Last Friday evening, around 6 p.m., I tripped on a step and fell. I landed on my left knee first, and then belly flopped right on my stomach. (probably looked just like a beached whale if I had to guess). Anyways, as soon as I fell, I had a sinking feeling that I had hurt Skylee. I decided to monitor her movement for the next couple hours, and just see how things went. I felt her move shortly after my fall, which was kind of relieving, but as the minutes went by I began to have lower back pain and I'd go through periods of my stomach having this weird tightening/pressure pain sensation. After about an hour, I called my doctor's office and got answering service. The doctor called me back right away. He said he figured I was fine, that these things happen all the time, but just to be on the safe side, I should go in to the Labor & Delivery department and get monitored. As soon as I got to the hospital, they hooked me up to the machines and gave me lots of water to drink. About 45 minutes had gone by, and the nurse told me that things were looking really good and I'd probably be going home soon. 5 minutes later she checked the monitor again, and my body had started having contractions. They decided to keep me another hour and monitor the contractions, as some contractions are normal in pregnancy. Rule of thumb at this stage is not to have more than 6 in an hour. About half an hour after she restarted the hour of monitoring, she came in because I had already had 9 or 10 contractions. They gave me a pill and a shot in my arm to stop the contractions. The shot was probably one of the most painful shots I've ever been given, but the medicine worked and I stopped having contractions. They sent me home on bed rest orders, and told me to call if I had more than 4 contractions in one hour.
I woke up Saturday morning feeling absolutely miserable. I felt like I had been run over by a train. Crazy how a simple fall effected me so differently being pregnant! I stayed on the couch all day, and about mid-day I noticed that I had started having sporadic contractions. I kept a close eye on it, and around 6 I decided to call my doctor again because the past half hour I had 6-7 contractions. They brought me back in to the hospital, and gave me Procardia right away (a pill) to prevent contractions. Then they sent me for an ultrasound (which I must add how relieved I was to see little Skylee jumping around doing alright). Everything came back looking good on the ultrasound. I had several sporadic contractions after the ultrasound, and they decided to keep me overnight to monitor me. I got absolutely NO SLEEP that night! Every time I'd get comfortable and fall asleep, somehow I'd mess up the monitor and the nurse would have to come in, wake me up, and readjust them. Fortunately, I didn't have any more contractions. Daniel got off work around 7:30 a.m. and came right over to the hospital to sit with me. Around 9 the nurse came in and told me they were going to let me go home, but that I was to be on strict bed rest till the following day when I saw my regular OB doctor. They prescribed me the Procardia pill which I have to take now every 6 hours to prevent contractions. As soon as I got home, I went to bed and the rest of Sunday is kind of a blur! I was so exhausted.
Monday I got up and my doctor had me come in to get checked out. Thankfully, she said everything looked good with our little Skylee and that it seemed as if she was finally getting the message that it WASN'T TIME to come!!! She took me off of complete bed rest (which I am so incredibly thankful for, as it would have broken my heart to be away from our families for Christmas) and told me to just stay on pelvic rest for a week or two.
I am very, very thankful that Skylee is still safe and snug inside my tummy. While I know that at 28 weeks it's very possible for babies to survive, I would much rather her stay inside cooking for a little while longer :)
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