bottom, and as I got closer to the afternoon they started to come from my lower back around to my stomach. They were from 2 to 6 minutes apart, and really starting to hurt. So I took a bath, because every time I have had BH, they go away after a bath. Not this time. It was starting to get painful to even walk around. So I drank a glass of water and it made me throw up just a few minutes later (TMI, I threw up EVERYTHING I had drank all day after that one glass of water!). I laid down on the floor and slept for about 20 minutes, then got in the bed for a bit while Chathum napped. The contractions were still coming on strong, thought maybe 6 -15 minutes apart. Now they were MORE painful. I called my mom around 3 and asked if she would watch Chathum so I could go to the hospital, because again, drinking water was making me feel so sick. She came and got him and took him to her house to spend the night (his first sleepover ever! OMG!) and Chat drove me to the hospital before he went to work.

So, I got IVs because I was dehydrated (duh). After the second bag of fluid started, they were going to see if my contractions had calmed down. Well, they didn’t, so I got a shot of terbutaline to stop them. I laid there for what seemed like forever, probably 4 or more hours, and the next nurse stopped in and let me know that the doctor had ordered a second shot of terbutaline because the first one plus fluids still wasn’t stopping the contractions. (which I knew, hello, I can feel them!) So right before midnight I got my second shot. For those who don’t know, those shots are the WORST! First, the burn something fierce when you get them. Second, they make you shake, hot, sick, dizzy, tired but can’t sleep, restless, heart races, and everything else under the sun. It’s beyond awful. And I got TWO OF THEM! For most people, the side effects go away after an hour, but lucky me, they last for THREE HOURS or better.

Well, on top of all of that, I wasn’t allowed to have anything to drink til the doctor okayed it. I wasn’t given any food (not that I was hungry anyway, even though I hadn’t eaten a bite all day) because I guess the chance the contractions wouldn’t stop. I had to wait 4 hours just to get a Tylenol for my back pain. They gave me a muscle relaxer for my back when it was still hurting so bad, which only helped for like an hour. Finally they decided I could go on home since I was down to having just one contraction an hour. Chat came to pick me up at 3am, and they sent me home after giving me an Ambien hoping it would help me sleep.

So, that is the hospital mess. I went to the doctor yesterday to follow up and she mentioned that if I have another episode of contractions like that, or if I am getting 6+ an hour, then she will take me off work a week and see if that helps it. She checked me and I am still closed, not dilated at all, so that makes her optimistic that things will be fine. If I start contracting and start dilating, she’ll take me off work til 37 weeks (which is only 2 weeks away).

I noticed later in the day yesterday that I had barely been peeing anything at all, even after 2 ½ bags of IV fluids in the hospital. And yesterday I had drank well over 60 oz of water and hardly any pee was coming out when I peed. So I went to the Urgent Care thinking I could possibly have a bladder infection or kidney infection (lower back pain, mid-back pain, hardly peeing even though drinking TONS of water, orange pee, etc.). Well, that wasn’t it either. But I am glad I checked, because I know that infections can cause premature labor, and neither the hospital nor my doctor’s office took a urine sample.

So, now here it is Tuesday, and ever since Saturday I have felt sick. Kind of like flu symptoms. I am extremely tired all the time. I feel sick after every thing I drink or eat. I hardly have an appetite at all. I have the WORST heartburn ever too. My back still ends up killing me towards the end of the day. Now, I notice I am having a hard time walking because my pelvic area is super sore and it hurts to walk! I am thinking she could have dropped? I don’t know though since Chathum never really did. I know I am also having a harder time breathing. My stomach continues to get rock hard, though the contractions with back pain only come at night. I just don’t know if this is me being sick or if this is labor signs? I don’t know! UGH! I am just ready for a nap and I can’t think anymore, LOL.