Bed Rest

Just one more week from today I am officially released from bed rest!

I have been spending the last two and a half weeks in one of two places...

Here in our disaster of a bed 

(Joey was so sweet to set up our desk with our computer right next to the bed for me)

Or here in our less disaster of a couch 

I has actually been pretty easy to keep myself occupied. My good friends Natalie brought me over some good books to read. There are plenty of movies to watch. And the extra sleep has been quite nice.  And I have even had homework that I have been working on. One of my FAVORITE things that has happened since bed rest is one of my best friends from high school came to visit me for three days!

Who you ask? Jeanelle Hollenbaugh! She is such a good friend to drive 7 hours here and 7 hours back just to lay around my apartment with me and keep me company. And she brought me presents!

Some of my favorite things! And of course we used the coloring books while she was here. She also brought down her movies and we watched some really good ones that I had never seen before. So thank you VERY much Jeanelle! I did miss her the very next day when I had no one to be with me the whole day :(

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Okay I think most people who read my blog already know the story of what happened, but there may be some one out there that doesn't know, and besides it's good for the records.

On Monday June 27th (yes the very same Monday that Joey's parents left to go back home) I decided that the persistent back pain that had been going on since the previous Thursday was no longer okay with me.  I figured I would just go in and they would tell me some solution I could do whether it be drugs or whatever I just couldn't take it anymore. So I went in without an appointment and told them it wasn't an emergency or anything that I just needed to ask the Doctor a question.

 Well I was called back pretty quick and explained the back pain to my doctor. He was very calm about it and told me that he just needed to check and see if it was preterm labor or not, and if it wasn't that it would be a pretty easy fix. So he left the room and Joey and I were talking about how we really didn't think it was preterm labor because I would probably notice and I hadn't had consistent contractions or anything. So we are just sitting there patiently waiting for our "easy fix" so we can leave and go to classes.

We were wrong. The doctor came in checked me and told me that I was dilated to 1.5 centimeters and need to hook me up to the monitor to see if I was having contractions. Okay now Joey and I are staring at each other wide eyed thinking WHAT?! So they hook me up to the monitor and sure enough I am having consistent contractions. Now our hearts are racing as the doctor explains that we need to go up to the hospital so they can give me things to stop the labor hopefully for 24hrs. Now I am waaaay freaked out because I didn't realize that he was saying if all else fails hopefully stop it for 24hrs, I just heard the 24hrs part and could not stop thinking, I'm not ready, She's not ready! (I was 31weeks 5days)

So we are driving to the hospital (which is just down the street) and Joey's freaking out saying that he did not come ready for this today, and I'm thinking the same thing. At this point I am VERY glad I asked him to come with me because at first I was just going to go alone. We both called our parents and told them what was going on and then we were there. 

They gave me an IV with drugs to stop the labor, then they game me a shot of another drug to stop the labor, then a oral pill to stop the labor, and a shot of steroids for the babies lungs. Well after being in the hospital on monitors for 10 hours I was sent home. The drugs worked and my labor stopped pretty easy. 

We were both EXTREMELY grateful that she didn't come that early.  Although it did put me on bed rest in the middle of the semester.  But my teachers were very sympathetic and worked with me on what I could do for my classes. I am thankful that I go to BYU-I where half the married women are pregnant so the teachers are used to things like this. 

I also thought that I was going to have to be on bed rest until August 3rd but was pleased to hear that I am able to be off two weeks earlier! And first on my agenda, Going to the last Harry Potter movie with our friends Natalie and RJ! (I'm so glad they were willing to wait the extra 5 days after it comes out) 

Sorry that was such a long blog, hope you didn't get too bored. I'll let you know when our silly baby makes it here for real, which could be any day from today to August really. crazy.