30 wk dr's appointment

So...I must blog about my adventure yesterday after going in for my routine visit. Keep in mind that Rhett is in San Antonio with our youth group and yesterday they were at Six Flags. Every day they are there they will be at some sort of theme park...to be quite honest I am jealous that tomorrow he gets to go to Sea World!! Anywho...back to the reason for writing this blog.

I went and dropped Reese off at Ashley's house, I don't know what I would've done had he gone with me...it sure would've made for a long visit. Then I begin heading to the office and realize I don't have my purse and I am 20 miles to empty and need gas. Needless to say I call the office to see if it's ok that I'm late and go home and get my purse. I press onward, get my purse, gas and head to my appointment which is within feet of Germantown Methodist Hospital. I get into the room and wait for Dr. Tonkin to get in. When she does come in we chit chat about things then she as she is getting ready to measure my stomach she notices (from across the room, mind you) that my stomach is as hard as a rock. She said, "Are you having a contraction?" I was like, um...I guess so. It didn't hurt but was rather uncomfortable. I get them every so often in the middle of the night but nothing regularly. She ordered a test for me and wanted to check to make sure I hadn't dialated any. The test (that has an incredibly long name) tested to see if baby would be coming super early. (Thankfully it came back negative) She checked me and I am not dialating but my cervix is already beginning to thin out. She ordered me to have an ultrasound and if indeed it is thin like she thought she would send me to the hospital to L & D for some monitoring for an hour or so to make sure I'm not contracting regularly and if I was she'd give me meds to stop them. The ultrasound did show that it is beginning to thin out. (No, I didn't find out the sex during the ultrasound...very tempting but we are SOOOO close....I couldn't cheat on myself)  :)

I called my sweet mother and she was up there within minutes. I was really upset before I walked into L & D because of what I went through with Reese who knew how long I'd be in there or if a baby would be coming super early and without his/her daddy here to meet them. I wasn't going to allow myself to get worked up but missing Rhett and Reese at the same time just allowed all emotions to come to surface. Mom hugs are the best! I quickly got over it and walked in to be admitted. They kept me on the monitors, we listened to baby (who did not like being tied down by the monitors) and watch for contractions. I had a total of 4 while I was there, along with an IV bag of fluids just in case my body was dehydrated and was causing the contractions. Once the fluids were gone the nurse called Dr. Tonkin and I guess since there weren't an outrageous number of contractions they sent me on my way. I get to go back to the dr now every week so we'll see what happens on Monday!

I want to thank everyone for their thoughts and prayers. It's too early to have this baby but I trust and know that God is the one in control of this pregnancy and what happens, not me. So why sit and worry about things that are out of my control?? By the way...baby already weighs 3 lbs 5 oz so he/she is definitely ahead! When s/he was measured the weeks said 31 wks and 5 days...so who knows when this little peanut will grace us with his/her presence!? I thought I was further along since the beginning but they won't change the due date...I thought the same thing with Reese and he was born at 37 weeks weighing 7 lbs 6 oz! I sure hope I don't have a 10 pounder! :)