Friday, April 24, 2009

Friday at the hospital...

This morning, what I thought would be a normal Friday, didn't turn out that way. I had a lot planned today, as did Mike who was off work. We had some reading tests to complete, had our big sock hop 5th grade party tonight at school, and then was headed to a friend's birthday party. It was around 9 am this morning and I was having contractions...that hurt....and they were about 7-10 minutes apart. I called my doctor after a few teachers told me to. My doctor told me to head on in to the hospital to get checked out since it had been over 40 minutes of me having these pains. I call Mike to come get me, throw some sub plans together, and head on out. We arrive at the hospital and sure enough, there are real live contractions. At first, I didn't want to call and be that "first time mom" who wasn't sure if there were braxton hicks or the real deal. They hooked me up to a monitor for awhile to track them and make sure the baby was okay. After 40 minutes or so, they called my doctor to see what he wanted to do. My contractions were irregular but were about 2 minutes apart, so he wanted the nurse to give me a shot to stop/lighten the contractions. We waited another hour to see if that helped. I am not sure the name of the shot/medicine, but man, I felt like I was on drugs...I was SO jittery, my hands were shaking and my heart was racing. After an hour I was still having contractions just not as painful and not as regular. My doctor wanted me to have another shot, so I had another hour of waiting with a racing heart and shaky hands. When we finally left, the pains and contractions were really low and things looked good, so they sent me home with a prescription to take every 6 hours until I see the doctor next Tues. So...nothing for me tonight....just my couch, laptop, and maybe a movie. The good news is that Evan is still cooking away! :) Hope your weekend is starting off well!

4 comments:

Laura said...

Wow Kasey! Glad to hear you are home resting. Does the doctor think Evan's trying to come early? Take care!!!

jenny said...

ooh geesh! i'm glad things got settled down and evan is still cooking away! hope you have a good night.

lina said...

Just try to take it easy Kasey.. Hope you get the rest you need!

Michelle Leigh said...

Oooh, I had terbutaline plenty of times with Bennett and had to take those pills daily, they make your heart beat fast and make you loopy! I'm glad to hear things are fine. Hopefully you can make it another couple of weeks!