Contractions

Well, I need to snap a belly picture but I haven't. I'll have to get on that.

On Friday the 13th I went into the hospital to stop contractions. When I went to bed Thursday night I was hurting but thought it was because we had walked around the fair. I slept for maybe 2 hours and was up the rest of the night hurting. Bad. I couldn't hardly move the pain hurt so bad and it was constant. That's why I didn't think it was contractions. I tried drinking a calcium/magnesium drink to relax my uterus but it didn't help. Finally around 5 am I went back to bed and slept a little. I got up and was still hurting so around 9 I called the midwife on call and told her what was happening. She said I needed to go in and get checked.

I went to the hospital and baby was great. They tested my urine, said I had a UTI and then gave me a shot to stop the contractions. That stuff makes you feel weird. It stopped them for a bit but they came back and then those weren't picking up on the monitor anymore even though I was still hurting. They sent me home.

This pregnancy I have had the feeling he will come early. I thought though that once my antibiotics kicked in, that I would have no more problems and would be good to go. On Monday morning (Sunday night) I had more contractions. They never got consistent and faded out. Wednesday (yesterday) was the first day I finally felt good. Then today I started hurting again. I've been on the antibiotic for almost a week. I'm just wondering now if it's my uterus being irritable. I've got to keep this little guy in until I'm at least 37 weeks or else I can't have a homebirth.

I just hope he's not born on Avery's birthday.

I'm curious to see what is going to happen. I think he'll come early but just wait and see...he'll probably come late :0)