Oh what a week its been. In my silly little almost 9 month pregnant brain I truly thought I'd have this baby by now, but nope SJ has other idea's. I started having erratic contractions on Wednesday after my massage. They were all over the place but didn't go away and were uncomfortable. They continued all of Wednesday night, all of Thursday and again on Thursday night. By Friday morning they were getting worse and I had only gotten about 4 hours sleep in total over the past 2 days. So I woke up at 6:00 and said we're going into the hospital cause something has got to give! We got to the hospital at 7:30 and since I'm GBS (group B strep) positive, they had to put in a IV to administer the antibiotics. Well the first 2 attempts ruptured my blood vessels, and boy did they hurt! Thankfully the nurse went and got someone else who did a better job on the 3rd attempt lol. So here I was all hooked up to the fetal monitors and contraction monitor and had 3 extra holes in my hands. But oh I was ready to have that baby! Both Pat and I were excited about bringing him home hopefully the next day! Then I noticed the contraction monitor hadn't recorded anything since the whole IV fiasco. So we watched and waiting... NOTHING!! Dr. Keller came in around 8:00 and checked everything out, but I hadn't dilated anymore and baby wasn't engaged anymore :( So they told me to wait an hour and gave me the antibiotics for the GBS. So we went home without a baby.
The good thing was I slept for 3 hours on Friday afternoon and have had a good night sleep ever since. The sleep was truly a life saver because I was so tired and in the worst of moods I couldn't imagine how poor Pat and Alex could have survived another day with me lol. So after some serious days of throwing myself a pity party I decided to get over it and try to be patient.
I had another prenatal again this afternoon and was reassured by Dr. Keller that if I made it till the next appointment he would attempt some "stuff". And if that didn't work and I made it to the next week we would then talk about induction. So I feel better knowing that in 2 weeks this will for sure be all done and over with lol.
One really good thing to come out of all this false labor is our attitude. When we were sitting in the hospital, waiting, we were calm, relaxed and even joking around. We knew what was coming and that it was going to suck, but we weren't focusing on that. Our focus was finally meeting Joseph and having him complete our family. It was really comforting to have that too look forward to and not be too scared of the labor to come.
So other than our Friday morning drama, everything is going as it should and we will again be hoping and praying that this week is our week and we will get to take our baby home soon. Oh and before I forget, one more reason I wanted so badly for SJ to be born last week was, now you're going to laugh, I can't spell February. Every time I go to write it I have to look it up on a calendar or spell check it. So I figured it would be much easier if he was born in January so I wouldn't spell it wrong one day soon and embarrass myself! There I've admitted it to the world so I'm absolved and cannot be held responsible for my future spelling infractions!
Hope you all have a wonderful first week of February (I just looked on my calendar when I was typing that ;P)
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