Just A Little Update...

Well, it's been an interesting 30 something hours- I woke up early Sunday morning, around 3:30am with some pretty strong braxton hicks- not unusual for me. I had them with both Cerys and Bailey and even stronger this time around. Anyway, they seemed more intense and lower on my belly, so I just tried to go back to sleep. Didn't really sleep much. Sunday morning we had already planned to go to IKEA to get some things we needed, so we went ahead with that plan (I know, I know) and then on the way home we needed milk, etc. etc. etc. By the time we got home, it was lunch time and I needed to at least get the girls fed before calling the hospital. The contractions had still continued, and I counted 10 in 60 minutes. After ringing the midwives, they told me to come in and get checked just in case. I kissed Marc and the girls goodbye, told them I would be back in just a little while thinking they would check me and send me home to take a warm bath and relax. Ha. I walked to the hospital- remember we just live around the corner and I was not going to drive my car 50 yards to pay for parking. I arrived and was immediately assessed. I was still contracting 1:6 min. so I was then told they would give me some strong medicine to stop labor (even though I was not in really that much pain) and I would have to be transferred because the hospital was full and if I did have the baby then there was no place in the NICU for the baby.

And that's when I freaked out.

The doctor told me that I was be transferred to hopefully another hospital in South Wales if there were any openings or I would be air-lifted somewhere else. WHAT? I was told to call Marc ASAP and they would start my meds. So, needless to say for about an hour it was pretty chaotic. Thankfully one of our team members was free, and she came to keep the girls while Marc threw clothes in a bag for me and headed up to the hospital. Thankfully, there was a place for me about 45 minutes away (actually the same hospital I was at near Pontypool when I miscarried our first pregnancy) and so I went by ambulance...a first experience for me!

The meds have seemed to work and after behaving nicely and promising the doctor this afternoon that I would not lift anything heavy (i.e. 2 little girls) and would rest, then she discharged me home! I have to take this medicine for one more day and then I'll be done. If it starts again she said I just need to get myself back to my hospital ASAP and hope there is room for me and the baby. She said I can only have this medicine for 48 hours and then they will not try and stop labor if it happens again. So, I'm praying I can make it 3 more weeks to my 37th week, in which I'm considered full term. I see my midwife on Wednesday and she'll be in for shock when I tell her all this. Anyway, I'm feeling fine right now, just going to try and rest the next few days. Poor Marc, we just get over all this illness in our family and now I'm going to have a long to-do list for him. :(

So there you go. It's never a dull moment around here!

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