HOSPITAL VISIT

The week started out calm and great. Monday I had a Doctor's appointment and everything was going good. Tuesday I took the kids to the park and had another wonderful day. All the kids did great and Cameron was super helpful. Today was when the craziness began. I woke up this morning and had my bleeding issues again. I called the doctor like usual. They wanted me to come down to St. Joe's to have a level 2 ultrasound to see how the baby was doing and check things out. This means I had to have mom and dad come and watch the kids and drag Ben out of work because I did not want to go by myself. We got to St. Joe's a little after 11 and everything with the baby looked great. My placenta continues to be low laying and this is causing the bleeding. The perinatologist recommended an amniocentesis and I was very nervous about this and really wanted to just go home and give the baby some more time. The amnio was recommended to determine how developed the babies lungs are in order to see if the baby would be safe to be delivered at this time. After some convincing from the doctor we did agree to the amnio. We had to wait at St. Joe's for the results and we did not get those until almost 3:00. The amnio indicated that the baby's lungs are not developed enough yet. Due to the fact that I was still have some bleeding the Doctor admitted me to the Antepartum unit here at St. Joe's for 24 hour monitoring. If the bleeding gets better I am very hopeful that I will get to go home tomorrow. Then I am sure I will have to take it pretty easy until the baby is ready. I guess I should not have kept saying I was not ready because it is not up to me as I learned today. This little baby is the one in control from now on. I will keep everyone posted on our progress.