A LITTLE EXCITEMENT LAST NIGHT

Here is the update on the little bit of excitement around my room last night.

I was on the phone with Greg around 8:45 when I started to feel some contractions. I really thought that they were just Braxton Hicks... the nurse later came in and was asking me how painful they were... really they weren't painful... the tightening was just a little uncomfortable. About a 1/2 an hour later I called the nurse in just to see if they could monitor me because I had about 6 of them in that 1/2 hour.

She came back in and said..."Ahhh , those aren't Braxton Hicks, those are real contractions." Hmmmm... they made me use the bathroom, drink more fluids as sometimes those 2 things will get them to stop... NOPE!

They then tried a shot of Terbutaline to stop them... NOPE! So they took me down to labor and delivery around midnight. They checked to make sure I didn't have a UTI that was causing the contractions. They checked and I was dilated 1 cm. and only 25 % effaced. They also did a fetalfibronectin test that determines if you are likely to deliver your baby in the next two weeks. Thankfully that came back negative... so that was a good sign:) They then gave me an IV with lots fluids and another shot of the Terbutaline and thankfully that worked to slow them down.

I was so thankful to God, because the next step was going to be to put me on Magnesium Sulfate and give me more steroids for Levi's lungs... and from everything that I have heard... Magnesium Sulfate is really a big bummer.

They moved me back to my room around 4:30 am. And then I got some sleep:) My doctor came back in this morning and had them cap off my iv. So we will see what happens from here...

Sometimes I wonder if maybe I am having some of these complications or different things happening that haven't ever happened in pregnancy for me before, because Levi isn't genetically ours. Just a thought... Levi has handled it all great... Thank you God for this precious little guy... I just can not wait to set my eyes on him... Will he have blue or brown eyes? Will he have any hair or none at all? Will it be light or dark if he does have hair... oh my... my curiosity kills me sometimes :)

I have been reading Hebrews lately... When I read about the great heroes of the faith in Chapter 11, I am always amazed how it mentions, I think 2 different times, how each of them were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things they were promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance... It goes on to talk about them being strangers here on earth and longing for another home... a heavenly home... It just strikes me that they welcome the things that they were promised from a distance... but do not receive them before they die! That is the true faith... faith when you don't receive what you want... Tried and true faith... faith through the mountaintops and deep despairing valleys of life... Hmmmm I know that I have that faith... but I will be the first to say that my sinful human side does get in the way... Oh Lord keep working in my heart this journey of faith that you have me on...

Here is another verse from Hebrews that I love... lets keep runnning the race friends!!

HEBREWS 12:1-2
THEREFORE, SINCE WE ARE SURROUNDED BY SUCH A GREAT CLOUD OF WITNESSES, LET US THROW OFF EVERYTHING THAT HINDERS AND THE SIN THAT SO EASILY ENTANGLES, AND LET US RUN WITH PERSEVERANCE THE RACE MARKED OUT FOR US. LET US FIX OUR EYES ON JESUS, THE AUTHOR AND PERFECTER OF OUR FAITH...