Heading Into Labor and Delivery

I'm heading to L&D. I've been cramping on and off since yesterday but this afternoon they have gotten alot worse. The ob told me on Thursday if they got like I had them on Tuesday then to come in. So here we go. I won't have a computer there so If I go missing for a while you know what happened. I will update as soon as we get back home.

I Am So Frusterated

I went to the doctor today and I am so upset to what happened. They checked to see if I was any farther and I am now 4 cm dilated and 75% effaced. They almost kept me in and then decided not to. The reason I am so upset is because for the last 3 days I have been having really bad cramping. No contractions but cramping. Obviously the cramping is doing something because I was still 2.5 cm and 50%. And when they put me on the monitor after my appt I had 2 contractions that I didn't even feel. I am 2 1/2 hrs away from the hospital, I cannot just hop over there if my contractions start coming every 5 to 10 mins apart. Which is when they want me to come in. When I get to that point I don't want to be driving that far, especially if it happens during rush hour traffic. So Teressa and I have talked and If I start to feel cramps like I had yesterday I'm going in and not letting them release me. I think it's just to risky at this point.

5 Days to Go

I have 5 days left until I go to the hospital to be induced! So close now. This last week and a half has been going so slow its not even funny. lol. We go to the doctor tomorrow for my last appointment and my last NST. I have been very crampy the last 2 days and I can tell that she has dropped alot as well. Maybe, just maybe, she might come on her own before Monday. Though I have not been having any contractions as far as I can tell.

1 Week To Go!

This time next week I will be in the hospital and be laboring to have this little peanut! We just cannot wait. I had my NST today and Aydan just did not want to move around. On the NST's they need at least 3 to 4 heart accelerations with movement. After 20 minutes she still had not moved at all so the tech had to jostle my stomach. Let me tell you, she did not like that at all! She went crazy after that and would not stop moving till they took her off the machine 10 minutes later. It was really kinda funny. I was able to find out information at my last doctors appointment that made me happy. I will be able to use the laboring ball and tub to help with pain relief. I did not know if I would be able to with me having hep. B. (lovely present from my druggie birth mother) But I was told that I could use it as long as it is available. (they only have 1) I am really hoping to be able to labor with no pain meds and with as little medical intervention as poss. I will have to have an IV due to the GD. I will have to have insulin throughout labor and I am going to be induced as well. This should be all the interventions I will have to have.

9 More Days

If I do not go into labor on my own I am scheduled to be induced on Sept. 21st. That's only 9 days away!! I will be exactly 39 weeks and the only reason I will be induced is because of the GD. The little peanut is not to big but they worry about the placenta waring out. We are so hoping that I go into labor on my own.

37 Weeks and Maternity Pics

We have made it full term now!! How exciting! But can I now say..... Aydan oh Aydan you are free to come out now! lol. It's not that I am done being pregnant because I love being pregnant. But I am so ready for her to come and to be a mommy. I knew when I went into pre-term labor and they stopped it she was not going to come when I got off bed rest. And here it is 2 and a half weeks later and she is still snug inside. I have noticed that she has dropped down some. I feel so much pressure down there its not even funny. I feel as though I am walking around with a bowling ball between my legs.

Alot has been going on here since my last post. Which is the reason for the absence. Teressa and I currently live in a 3 bedroom house with Teressa's parents. They are both disabled and Teressa takes care of them while I am at work. Now they can get around and do things but both are unable to drive and cannot do alot of things around the house. So that's were we come in. We do all the shopping and taking care of the house work for them. But Teressa's brother and sister-in-law recently fell on hard times. Her brother lost his job and was unable to get another one. They lost their home they were living in and moved back here. (They lived out of state.) They and their 2 kids moved in here. It's been a little crazy getting things situated what with 4 more people in the house but we are doing ok and it hasn't been too bad. As of right now brother and wife and 1 child are living in the camper outside and the other child is sleeping in the baby's room.

I also had a maternity shoot this last week. I only have a few of the pics as of right now but when I get the rest I will post those. I think they came out ok considering I hate having my picture taken and I think I am way to big. And I am not talking about my pregnant belly I mean myself before that. But here they and they do include my face. So i am unveiling more of myself here on my blog.

35 Weeks And 3 Days

We are so close to the 36 week mark! We went to the doctor yesterday and everything is still the same. That makes us very happy! I am no longer on bed rest and as of Monday I can go back to work. I cannot lift and I need to be able to sit down frequently but as I work at a day care that will not be difficult. I will only be on call. When they need me, they will call me. Other then that I will not be working. Even if I only work a little bit a week that will be good. Financially we did not plan on me being out of work for 3 1/2 months. Only the 6 weeks. Oh at our doctor visit we found out I cannot donate my cord blood. That was a disappointment. Because of a blood thing I have it makes me ineligible. I will be starting my 2 week visits next week and I will also get to see the little peanut on Monday to see how much bigger she has gotten in the last 4 weeks.

34 Weeks

We have now made it to 34 weeks! It just seems like every day is such an achievement. We go to the doctor on Wednesday and here is to hoping that nothing has changed. The laptop doesn't have much battery so I'm going to end this post with pictures of what I have been up to this last week. I have crochet a sweater and 3 dresses as well as a little hat and only 1 booty so far. I will make a matching hat and booties for the other 2 dresses.

Sweater

Pink Dress

Purple and Multicolored Dress

Blue and Green Dress

Blue and Green Hat and Booty

33 Weeks and 3 Days

Im 33 weeks and 3 days now. Our next goal is only 2 weeks and 4 days. If our little peanut stays put til then, then I will be allowed to walk around. No going back to work but I don't have to stay in bed. We went to my doctors appointment yesterday and nothing has changed. I'm still 2.75 dilated and 50% thinned and she is still high up. I will be checked again next Wednesday. Peanut is growing good measuring on target. I on the other hand lost 5 lbs in a week. I don't know how that happened because all I do is eat. My gestational diabetes is doing so-so. I was put on insulin just at night but yesterday it was upped and I now take it before lunch in addition to before dinner. Not doing to bad on bed rest. I crocheted a little sweater and it turned out really cute. I will def. take a pic and post it later.

Pre-Term Labor and Bed Rest

So much has happened since I had my shower at work and I have not been able to tell yall. The weekend after my shower at work I had my shower with family and friends and it was just wonderful! We received lots of great things and cute little clothes. Unfortunately I have no pictures to show you of everything because of what happened next. I went in on Wednesday for my doctor's appointment and right before that I started bleeding very red blood. They sent me straight to Labor and Delivery and hooked me up to the machines. Turns out I'm having small but frequent contractions. They check my cervix and I am dilated to 1. I am monitored for a while longer and am still contracting. I don't feel them but I see them on the monitor. They checked me again and I am now dilated to 2.75. They then hurry up and put me on meds to stop the contractions and also start giving me steroid shots to help her lungs out just in case. After about 3 hours on the medication to stop them, the contractions finally stop. They checked my cervix often but no change has happened since. I spent the next 5 days in the hospital being checked and monitored. On Friday they stopped the medication and watched me for a whole 24 hours to make sure they did not start up again. They didn't. I was able to come home on bed rest on Sunday. So home in bed is where I will be til I am 36 weeks, at which point I will be given alittle more freedom. I am 2.75 centimeters dilated and 50% thinned out. We just want this little one to stay put a little longer.