Practice run - 35 weeks

It has been a very interesting week so far. It officially started last Friday evening with Jeffrey. He stayed overnight at mom and dad's house on Thursday night and by Friday evening he was ready to come home. So I drove 1/2 way to their house...about 45 min from our house....and met them in a small town to pick him up. He had been complaining about a stomach ache for a few weeks so when he said he had one I didn't think too much about it. We went to a restaurant to eat and all of a sudden he wanted to lay on the floor b/c his stomach hurt so bad. So there we were in a small town that I have no idea has a hospital or not and, of course, I'm freaking out....I thought it was his appendix. I took him out to the van and let him lie down and he seemed to be fine after a few minutes. The next day we took him to see a doctor and they confirmed that it was not his appendix. Whew! Shane and I thought it was probably a virus.

The weekend was pretty non-eventful other than getting the nursery finished!! (I'll post some pics later) Then on Monday I started getting some stomach cramping along with some other discomforts. Let's just say that anything I would eat went right through me...didn't stay there for long. My initial thought was that I was getting the same virus that Jeffrey had. By Monday night the cramping was so excruciating and would not let up. I finally woke Shane up at 2:30 am on Tuesday morning so he could drive me to the ER. We took Jeffrey with us. Luckily I am pre-registered at the hospital so I didn't have to do as much paperwork. Still had to answer a million questions but at least they knew who I was. To make a long story short I did have a stomach virus....which caused me to get dehydrated and started contractions. The doctor pumped me full of fluids and put some medicine in the IV to calm the stomach cramping. Luckily after that the contractions also stopped. I was discharged at 5:30 am and I finally got some sleep starting at 6:00 am. I still can't eat solid foods other than toast or crackers without my stomach starting to cramp. So needless to say that whole ordeal made me realize that I need to get my hospital bag packed! And it was also a good practice run to the hospital. We all stayed home yesterday and slept. Jeff is also still having occasional stomach cramping as well. I pray that both of us will get over this soon.

Thanks for reading! Only 5 weeks until we meet our little man!

Blessings,
Misty