What a cruddy week...

So I have a lot to update, but I'm not really sure how much I feel like writing at the moment.

Monday, 6/15 I had my Dr.'s appt.
Matt had to work, and it was just a checkup anyway, so mom went with me. Naples usually runs a little behind, but he was fairly early and things were moving along, so that was nice, I figured we'd be right in and out. Well the nurse had taken my weight, temperature, urine sample, and BP. We went over my meds, etc etc and all that junk, and she sent me to an exam room.
Dr. Naples came in, we did the small talk, I told him how I had been having some more contractions on Sunday night, but tried to rest, and drink a lot of fluids and all. He said no big deal, all pretty normal for 35 weeks. He measured me, and we listened to the heartbeat and all and asked if we had any questions.
Well then he was going over my chart, and said that my blood pressure was kind of high. And I thought I had noticed that when the nurse was checking it. I guess 120 over 80 is fairly standard/good for most people, and usually I'm very close to right on that. But I was like 147 over 89. So that combined with the contractions the prior night, he said he wanted to send me next door to the birthing center to have blood drawn, and put me on the monitors for a few. Well mom and I were like, oh, wow, okay...didn't see that coming.
So he gives us the paperwork and all, and we go to the triage at the Birthing Center. They basically say that several pregnancy illnesses can cause a mother's Blood Pressure to rise, and just keep rising, it refuses to come back down. And if that occurs, the only way to get the BP back down is to deliver the baby. So they drew blood to run some tests, and put me on the monitors, and started monitoring my BP again. Well my BP went back down to an acceptable level, and the blood and urine screens came back fine. But after about an hour, hour and a half of being there, she was asking me if I was feeling my contractions. I said honestly, at that time, I really wasn't, I just felt a little crampy, like VERY light period cramps. Well they were sporadic still, and like 1-2 minutes apart. Well, when I had the contractions/preterm labor @ 31 weeks, they gave me the 2 doses of Terbutaline to stop them, because I was still VERY preterm. Well the nurse said she'd call over to Dr. Naples, and see what he wanted to do.
Well she came back and basically said at this point, Naples wasn't going to do anything to promote them (induce), or to prevent them (like Terb to stop them). And gave me the basic, if my water breaks, they get too intense to walk, any spotting, etc, to come back to the Hospital. And they let us go. Basically said I'm just going to ride out the contractions from here on out as long as there were no problems.

So that's Monday's story.

Well, yesterday I worked and felt pretty good. If I felt a strong contraction or anything, I just sat down for a few minutes, tried to drink some extra water. Mom met me at work, we shopped, then I did some laundry, and mom and I just hung out at her house. Later on, at like maybe 7, I started feeling my "cramps"/contractions, nothing too horrible, but I could feel them well enough to try and generally time them. Well I was seeing that they were fairly regular, like maybe 2-3 minutes apart, carying a little. But then I start getting a lot of back pain. And by like 8:30 the back pain was so bad it was like basically impossible to even try to time the contractions anymore. You know how when one thing hurts so bad, you forget about something else hurting? Well that's pretty much what I had going on. Well after a while, mom asked me what was wrong. She said she could tell by the look on my face something was bothering me a lot. So I told her, and she asked if I wanted to go over to the hospital. I was like, "I don't even know, are they just going to send me home?" Because it's still a bit early to induce if I'm not dilated, unless there was a real problem or reason to. Well, she decided we should go get it checkd out if my back was hurting this bad, because it basically sounded like it could be back labor.
So we went, they hooked me all up, took my BP, etc. Had to tell like 2-3 different people and nurses what was going on, fill them in on my Monday appt., how bad my pain was and all that. Well they said the baby was still very active and looking great. And we were there a couple hours, and said I was definitely having VERY strong regular contractions. They checked me, and I was not really dilated at all, maybe just a tiny teeny bit the one nurse said, but almost totally closed. So I sat and got monitored a while longer, they called Naples to fill him in. They had me drink some water and try to stay hydrated and kept me monitored to see if anything progressed. Well, Mom was kind of timing my spikes on the monitor and basically said I was having contractions every minute and a half or so, and they were all lasting like longer than 45 seconds apparently. Well the nurse said that Dr. Naples was sticking to the same plan, no plans to induce or stop them. And they offerred me Demerol for the back pain, which I was a little hesitant about. I've never really had to take anything like that for anything before, and wasn't sure how I'd react or it would make me feel. The nurse said it doesn't usually make people TOO loopy, just maybe groggy and some people get nauseous. Well I agreed to it to take the edge off the pain. Definitely ended up getting sick, which sucked. Then they just wanted to watch me after the Dem shot for a little while and let me go. Pretty much same instructions. Come back if the pain was unbearable, the contractions got really close, my water breaks, etc, etc.
So THAT was another fun night.
This kid is already being so difficult!! I just wish he'd break my water or start dilating me or something, because I do NOT want to be going through this for weeks!!