Our little scare!

I'm just going to throw out my thoughts once and not proof read this, so please excuse any errors. Here we go.

Things had been going great with this pregnancy. I had a lot of energy and was working hard as usual. We had just gotten through the holidays and had recently even been to Disneyland and the Long Beach Aquarium. Then our baby boy decided he wanted to try to come early. Thursday night 01-01-09 at about 11:00 PM I started having contractions. At first we brushed them off thinking they would go away, but about 3 hours later they were close together (about 3 minutes apart) and I was beginning to feel some pain in my back. I called my doctor. She said for me to go to Long Beach Memorial Hospital since they are better equipped for little babies.

We called my dad and he was able come right over to stay the night with the girls. We checked in to the hospital and they decided to start me on Magnesium (a muscle relaxer). It was a pretty heavy drug. It made me really warm and blurred my vision a little, but it was doing the trick. The contractions were slowing down. They often drew my blood to check for the level of magnesium in me. Slowly they brought down the amount of magnesium, until finally about a day and a half later I was off it completely. During this time they had given me two shots of steroids to push along the baby's lung development as a precautionary step.

Things were looking good. Saturday afternoon, my doctor came to the hospital, wrote me up a prescription for a less intense muscle relaxer and ordered me to bed rest at home. She said for me to stay another 4 hours then I could go. Well, within those 4 hours I started having some contractions again! So, they called my doctor and she said to hold me over night. I was bummed, but was more than willing to do whatever it took to keep the baby safe. So Sunday morning, I was still having just a few contractions like 2 in 3 hours, but my doctor said it would be OK to go home. Yeah, I was SO ready!!! It felt so nice to finally take the IV out of my arm and take the monitors off my tummy. Mike came and got me around noon.

I'm now on strict bed rest and am taking the prescription muscle relaxer every 6 hours. The ultimate goal of course would be to go full term (40 wks.), but the small goal in site is to get through another week and 2 days (34 wks.). My doctor says the lungs are much better developed by that point.

So it is really hard for me to just lay around and not do much, but I understand the importance of it! So Mike is doing A LOT more around the house than normal. Family has been bringing meals. My sister Amy is flying down from Buffalo, New York on Wed. and will stay for a least a week or 2. And friends have been helping with school pick up and drop off. Thanks to everyone for your prayers, help, and support! We are so blessed to have you in our lives! We love you. And baby Blake thanks you too. : )