I have been so busy with finishing up school and getting ready for this baby that blogging has kind of been put on the back burner! BUT.... I FINISHED SCHOOL!!! Yahoo! There was a minute when I thought I was gonna have little Lacey before school was out, but thankfully that didn't happen! =) So.....
Here is the story behind this picture..... Sorry about me looking so glamorous... I was really dressed to impress if you can't tell ;)
So I started getting a fever the day after thanksgiving... it spiked up to 103 at one point. I pretty much just tried to sleep it off and stay warm or take the sheets off because I was burning up! Well I was having pretty bad back pain and lower abdominal pain, and I knew my uterus was contracting, but I just figured it was Braxton Hicks + Fever= some pain, because my whole body ached due to the fever. Well I finally decided that I should just call my Dr. to make sure everything would be alright with my baby. He said, "well I think you better just go to Labor and Delivery to make sure you don't have a kidney infection." I wasn't really having any symptoms besides a fever and the pain. I went out and told Phillip we needed to go so off we went. They had me get a urine sample (I am a professional at those now... I have had to do them too often lol) and they hooked me up to the contraction monitor and fetal heart rate monitor. The nurse left the room to gather stuff, and I looked at what the screen was reading. I said to Phillip, "if that screen is what is monitoring me, I am having contractions." (For clinical's this semester, I was put on L&D so I know what the babies heart rate should look like and what "good" contractions look like.) I tried not to scare myself, and just said thought... oh that's probably another room they are monitoring. Well the nurse comes back in and says, "So do you feel those contractions?" Immediately I had tears streaming down my face because I was only 33.5 weeks pregnant and I knew what it meant if I had her. Phillip and the nurse comforted me and I was able to relax after the nurse told me my cervix was closed! What a relief! Well they did a bunch of work up tests on me, and I had quite a few new experiences, some of which I NEVER want to repeat! I was apparently very dehydrated because the nurses could not get an IV started! They finally called the anesthesiologist and he got one in right away.
* During the whole ordeal, Phillip was by my side and almost became a patient himself. He hadn't eaten all day and it was around five at night. All the sudden he said he didn't feel good. The nurse and I told him to sit down because he looked like a ghost. As the nurse was trying to help Phillip she had me reach for a nurse button and three nurses came rushing in. It was so scary because I was laying in bed and Phillip was out of it, he looked like he was about to have a seizure! It scared me, but I stayed calm. Phillip got crackers, juice and cookies. We joked with him saying if he was wanting some attention or cookies he could have just asked for them! I am glad he didn't fall to the ground and get hurt! He was such a good sport through all of the NEVER ending BEEPING monitors ALL through the night!
Anyway... My white blood cell count was 27,000 which is really high, so they were thinking maybe I had an intrauterine infection and they contemplated doing an amniocentesis. Anyway.... by morning my WBC count was down to 17,000 and my contractions were not regular anymore so I was sent home on bedrest for a few days..... to make this never ending story short I ended up getting a fever again a few days later, sent to ER, was put on bedrest and took Tylenol around the clock... and finally have been fever free for a few weeks! YEAH!! It's still a mystery what infection I had, but my body healed itself!
* Best part of the whole experience... besides me not delivering was that ambien!!! Oh my! Can I get a prescription of that?! I didn't hear one beep after I took that pill!
AMAZING!... next time I will try and have the Dr.'s order one for Phillip too haha ;)
Cute Phillip =) We were making a pumpkin roll!
This is my current belly.... me at about 36 weeks pregnant! I am popping!
Our graduation dinner!
Phillip and I got Lacey's room put together and her crib is up! We are pretty much ready for her arrival! We can't wait to meet this sweet angel!! I love her already!
