My Weekend
Well, I was on quite a roll posting every day and I thought I was finally going to have a month where I made my goal, but things conspired against me and that obviously isn't going to happen.
Friday evening I started having contractions and called the doctor who sent me to Labor & Delivery to get checked out. I didn't even realize how MANY contractions I was having but apparently quite a few of them and so they started giving me stuff to get them under control. The big gun in controlling pre-term labor is Magnesium Sulfate - very very nasty stuff which I bet any woman who has ever had to have it will attest to. They tell you that it makes you feel like you have the flu, but I would say it is much worse than that. For me, it didn't make me sick as it does other people, but it did a huge number on my psyche. I felt hopeless and emotional and was just a wreck - I cried every time Mike left. Luckily I only had to be on it for just over 48 hours. A friend of mine was on it for three weeks. UGH. Anyway, they got the contractions under control and switched me to a different medication in pill form, then watched me for about 24 hours and finally let me out of "jail" so I could come home. Home means bedrest until baby comes, but I'd rather be on bedrest in MY bed in MY room in MY house than at the hospital hooked up to IVs and monitors and all that stuff.
Mike is slowing down his work schedule so he can be home to take care of me a lot more which monetarily is not going to be great for us, but somehow we'll manage. Always do. He spent yesterday getting the bedroom set up with a fridge, bed tray to eat on, and of course, one of my computers so I'm not cut off from the world! Anyway, the best part is being home with my hubby and my doggies. Please pray or whatever it is you do that I can stay here until the baby is born.
In other news, due to the gestational diabetes I have started checking my blood sugar 4 times a day. It is totally unnatural to deliberately poke yourself with a needle. WRONG WRONG WRONG I can't wait for all of this to be over (but not until baby has been in there long enough!!!). :)
