a year ago

Just one year ago today, I was here.



Water broken and chillin in the hospital. Looking totally fab I might add. This is how you look at 5am when you've just been told you'll be spending the holidays in the hospital. Thrilled.

Here's what I blogged a year ago. It's times like this when I love that I take the time to blog. Fun (and cool) to look back on where we've been.

Written by me on November 21st, 2009

32 weeker - that's hospital speak for me and the baby. I'm working on my hospital lingo and preemie knowledge because as the last 18 hours have unfolded, it looks like I'm going to need a good understanding of both.

Last night - and yesterday for that matter - were pretty typical days. Nothing out of the ordinary baby wise. I got up to go to the bathroom at 1:30 am - as usual - and thought to myself that one of these times I'd wake up to my water breaking like it did with J. I reassured myself that I'd be much more calm this time around and went back to bed ... only to wake up to that very thing less than 2 hours later! Water broke at 3:15 am. I was calm. Mostly just upset because I know how early this is and liked giving birth to a healthy full term baby last time around. Woke Dominic up, called the doctor on call just to make sure I really HAD to go to the hospital. Ummmm yes you do ... ok fine ... packed a bag, waited for mom to come stay with J and loaded up in the car. Got here around 4:15. Definite rupture, having contractions. I was under the assumption we'd be having a baby, but was informed that since I am only 32 wks 3 days they don't want me to have the baby yet. Got a shot of steriods for the baby's lung's and a shot of something to stop the contractions. Had no idea they even had such a thing! Shot worked and contractions subsided. Having some small ones now, but they've been non existent since about 7am.

The nurse told me that I'd be spending the holidays here. I wasn't very happy to hear that. My 48 hour stay in the hospital was plenty long enough with J thank you very much!!!! But we'll stay as long as it takes ... I'm crying off and on about what that means for us as a family and the day in day out ... but God is in control and we'll just hang in there.