Still Pregnant!

Well I guess there's just a ton of things to update about now. Sadly, I don't know how much energy I have, so I might have to do this in sections. That, and there's just so much going on, I don't think I can compute it all at once.

After my DR appointment on Monday I went home and thought about all that was said and decided to go to the store and get me some things to pack a hospital bag for myself.

Tuesday morning my DR's office called and asked me to keep my appointment with them so that they can give me my 2nd steroid shot, monitor the baby, and do another ultrasound. After the appointment they wanted me to go straight the hospital to be admitted. Not just any hospital, the one with the best Neonatal Intensive Care Unit for preemies. It's quite far from home. The nurse said they would have a room reserved for me.

When I arrived, they didn't have a room for me. They had reserved it, but they got overloaded, so I had to sit in the hallway on monitors for a while and they wouldn't give me water at first because they didn't have any orders for me, ugh.

Eventually they moved me into a nice sized room and asked the gazillion admitting questions as my husband sat anxiously waiting to leave. He had a karaoke event with some people in his company that was a lot more fun than watching me be admitted to the hospital or going home to assure the children that Daddy is there for them when they're worried about Mommy. Okay I think I laid the guilt trip on bad enough. I really didn't need him there, but I did expect him to be with the children that night. Even though he got home after the children were already in bed he still made sure he spent time with them, and last night he did some special and fun stuff with them too.

The DR's have orders for me to take insulin, I'm also on a diabetic diet here. They've drawn about 25 tubes of blood on me since I got here and say it will be sometime next week before they have the results. They said the tests they're running right now are to determine whether or not to start me on blood thinners. They give me two Ambien pills at night to sleep. They've also provided me with a breathing machine for night time for people with Aleep Apnea, which I apparently have as well. I got the machine delivered to my room last night, but I chickened out and didn't use it.

The DRs are writing orders so that the hospital staff will provide my blood pressure medications. I am also allowed to ask for Pepcid when needed for heartburn. I was told an Orthopedic would be requested to get me a steroid shot in my wrist for my carpal tunnel syndrome, but I was also warned that could be a very long wait (days - weeks). I am also to receive a heating pad for my bed to help my back pain. Although I don't know what the hold-up is for that, it seems simple enough.

I have "bathroom privileges" which means I am not hooked up to all kinds of junk and I can use the restroom and shower without help or permissions. Yeah!

They said they were going to send a Dietician to come speak with me today and also someone from NICU is supposed to come and explain the statistics for preemies and things like that to me.

They monitor the baby often here. About 4x per day for about an hour each time. I think it is called the non-stress test or NST.

Little Johny is a mover and a shaker and momma-belly-acher lol. He's doing really great and he's very active!

The last two days I had a large room here, but they moved me this morning from the labor and delivery side to the side where the women who have already given birth are. I'm not sure why, but that's where I am now. The room is a little smaller, but it has a nicer bathroom and there's a chest of drawers in the room to store all my junk in.

It is really hard being so far from home and my family. It's even harder when I think about how either I will be here during the holidays without them, or I will be with them and our new baby will be here alone instead.

They are keeping me until I deliver. The DR said that if he's born before 35 weeks he will definitely be staying here longer than me. I don't know how to handle all of this. I have to stay as relaxed as I can though, because my high blood pressure is one of the reasons we're in this mess right now as it is.

So the goal here is to monitor my health and try to keep me healthy enough to keep little Johnny inside of me until he's ready.

Please pray for us!