Long week. Wednesday (2-20) I woke up with some bleeding and light cramping. I didn't think it was any big concern, but I said from the beginning that I would always go with my intuition and stay on the better safe than sorry side of things regardless if I bug my dr. 24-7. So I went in when the office opened at about 8:30, not knowing what a long day was ahead of us. She did an ultrasound (I'll scan pics in later) and did an exam. Baby Watson was very busy in there as usual and seemed fine, but to cover all bases the dr. hooked me up to a contraction monitor and a fetal heartbeat monitor. Again, I didn't think this was going to be a big deal and I love to hear his heartbeat so I just sat back and read a book. After the second time she checked on me, she informed me that I would be going down to the 4th floor to stay overnight. What? Till tonight or overnight? I heard it right the first time, I was going to be admitted for monitoring overnight.And did I mention that it is a full moon, just saying. I couldn't get in touch with Bryce, who didn't even know that I had gone to the dr. that morning. So here I am having contractions every 6-10 minutes that I wasn't even aware of. I got another ultrasound when I got down there, but this time it was to check the amnio fluid level and my cervix. The nurse was nice enough to let me watch him play around a bit. I got to see him hiccuping too. He has fat on his face now so I can tell that he looks like Bryce alot. He is so beautiful, so of course that made me cry. Otherwise, I wasn't emotional or upset over any of this. I could feel my active little baby the whole time and hear his strong heartbeat, so I had no worries. After the ultrasound I was hooked back up to those monitors until the dr. checked me out the next morning. Bryce stayed there overnight too. Oh yeah-I was given Procardia to relax my uterus. It is initially a drug to lower blood preasure, so I was having mine checked regularly and there was no change b/c of the low dosage. So far I haven't found any side effects to the baby, so taking it is definitely better than taking the chance of him being pre-term. I have to take it every 8 hours, and I guess it started to work b/c the dr. released me at about 10:30 Thursday morning. She said my contractions had become irregular, about every 30 minutes or so, and I could go home and continue taking the Procardia every 8 hrs until I am 36 wks. She considers that full term, I don't, but we'll deal with that later. Anyway, I sat on my bottom all weekend which is really hard to do. Bryce did too, but he doesn't seem to mind relaxing. I have an appointment Tomorrow to see what happens next. I pray for no bedrest, but more importantly that Baby Watson is still happy and healthy in there. His activity level has not changed at all. Part of my instructions upon hospital discharge were to count contractions of course, and if I don't feel him moving as much to lay on my side and count 10 movements in 1 hr. So just for fun I did it once and he moved 10 times in 2 minutes!

Sidebar: The rug for the nursary was on my doorstep when I got home from the Hospital. My mother in law opened it for me and put it down, see I'm being good. I love it! It is perfect and simple for the room. I'll take another pic once the curtains are hung.

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