Soooo my last post was absolutely ages ago! I'm sooo horrible about starting a journal or other project and letting it drop. I have somewhat of an excuse, but not really because all I've had on my hands since mid-February has been time! A luxury that is truly bittersweet.
In the early morning hours on February 15th I woke up with horrible cramping pain in my lower back. I got out of bed and moved downstairs to see if it would subside because it was keeping me awake. Well, three hours later they were full blown contractions. Being only 27 weeks pregnant at the time I tried to stay calm and call my doctors' nurse line. They had the doctor on call paged and call me back to investigate the situation. He told me to come to the hospital to get everything settled.
An hour later we were there and an ultrasound revealed that my cervix had begun to efface and needed to be stopped in its tracks to keep me from having the baby. I felt sure before hearing this that these pains were normal pregnancy things and I was being a nervous first timer. Wrong! Deep down I knew something wasn't right. Always trust your instincts.
So basically three days later I got to go home after the doctors had stopped my pre term labor and things were stable. I have been on bed rest since then, however. I was ordered to stop working and stay in a bed or lay on a couch until the imminent threat of another bout of pre term labor was gone.
So for the next four weeks I was really bed rest ridden. My only outings were to the weekly doctors appointments. Finally the doctor gave me the ok to go out to eat or to a movie. Which translated to I can go anywhere as long as I sit down.
Well that worked until I developed pregnancy hypertension (pregnancy induced high blood pressure). So then they told me to take it easy still, and that they reeeally wanted me to get to at least 36 weeks.
So here I am, 35 weeks and 3 days pregnant. Baby Ethan is approximately 5 lbs, 13 oz and out of the danger zone. I'm off of the medication to stop contractions, so realistically labor could happen at any moment. I'm so incredibly ready to have him and be off of bed rest and live the rest of my life in utter happiness. I'm ready for the rest of my life to begin.
So basically I've had tons of time to write in this blog, but haven't felt like I have anything to write about until now. Nothing has been missed, just a whole lot of bed rest and too much time to think!
In other news my bonus room/closet is still a wreck. I've gotten every other room in the house ready for baby and all clean and organized except that one. I need a serious push in the tush! No more excuses now! Maybe cleaning it will induce labor. I'll *try* and keep things posted!
