Baby Holmes had an eventful weekend last weekend, but everything is looking good now. I did most of my Christmas shopping on Saturday morning and wore myself out. I woke up at 2am on Saturday night in a little pain but did not think much of it. After tossing and turning for another hour I got up and tried to make the pains go away by drinking water, sitting on the couch and walking around. I finally realized that these pains were coming in waves from my back to my abdomen and were hardening my belly. I googled to see if maybe it was braxton hicks contractions, but the information I read pointed to labor contractions. By this point I got in the shower to see if that may stop the contractions, it did not. John woke up at this point and started timing them and found that they were between 4 and 2 minutes apart!
We were in no way prepared for any of this so we had to look through tons of papers to even find the doctor's emergency number. We called and waited 10 minutes with no answer! We finally called the hospital to see what they thought we should do and got the "why didn't you come in 2 hours ago! Come straight to ER answer."
We got to the hospital and went to labor and delivery where we were hooked up to the monitor for several hours. The good news is that I was not dilated. The doctors there gave me a shot to stop the contractions and then monitored me for another hour or so. The shot worked and the contractions stopped. They put me on modified bed rest until I could see my doctor on Wed.
My doctor said everything looked good on Wednesday and that I need to take it easy and not do too much at this point in the pregnancy. He also advised that I drink a gallon of water every day! I am glad that everything is looking good!
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