Reading through my blog from last week, it seems a lot of my concerns from last week have worked themselves out. I started having contractions on Tuesday night. They were coming pretty strong and fast, but then about the time I was going to give up and go to the hospital, they went away. The same thing happened the next night. Then Thursday I went into work early like I normally do to go to our leadership staff meeting. While in the leadership staff meeting, my boss was talking about how our team was dropping like flies. We had one girl with two deaths in the family, one who sliced her hand open and one with some pretty bad back problems. I made a joke, "Well I won't tell you about the contractions I've been having. I'll probably be the next one to drop." It looks like it wasn't that funny of a joke. About an hour before I was supposed to leave work I started having contractions again. I had to go to the doctor anyway to get my weekly torture shot so I had them check me out when I got over there.
The doctor did exactly what I thought she would and sent me straight over to the hospital to be monitored. I didn't like the idea of going into L&D triage (where we found out Kyler was dead), but it wasn't that bad, especially since Kalen was rocking and rolling on my way over there. My doctor called over and had a nurse that knew at least a little bit about my story waiting for me. It was still hard. The nurse made sure that we were in a different room then I was with Kyler. She had a hard time getting the heart rate monitor on him but that was just because he was being a pill. Every time she would get the monitor on him he'd move and kick at it just as she strapped it down. She finally got it on him, where it would only work if I held it down. :D The only bad part really was she picked up my heart a few times on the monitor while she was trying to find his, which wasn't really scary since he was moving, but then she asked if I knew and could tell the difference between how my heart sounded and his. Yeah, I do... better then the nurses who saw me when we went in after Kyler stopped moving. They had tried to tell me that my heart beat was Kyler's. It wasn't, I knew it wasn't. Anyway. I spent a little over an hour in triage being monitored for contractions, holding the monitor down on stinker Kalen to keep his heart rate monitored.
I was indeed having contractions. They gave me a terbutaline shot to stop the contractions. I'd read a bit in terbutaline with Kyler and knew it wasn't anything fun. As the nurse gave it to me she told me "I've never taken meth, but I'd imagine this is what it feels like." It wasn't fun, but at least the icky feeling didn't last long. The terbutaline calmed down my contractions and they sent me home with a prescription for nifedipine to keep them under control and instructions for.... bedrest.
It looks like I get my wish to curl up in bed with the puppy for the next couple months. Be careful what you wish for, right? The nifedipine has been keeping my contractions under control though, which is good news. It makes me feel like crap. Headaches that turn into migraines if I am not careful, sleepiness, general yucky feeling, but at least that motivates me to follow the bedrest instructions. My next doctor's appointment is Tuesday. I am hoping if my contractions stay under control she will let me do a few things around the house, but I am pretty sure I am done with work until after Kalen get's here. Even if I do have to continue on bedrest this time it will only be 5 weeks, instead of the 14 weeks I had with Kyler (they take you off of bedrest at 36 weeks). Plus we have things worked out where I can be pretty self sufficient while Clay is at work and it is only maybe 1/10th as scary as it was last time.
I am a little worried about getting my disability payments going. In a perfect world I'd get paid 60% of full time, but I am afraid that since I've been working part time for the last four months (on FMLA) that they will only pay me 60% of the part time. At least 60% of the part time would cover my insurance premiums. Worst case is they will say since I have been part time that I don't qualify for disability, but that shouldn't happen, knock on wood. The FMLA was supposed to keep my benefit status at full time. I'll tackle that fight on Tuesday after I have more information from my doctor on what she is expecting to happen.
Of course the big plan is for Kalen to hang out until his scheduled debut July 2. :D
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