It’s been an interesting few days. Blame it on old age (haha), my 3rd pregnancy, and/or taking care of two other roudy boys and a husband, but somehow on Friday, I started having a quite uncomfortable pain on the right side of my belly that also wrapped around to my back. It’s left me sleeping quite uncomfortably at night. Added to the pain were a few more contractions than I felt like were normal for being at 32 weeks.
So the long story short is that we went in to the hospital this morning (doc's orders) so I could be checked out. I was hooked up to a monitor and was having contractions every 5 minutes. Thankfully, I haven’t dilated at all, though my cervix was soft, so Enrique told me. Speaking of Doctor Enrique Saldívar, I haven’t had a male doctor since I went to get on birth control before I got married! It’s been midwives ever since! Boy did I enjoy having to spread for not only my doctor, but also the two residents (a young guy and girl) present and a couple of nurses! Talk about a room-full! I was really wishing Steve & I spoke a 3rd language at that moment so that I could just speak with Steve and get my mind off of it! Instead, I stared around at the ceiling (you know you’ve done the same thing!) just chuckling to myself.
That was followed by being informed that I am on bedrest for a few days. I am also on some lovely suppository medicine that is supposed to stop the contractions. (Do you think it will take away the pain in my side as well? I hope so!) Though I would often like to be done being pregnant, I really do not want to go through having a preemie!
Thank you Jesus that nothing had really progressed!
7 weeks, 6 days and counting……
Toodles,
Heather
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