31 weeks... what a scare

I was excited as usual about being another week farther along when I started bleeding. I was at home abiding by bed rest and watching a movie on the couch, when I felt the bleeding. My MIL and friend drove me to hospital. Michael was out of town with work and had to rush home. During the trip I started gushing blood. I was terrified! we got to the hospital and the gushing continued for awhile. They ran some tests and did a sono. After about 24 hours the bleeding was down to spotting. They have given me two doses of steroids to try and get Kennedi's lungs to mature a little faster. I'm still on the terbutaline to make the contractions stop. They had to increase the dose yesterday. Right now I'm still in the hospital with some light bleeding. Kennedi has been responding well to all the stress, thankfully. Right now the Dr is waiting to see what will happen over the next few days. Whether or not I will quit bleeding or start back again. He said yesterday that if the bleeding stops that he might send me home on monday. I'm not really looking forward to that. Michael and I have never been so scared as we were that day. There was soooooo much blood and it all happened without any kind of warning. We live 20-25 minutes from the hospital and the Dr informed us yesterday that the next bleed will be worse. All the more reason I'd rather just stay here so that they can do an emergency c-section right away and make sure that her and I both have the best possible outcome. Michael and I told the Dr yesterday that we would prefer to stay just because of the fear. 

I finally got 4 hours of sleep tonight, for the first time in 2 days. But I woke up from a bad dream that I started bleeding again. Michael has been sooooo wonderful and all of our family and friends have been so supportive. I think after this is all said and done Michael is going to need a major massage. He is sleeping on the oh so wonderful pull out beds here in the hospital so that I don't have to be alone at night. His family and our friends have been taking rotations coming by and making sure I'm not alone. Michael has told his work that for now he can't be going out of town again. Thankfully his office is 5 minutes from the hospital. I will keep yall posted as things happen. 
 

30 weeks!!!

We are 30 weeks today!!! I am so happy that we have made it this far. We had the 3D/4D sono this weekend and I started crying as soon as they got the first image of her face. Michael and I fell head over heels in love with her. She was sooooo perfect but we are biased of course!. She was a little TOOT for the first 1.5 hours. She kept burying her head in my uterus and would not let us see her face. We tried moving, drinking apple juice, Michael talking to her and nothing was working. The sono tech was about to stop trying, so I asked if I could try one more thing. I put my legs indian style like I sit at home and leaned back. She fell right down into place and we got the best views of her. It looks like my placenta previa has moved dramatically too! It's still covering the cervix but only barely!! I'm hoping that it will continue to move the rest of the way and I can have a vaginal birth instead of a c-section. She has lots of hair according to the sono tech! I think she has my mouth and nose and Michael's chin for sure. She yawned, cried, and stuck her tongue out at us all within a matter of minutes!! Now I can't wait to just hold her for the first time. I know I'm going to be one of those emotional mothers that cries for days straight after she is born!

Update on our little miracle

Today we went to the Dr for a regular follow up and sono. She has grown sooooo much! Miss Kennedi weighs 3 pounds and 7 ounces now, she was moving all around and everything looked really good. Her weight was in the normal 50% range. The placenta is still covering the cervix completely but she said that from what she could see it looked like it had moved a little! The Dr will continue to keep me on bed rest for the rest of the pregnancy and on the medications but he did decide to move my terbutaline to every 6 hours instead of every 4 since the contractions have been under control and the bed rest is working effectively. I asked if we could go out to eat for my birthday and he said YES!!!! I'm soooooo excited about this. I have been getting really stir crazy with being at home all the time. He said to take it easy and as long as my uterus was behaving then we could go. I've gained 24 pounds total this pregnancy!!! But he says that it's all baby and perfectly normal. We are having a 3D and 4D sono done on sat., Michael said that he finally wants to have one. He had previously said that it weirded him out but he's really for it now. I'm wondering who's nose and lips she's going to have. Our shower invites have gone out and people are starting to rsvp to it. I'm getting more excited because it's getting closer to her coming. The Dr says because we are doing sooooo good that as long as we don't have any bleeding episodes he will do my c-section at 38 weeks. So in about 8 weeks or less she will be here! I can't wait to hold her, I know that I will be crying my eyes out for days. This has been a long time coming for our little baby. I can't wait to see Michael hold her for the first time! He's going to be the best daddy I've ever known!! 

Oh we have been dealing with a stomach bug going around our house. Michael got it two days ago and Meredith started throwing up this morning. I've been taking my zofran to prevent it from happening to me. I'm afraid if I get it that I will go back into pre-term labor. I'm praying that I have a good immune system and can fight it off.