I will start with some background info--this last week (Monday-Thursday) I have had a bit of a low grade fever (around 99.5-100.4). I went to the doctor for my weekly apt and she told me to rest, drink fluids and take tylenol. I tried to do all that and when I take the tylenol the fever went away but once it wears off my fever comes back. I felt a little uncomfortable with the fever but luckily it isn't a full blown flu or anything.
On Thursday, I had to miss work because of the fever. I was at home and started to notice some contractions. I started to time them and they were about 7 minutes apart the first hour. They didn't hurt but I could feel something happening. By the second hour they were around 4 minutes apart and sometimes became a bit uncomfortable. John had a really busy day at work and I didn't want to call him out of work if I just had to go to the hospital and get hooked up to a machine for an hour, so I called my Mom to have her take me to labor and delivery (since that is what the doctor told me to do if the contractions were for that time period for that long).
When I got to labor and delivery it was about noon. I had to give urine and blood. The urine showed I had ketones in it and that I was dehydrated. The baby monitors showed I was having contractions about every 2.5 minutes--still not really painful just a bit uncomfortable. The nurse also checked me out (you know....down there....) and said I was dilated to a 2.5 and about 70% effaced. So what ended up happening was I got hooked up to 2 liters of IV fluids and had to have a shot to stop the contractions. By 3:00 I was ready to go home--the contractions slowed pretty much to a stop. I was told I can still work (no bed rest or anything) but I need to try to rest if I can by putting my feet up, relaxing my pelvis and to make sure to drink a lot of water.
Things have been going well since then....I did lose my mucus plug yesterday (sorry...I know that might be TMI for some people but I want to remember how the process is going that is why I wrote it down).
I have been trying to rest but also trying to enjoy some last minute time with John and Liam before this new little one comes--I am so excited to meet him and John even said, "It feels like Christmas!" since we know the baby is right around the corner--but I am trying to still enjoy being pregnant and not hurry up the process too much! :)
John's family has started in on a pool as to when the baby will will be born--John thinks today at 4:30pm and I think April 25 at 11:00pm and everyone else falls in the middle of the week somewhere. What do you think? My goal is to get some work finished up and meet with my substitute and then I will feel like I am more able to be focused on having a baby but if he comes earlier then I will be so excited too! :)
I spent this morning doing last minute things to the nursery, John is outside doing yard work--I think that is his form of nesting right now, and Liam is putting his teddy bears in the baby swing and practicing swinging them saying "baby." We are all getting ready and so happy for this time in our life!
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