Scary!

Well we had a little bit of a preterm labor scare that started on Thursday. I went to lunch with some of my girlies from college and had a great time. When I got home I felt really tired and laid down on the couch to talk to Jeremy. I started having contractions at 3:23 but they were like 20 minutes apart. We called the doctor because something just didn't feel right about it and we didn't want to wait until after the office closed. They told me to lay down drink 4 glasses of water wait and hour and they would call back. If they stopped great, if not I would need to go to the hospital. Well they didn't stop actually they got way worse. They were 2 minutes apart and intense. I started crying because I had just gotten to 26 weeks that day and it was just too soon for these babies to show up. We haven't even bought any diapers yet!! Jeremy loaded me up in the car and took me to the hospital. We went straight to labor and delivery and got hooked up to all the monitors. The babies did not like all those bands and monitors and would kick and push away from them every time. They were SUPER active (I think it was because they didn't like all the contractions either). The contractions got to one minute apart. They checked my cervix multiple times and felt that it wasn't changing enough to warrant staying in the hospital. They put me on some medication to take away some of the intensity of the contractions and sent me home. We got home at 12:30pm. The next day we saw our doctor and he checked my cervix again and saw that it was starting to funnel. He also said it had changed over a cm from two days ago at our last visit. He put me on another drug to try to stop the contractions completely and put me on restricted activity which means that I can get up to go the bathroom but that is it. I was instructed to lay on my left side until Tuesday. Thank goodness for Jeremy and my wonderful family! They kept me sane with movies, puzzles, food etc. We had another appointment yesterday and the contractions still had not stopped but they have lessened in intensity and they have not changed my cervix any more!! That was really good news! The doctor said that I am the size of a woman carrying one baby at full term right now and my uterus is reacting like it is at full term because it doesn't know there are 2 babies in there!! Unfortunately, this means I can not travel at all now so we had to cancel my baby shower in the Springs that Dianna was going to host. We are combining it with the one in Denver my mom is hosting because I am allowed to go to that one if I take it really easy! I am allowed to get off the couch a little more now, sit up, do very limited things around the house (no dishes, cooking, laundry, exercise, grocery store, shopping, etc, etc) I will stand on my head for a week if it will make any difference! I just want these babies to keep cookin'! Right now our goal is to get to 30 weeks and then 32, then 34, etc... I had the most awesome ultrasound tech take some profiles of the babies and a funny one at the end! They are so cute and still doing great in there! Hold on tight James and Ellie it's not time to come out yet!

Our baby boy's profile with his arm up.


Baby Ellie's profile--she is always so much harder to get pictures of! The boy's little bottom!! How funny!!