I figured I should catch up on writing a bit.
I did a week of summer school. My classes were the “behavior kids and the special needs kids.” I didn’t mind them, well 95% of them. I had the largest classes of everyone but they listened to me for the most part. Pregnancy was going fine except for me feeling huge. Friday, the 11th, I woke up to Mike’s alarm clock. I got up and went to the bathroom then climbed back in bed (no summer school on Fridays). Within 10 minutes (before the next snooze alarm) I felt soaked to my knees. I got up to a bowling ball sized wet spot. I went to the bathroom to dry off and try to pee again. I noticed the liquid on my legs/thighs was clear but almost sticky. I woke Mike and told him I wasn’t sure what it was. He smelled it (he has a great sense of smell) and he said it was definitely not urine and it had no smell, like water. I asked him to make sure it wasn’t sweet smelling, he said No after a second smell. I smelled it and agreed with him. I called the hospital and was told to come right in even though I had an appointment with my doctor for that morning. I showered and we went in. Tests were done, nothing was found.. No contractions, no dilation and baby was fine. Wasn’t my water, wasn’t urine, most likely it was the discharge that I normally had and when I moved it gushed out instead of slowly coming out like usual.
Saturday I didn’t feel great, lots of back pains and Braxton hicks.
Sunday I hosted a jewelry party and got almost $200 in free jewelry so that was great. I felt pretty good, just a bit of lower back pain and lots of leg cramps.
Monday I went to school, had a meeting after etc. No issues, just very tired.
Tuesday morning I got up VERY early to travel 1.5hrs to a mandatory conference. I was staying in a hotel there till Friday. Tuesday was okay. Back pain and a few contractions. Nothing major. She went head down Tuesday mid-day and did not come back up by night (usually she flips a ton). Tuesday night I was awoken with TONS of leg cramps.
Wednesday I could barely walk because of the sore calves but also because my pelvis was hurting. I had lots of intense Braxton hicks. I drank a ton of water and some Gatorade to help with that. I ate decent till afternoon. I then all the sudden lost my appetite. I didn’t want anything to eat or drink but I forced myself to eat dinner and drink more water and Gatorade. I went to bed early. Slept really well.
I woke up Thursday with a headache. It got bad quickly and I saw spots by 9am. I called the doctor, they told me to leave the conference and come to them. I packed my stuff, went to the doctor and was seen by 11am. I had contractions during the exam and he discovered I had a very bad yeast infection that was not there the Friday before. I was sent to the hospital (next door) to make sure my blood work was okay since I had a few signs of preeclampsia (I also had elevated blood pressure).
I ended up being hooked up to monitors and right away it was obvious that I was having contractions every 1-2 minutes. I could feel them but they were not painful. Maybe 1 an hour was painful. Many tests were done and I was stuck overnight till this morning.
They let me out because they slowed down to one every hour or two. I was given steroid shots for her lungs and I’m on bed rest till next Friday when I see my doctor again. I have antibiotics for the yeast infection they found. I’m miserable, feeling guilty for not being able to do anything, and very emotional. Plus I’m itchy (the infection didn’t bother me till they did so many exams and stirred things up), I get contractions more intense and frequent if I even stand up for 5 minutes.
Doctors are trying to keep baby girl in till mid August…this is not going to be fun.
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