Hospital already!

June 8, 2004
Yesterday was the most eventful day I have had since becoming pregnant. I was in the hospital from 06:00 to 18:00 last night. I was having very bad stomach and back pain Sunday night but it would come and go. I ended up paging my doctor and he instructed me to go on bed rest and drink lots of fluids. He said if I didn't start feeling better to come into the hospital and he would meet me there. I thought I could make it through the night and would just go see him once his office opened however, I was up all night in pain and around 04:30 I couldn't stand it anymore so I asked Jack to take me to the ER. I ended up being sent to the birthing center since I am so close to 20 weeks they hooked up all the monitors to the babies and myself. They could not find one of the babies heartbeats for nothing. The poor nurses tried everything! (and I was scared that something was wrong) I was having very mild contractions but nothing to worry about it. Our doctor finally arrived and they did an ultrasound to ensure both babies were fine. They both are fine alright! Baby A was doing flips! I am not kidding! Jack and I were AWE...that baby was just flipping around and moving like crazy! Baby B is the lazy one he/she just laid there and would kick it's feet every now and then. We seen their legs,arms, noses and mouths both had solid heart beats and were doing great!

The doctor said he wanted me to have an ultrasound because he suspected I had either a kidney infection or gallstones. Come to find out I indeed have gallstones! I started feeling much better after I ate the liquid lunch they provided me. The very mild contractions were due to me being dehydrated. The doctor also checked to make sure my body had not tried to dilated and it had not! (shew!) So I will watch my FATTY food intake and will continue my 2000 calorie diet. We will take the gallstones out after the babies get here (unless they continue to cause me problems which he doesn't think will happen) The doctor also told me I had the gallstones prior to getting pregnant and that I didn't know until now because of all the changes my body is going through.

We still don't know what they are, but hopefully will find out on Monday! Jack was hoping he would see boy parts yesterday while they were doing the ultrasound, but he didn't see anything! So hopefully they will both show us what they have come Monday! :)

There you have it- the latest on the 3 of us! Take Care!