Joys of Pregnancy

There's just about 8 1/2 weeks to go until Annaliese makes her arrival, but we thought she might come early last week. On Wednesday of last week, I woke up around 5:15 a.m. sick (I'll spare you the gory details) and having contractions every few minutes. I called the doctor and she told me to count the contractions and come in if I had more than 4 in one hour. Well, about 15 minutes later, I had already had four contractions so I told Bobby we better head to the hospital. We dropped Ethan off at my mother-in-law's house (thank you Sandy!) and made our way to the hospital.

We arrived, got checked in and hooked up to all the monitors all the while still have contractions and getting sick. The contractions did not show up on the monitor, nor could the nurse feel them. The good news was that I was not in labor, but the bad news was I had a gastro-intestinal bug. They sent us home with medication and I slept most of the day. About six hours after taking my first dose of medication, I woke up with numbness and tingling in my legs, hands, nose and mouth, as well as stiffness in my hands. I could not pick up things or spread my fingers out - SCARY! We called the doctor and she told us I was having a bad reaction to the medication (duh!), to discontinue use of medication, to drink as much fluids as I could to flush it out of my system and go take a bath and relax. I wanted shoot the doctor......go relax and take a bath when I am losing control of my digits.....yeah right! I made up my mind that if it did not start to go away within a couple of hours that we would be headed back to the hospital. Thankfully, it never got to that and after lots of rest over the next couple of days I got over the bug and its side-effects. And thankfully the doctor I dealt with that day was not my own doctor, but another doctor in the practice who was on-call. I am praying that I don't get her when Annaliese really decides to arrive!

Annaliese meanwhile is doing well. I had an appointment this morning and she had hiccups while the doctor checked her heartbeat (which has been at 146 beats per minute the last three visits.....very consistent little girl). Can't wait to meet her!