Inpatient at North Central Baptist Hospital Day 9

As many of you know, I am inpatient at North Central Baptist Hospital in San Antonio. The hospital is beautiful, and my doctors and nurses are great. They admitted me because my cervix was short and coning (1.2 cm). They did do a test to see if I was secreting a labor hormone, but it came back negative. If it would have been positive I would be in pre-term labor, and there would be a chance that I would have the babies in 7-10 days. Cool that they can test for that, but thank goodness it came back negative.

I have had quite a few visitors, so time has been passing by. My day consists of waking up, taking a shower, eating breakfast, eating a snack, eating lunch, eating a snack, eating dinner, and last a snack. So I eat. I also get monitored once in the morning and once in the evening for an hour. They know me as the one who likes to eat. Every nurse is surprised to see what I have for snacks. One said,"I've never seen dietary do this before" and I said, "I guess if you don't ask the answer is always no." Anyway, there food times are 8:45am, 1:30pm, and 6:30pm. I'm starving by then :). I also have food in my small fridge. No worries everyone, I'm eating!! I haven't really been able to leave my room. I found out that I could get wheelchair privileges, so I asked and received permission this morning; so starting today if someone comes to visit they may let me get out. Yea! I would love to go outside!!! That may be asking too much.

Everyday has been pretty good, but this week has been a little crazy:
Monday and Tuesday were tough because I had to stay on the monitor for 8 hours each day. Baby A was showing decelerations in his heartbeat. It was scary, but they were very cautious and they know what they are looking for. Baby A is pretty calm and Baby B moves around like crazy; we never find him in the same spot. Wednesday was also exciting because I was showing signs of a bloodclot. My heartrate was in the 130-140s and I was having trouble breathing. My goodness, I really didn't notice! My nurse brought it my attention. I had an ultrasound on my legs (which was so painful by the way) and then I had a chest xray to make sure I didn't have a bloodclot in my lungs. I don't think I was a good patient, but the radiologist guy was extremely patient. I was a little bit claustrophobic, okay I won't lie, I was really claustrophobic. The machine was smashing me like in between two pieces of bread. I'll save that story for later for anyone who asks.

Anyway, when I got back to my room last night they put me on IV fluids. I'm already on bedrest with only bathroom privileges and now I'm tied down pulling this coatrack. It was annoying, but then I found out today I was having contractions two minutes apart all night long and that's why I was on the IV. My doctor said they were bad ones and they came in all night watching me. I wasn't phased. I guess that Ambien sleeping pill really works. All I can say is that I'm really blessed to be in great hands. I am in the best place and I am so happy.

Trey and Quade come twice a week; once during the week and once on the weekend. Quade is making himself at home when he's here. We also Skype every night. For those of you that don't know, skype is a free service you download to your computer and you can video conference for free. It's so cool and Quade really likes it. I think Trey is holding up okay. Thank you everyone for checking on him.

Again, thank you for your continued thoughts and prayers.