I just wanted to give everyone an update about the last 24 hours. Sorry if I’m too brief, I’m just really exhausted.
We went to the hopsital around 9 o’clock last night because I was “leaking fluid” (sorry tmi)
We were pretty terrified, I cried the whole way up there. It was so scary because I lost my other girls at 18 wks, then at 19 wks… and that’s exactly where I’m at now. 
When I got there, they hooked me up to the contraction monitor and started checking to see what exactly was going on.
Thank the Lord, it turned out that it was NOT my water breaking!!! I have never been so happy to be wrong in my whole life! (Although now I’m kinda freaked out, cuz I have no clue what that was) lol
But I had been having some cramps throughout the day… not as bad as my usual ones, but still painful. The monitor picked them up, which caused some concern, so they checked me for dialtion.
They said it felt like I was about 1 cm, so I needed to stay the night and have a cervical ultrasound check in the morning to make sure that I was still closed on the inside at least.
Walter & Nathan were sad to leave me up ther by myself, but I promised to call if anything changed.
I stopped having the contractions around 2:30 am, and was finally able to fall asleep. My dr. came in around 8am and checked and said I had gone down to a “fingertip dilated”, but he said I don’t need to be dilating or contracting AT ALL at this point. I was kinda surprised that they were so concerned about the contractions, because they weren’t as bad as some that I have had recently and tried to ignore. So now I feel kinda guilty for not going before now.
Anyways, the ultrasound said my cervix is long and closed, which is good. My dr. is going to tlak to a perinatologist about putting me on progesterone injections to stop the contractions from occuring again.
I’m so glad he’s finally taking it seriously, I had told him a couple weeks ago that the contrax were bothering me, but he kinda blew it off as “braxton hicks”.
All in all, Emily looks great, and it looks like now I will be able to try something new to help keep her in for a while longer.
Goign to that hospital is always really hard on me… some of the best and worst memories of my life have happened there. Luckily, I was able to get the same nurse who went through all of the insanity with us when I was pregnant with Nathan. She is really awesome and knows our history… it helps so much when you have someone who understands.
I’m really sore and really exhausted, but VERY relieved and thankful to be home. I will be taking it easy for awhile. If I don’t, Walter will seriously chew me out! lol
~Amber
