Yay we are down to the single digit weekly countdown! 8 more weeks to go (I'm praying for at least 6 more!)
This last Tuesday I noticed that I was having alot of Braxton Hicks contractions...I figured that maybe I had been overdoing it and the truth is that I had done too much that day (I guess being stubborn does have some downfalls). So I took it much easier the next day...in fact I spent half of my shift at work (at the restaurant) sitting on a stool watching everybody else work! When I got home I took a nap! We had planned on going grocery shopping that evening when Ike would get home from work while Claudia went trick or treating with her friends. It didn't quite work out as planned...I had still been having too many contractions and was quite uncomfortable so instead of heading to Superstore we headed to the Urgent Care Clinic (basically Winkler's version of a walk-in clinic). There I saw a very young but very nice doctor! They discovered that I had a bladder infection which is irritating my uterus and causing the contractions. He also said that this is in fact very serious as it can lead to pre-term labour! I just about started crying! This baby is not nearly ready to come out! He checked the baby's heart rate which was good! He also (ahem) checked my cervix (sooo uncomfortable!) which is still closed! Praise the Lord!!! Then he gave me a prescription for the infection and sent me to the hospital for a non-stress test. At the hospital the maternity nurses (such sweet ladies!!) hooked me up to a fetal monitor which measured the baby's heart rate (Ike recorded the sound of the heartbeat on his phone, at the suggestion of the nurses) and it measured the contractions. I could watch on the machine when a contraction was coming and going (I could feel them too!)...Apparently I was having more than I thought! I had about a dozen in the hour that I was hooked up! Everything I read says that 3 in an hour is enough to be concerned about!! Yikes! At the end of the test the nurse talked to the doctor who had seen me and she came back and let me know that he wanted to follow up with me the next morning...She also gave me a stern talking to about taking it easy and resting MORE! (sigh...very difficult for an independent go-getter/Baldwin). That evening when we got back home I went to tell my boss/great friend about the day and we sadly decided that I would officially be done work as of that day! So far I feel the same or maybe a bit better which is ok...The doctor said that if it gets worse or more painful or if I have a fever to go directly to Emergency, and that they will be keeping a closer eye one me from now on.
Prayer Request #1~ Baby stays in! Infection goes away!
Thursday morning my kitty decides to get sick and is puking everywhere almost non-stop! We decided to take her to the vet to get checked out (I had my follow up appointment that morning anyhow). They couldn't find anything seriously wrong with her just possibilities like bad food or treats, irritated pancreas, or swallowed foreign object. They gave her fluids and an anti-nausea pill and let me take her home to keep an eye on her. She seemed happier but tired and weak like a kid who had been puking all night. The vet asked that I call around noon the next day to give an update so I did....She hadn't eaten or drank anything and was pretty lethargic all day...she also started to puke again that morning. I brought her back in to the vet and they kept her there all day doing x-rays and blood work. Which all came back normal BUT the vet said that soft foreign objects don't show up on x-rays very well so there's still that possibility and she would keep her overnight and give her IV fluids since she wasn't eating. Waiting now for them to call with any updates. I miss my kitty!
Prayer Request #2~ Heal my kitty!
(I am so overly emotional lately that this would just be too much for me to lose her now!)
