Yesterday was day 2 of my hospital stay. Overall it was a pretty good day. I am getting a little bit more used to hospital life. First of all my nurses are wonderful! Lori and Andy have been my nurses so far. I think they work 3 days on and 3 off so today is probably my last day with them. Hopefully everyone is as nice as they are!
The contractions have calmed down some. I am still having cramps and irritability but I am not having the major contractions that I was having two days ago. I was on the monitor for an hour today and only had two contractions. Huge improvement! Two new concerns are my blood sugar and blood pressure. My blood sugar is too high and my blood pressure is too low. With the blood sugar they are concerned about gestational diabetes. I had high levels of sugar in both my urine and blood samples. The doctors think that this could be caused by some of the medication that I am on. They are going to give me another day and then run a 1-hour blood screen to test for gestational diabetes. This is a test where you fast for 1 hour and then give a blood sample. I had this done at 28 weeks and everything was fine. Hopefully everything will check out fine again. The doctor said that there are no major risks to worry about with this. They just want to get everything under control. We will learn more soon I am sure. The low blood pressure is something that I have always had. Pregnancy has a tendency to lower your blood pressure even more. On top of that the medicine that I am on to help with the contractions can lower your blood pressure even more. They will not give me this medicine unless my blood pressure measures a minimum of 100/50. Last night and this morning my blood pressure stayed between 110/42 and 110/45. Finally at about 11am today I measured at 110/50 so that meant I got the medicine.
Yesterday afternoon I got a chance to attend a breast feeding class that was great. I not only learned alot but I got to meet some of the other women in High Risk Pregnancies. It really made me feel bad about complaining so much. First of all I was the furthest along out of all the women and my condition was the least concerning. One woman was 25 weeks and just admitted because she is carrying twins. One boy and one girl. A few days ago the water for the boy had broken. Another woman was 23 weeks along and already 9 cm dilated. The next woman's water had broken at 19 weeks. She was at about 26 weeks when I met her. One woman had placenta problems and her baby was not receiving enough nutrition. She has a two year old at home and has been in the hospital for almost a month. My hearth broke for all of them. Overall you can see that there are so many scary things that can happen. It really put my situation in a whole new perspective. I am thankful for making it this far and I am looking forward to the arrival of a healthy baby! Again thank you for all of your prayers but please pray for all of the mothers who are in High Risk Pregnancies.
On a good note, my nurses are lobbing me a bigger room with a view. The room I am in now is fine but I will take what I can get. Apparently I am on a wait list. I'll keep you updated on the upgrades! Today is pet visit day. No this doesn’t mean that Rusty and Tux get to visit (I wish! I miss them so much!). It means that they have hospital companions that will make rounds. Everyone knows how much I love pets so I am really looking forward to this!
I hope everyone is staying cool out there! I hear it is hot, hot, hot!