24 week gestation premature baby girl = preemie blog

I went into Pre term Labor at work.

On the 16th of August I was at work, my stretching pains felt different today, I'm 23 weeks pregnant. Due to the fibroids I'm expecting a little more pain than usual. But it's hard for me to walk around alot today. It's also difficult to deal with the people at work, the more I walk around back and forth to the bathroom the more pain I feel and it's written all over my face. People that don't normally talk to me are stopping to see if I'm ok. I really want to just finish my work day since I don't have alot of paid time off saved up. If I can just stop using the bathroom and stay in my seat it will work out.
Well it's about 4p.m. and I called my doctor because the pain was getting worse, I thought maybe I have a UTI. They told e to come in tomorrow early to pee in a cup. By the end of the day the pain was so bad it would stop me in my tracks. I went hospital because I knew they'd be able to give me pain medication and find out what's wrong.
I didn't have a UTI, this concerned me, she told me everything looked fine. So she got me up on the table and low & behold I was 3-4 centimeter dilated. The nurse got really serious and started calling for assistance. I wasn't scared yet because I wasn't sure what exactly this meant. Another nurse came in a checked me, they moved me to a labor and delivery bed.... They told me I'm not going home until I delivered. Now I was really concerned. The pain had slacked a little or maybe it didn't hurt as much because I was scared. With my husband now by my side I started to feel a little better but we were waiting to speak to the doctor. We were told it would not be good at all if I delivered now and that they would give me medicine to stop my contractions they were every 2 to 3 minutes. The doctor told me they wanted me pregnant for as long as possible so the baby could develop and had a better chance of survival.
They started an IV - my 1st ever, along with my 1st hospital stay an all. They took blood and started up the medication. The nurses tilted my delivery bed flat with feet up to take pressure off my cervix. Fun Fun Fun.
this became very painful in about 20 minutes. My lower back & head started to hurt - I got pain medication that knocked me out for the night. My husband stayed by my side the whole time.

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Today is thursday August 17th I came to terms with being flat on my back and laying at a tilt with my head down, feet up. Even though I was uncomfortable I was willing to stay this way as long as I could to stay pregnant. I now had an antibiotic because of my raised white blood cells and finishing up the medication to stop contractions which I was still having but only 2 or 3 every hour. Occasional medicine for pain and occasional test. The nurses checked my blood pressure and other stats every 4 hours. The next day around the afternoon, my water broke. They expected I may go into labor so they had no plans to move me from the delivery room yet.

After some hours went by it was the 19th, they changed me to a long term bed and started monitoring me and the baby. They say I could stay this way - with my water broken for a while. I could only hope.

By the 22nd I was doing so good. The doctor said maybe we should get you to TGH. Because there doctors are on staff 24/7. He said due to the conditions it would be best for Sahanna. I was transported later that evening. My hubbie and parents came along for the transfer. I stayed in TGH triage until I went into labor on the 23rd around 4p.m. I started having contractions which felt no more than really bad gas pains in my tummy. Well that didn't last for long. By 8 ish I was in terrible pain. I was waiting on my epidural. After that, I couldn't feel my legs. I sat quiet and tired in the delivery room- see picture below.