Day 1

Definitely the most emotional day so far.   Just realizing this is really happening, we most definitely aren't doing a home birth now (even though we already knew there was a high probability that wouldn't happen because he was breech).  Calling family to let them know what's going on.  Saturday morning we were thinking we still had 9 weeks to get ready for the baby to come, then by Saturday night we are hearing 3 weeks, possibly just 48 hours.   I've got all sorts of stuff running through my head, on top of all the health/baby concerns - I'm worrying about how I'll get the nursery ready but then realizing the baby will be here for a long time after he's born so there'll be time for that later.   I'm going to have to buy some preemie clothes - and #1 - you might notice I am just calling him baby.  We have to come up with a name!!

We finally got moved into our pre partum delivery room by about 4 am.  Jamie and I both got about 45 minutes of sleep till 5 and then that was it for the night.   They were able to take a sample of the amniotic fluid to test his lung development and that showed they are still immature.  So I had to have 2 shots of steriods that will help quickly mature his lungs.  That's why the first goal was to make it 48 hours after the steriod shots so that those would take full effect.  They also gave me magnesium through an IV for the first 24 hours.  That made me pretty sick.  Hot flashes, headache, nausea, dizziness, muscle weakness.  Of course, I can only get out of bed to go to the bathroom so as long as I was in bed things weren't too awful.  The dizziness and muscle weakness got pretty bad after 18 hours.   They gave me meds for the nausea so I was able to eat lunch by Sunday afternoon.  The magnesium was to stop any contractions.  The baby and I were on constant monitoring for the first 48 hours to track the baby's heartrate and my contractions.  The baby's heartrate was great the whole time - he had lots of accelerations which are what we want to see.  So he is not in any distress right now.  I was having a few contractions, but most of them I didn't even feel so that is good news too. 
  
Hudson came to visit a few times on Sunday.  I wasn't sure what his reaction would be to seeing me in bed hooked up to all the monitors but it didn't phase him.  He was pretty interested in my IV and the heartrate monitor - but he was most excited about the buttons that make my bed move and the TV in the room.  Figuring out what we are going to do with Hudson over the next few weeks is going to be one of the biggest challenges.  We have cut Jamie's clinic hours back quite a bit so that he can be here and everyone has offered to take him whenever - so we just have to figure out what's going to work best.  I had been working at the clinic for the past 5 weeks and his schedule has been pretty messed up from that.  So I was looking forward to getting things back to normal, decorating for Christmas.  But I guess, for now, this will be our new normal.