What, You’re Still Here?

This morning started with my 6am early visit from one of the residents. She asked me the usual questions about my night – any pain in your abdomen, cramping, contractions? I respond “no, no, no” like usual. This morning she said before leaving “looks like you are starting to defy the odds!” I thought – [...]

Nonstress Test

Nonstress Test, originally uploaded by Evelyn Lang.
Here I am having a nonstress test, I am looking over at the monitors to watch the data as it tracks by on the screen (think of an EKG). I have one of these tests 3 times a day in my hospital room at 8am, 4pm and 12am, for [...]

1 Week!

A week ago on Tuesday night we were admitted to UConn Health Center because my water broke. It was an intensely scary night, we all thought there was a good chance I was going to have the babies that night. I arrived here by ambulance and received many treatments and through the miracles of modern [...]

Putting Bed Rest in Perspective

Today begins week 30 for us. I am so glad to see that number 3, what a great milestone.
We made it through the night with no trouble once again! No contractions, babies heart rates are good and they’re moving around a lot. We asked the doctors this morning during their rounds when my next ultrasound [...]

Day 3 in the Hospital

It’s November 28th at 5:35pm and we’re still hanging on! No contractions today, babies are still checking out great. I got my IVs removed and will be on oral antibiotics for the next 5 days. The antibiotics are to help prevent infection since Baby A’s bag of waters has broken. There are two things that [...]

Thanksgiving in the Hospital

Second night in the hospital was uneventful – babies heartbeats are strong and no contractions. The nurses come in to monitor the babies heartbeats, my contractions and check my vitals every 4 hours so sleeping straight through the night is not an option. I’m getting used to this by now though. After the first crazy [...]

Fast Forward

Well, I thought it would be a good bed rest activity to take some time and really document the story of my brief stay in the hospital. It was a good story, but it looks like I need to take some editorial license and summarize the events of the last week since so much has [...]

Let the Excitement Begin

Well, I guess my days of having uneventful prenatal checkups are officially over! Not that I’m very excited about that, but hey, at least I will have something interesting to say the next time someone asks me “how are you feeling?”
Last week around Tuesday I started complaining to ML about some pain in my hips. [...]