Bringin the New Year in with a BANG!

I guess since I am home now, I should let everyone know what has been going on exactly with us so far this year!

Today is my first day home from St. Mark's Hospital, where they took great, great care of me :) Monday, after work, I was walking to my car, and slipped on the ice, falling backwards. It didn't hurt too much and I just went about my day. When Andy got home, he made me call my dr office. So, I did, told them I fell and the next thing I know, Andy and I are heading to the hospital for monitoring. I wasn't hurting from the fall, just a little pain on my right side, it felt like just some stretching. Well, when we got to Labor and Delivery, they hooked me up to some monitors and noticed I was contracting. Two nurses and the on call doctor checked me out, discovering I had dialated TWO centimeters and am about 60% effaced. I couldn't believe it. I couldn't even feel the contrations. After about 2 hours, the on call doctor came in and said they wanted to admit me for over night, and let my doctor check me in the morning. So, I was admitted. They hooked me up to an IV, with magnesium solfate, which is a drug that knocks you completely off your butt and stops labor. I was on that all night, along with an antibiotic and IV fluids, bed rest, not even getting up to go to the bathroom, oh and the blood pressure cuff, going off about every hour, along with a heart monitor for Will and a contraction monitor for me. They also set the bed up in case Will did come and notified NICU, just in case. I am only 33 weeks along, if Will came that early, he'd be in the NICU for about 2-3 weeks, due to low birth weight and little lung developement. They went ahead and gave me two steriod shots, which help speed up lung developement in the baby, just in case. Well, the mag. sulfate was not working the way they wanted it too. I was still contracting and I wasn't feeling them very much. They gave me a shot of morphine which can sometimes work miracles and stop contractions, and it worked mostly!
The next morning, when my doctor came to check me, I had dialted to a 3 1/2 and am about 65% effaced. I stayed on the mag sulfate for another night, and I was able to get off it and just take the antibiotic. The contractions have pretty much stopped. I have them occassionally, when it's about time for me to take my pill, which I have to take every 8 hours, to hold off labor, and when my bladder gets full...which is about every 30-45 minutes because Will has dropped so low. My doctor is hoping I can make it to at least 35 weeks before I give birth. Hopefully longer, but 35 weeks, there are much less complications. And he won't have to stay in the NICU for quite as long. Andy has been SO great! He would rub my feet, my hands (until they were too pricked and poked that they bruised) my back, took care of helping me go to the bathroom, everything. I was in the hospital until about noon today, and I am on bed rest until I deliver. Only getting up to use the bathroom and shower. Our family and friends have been so great and we are so incredibly grateful for all the thoughts and prayers. The Lord truly has blessed us and we see all the blessings each day.