Our hospital stay

Our hospital stay

THANK YOU to everyone once again for the overwhelming support of love and prayers. It was so wonderful to feel so loved in such a scary time. Lewis and I received so many texts and calls and it truly meant the world to us- so thank you! We were finally released from the hospital on Saturday around 11. I like to think we had a practice run for when Baby K arrives. 
Here is a summary of our hospital stay:
I was taken in an ambulance on a stretcher to the ER at Baylor. During our ride, I was hooked up to a blood pressure machine and it was producing some very funky numbers and it made me very nervous because your blood pressure is one of the first signs that something can be wrong with the baby. The EMT just laughed at the numbers and said he didn't believe the silly machines (seriously!?! What's the point of them if they are inaccurate? Just bizarre to me) Anyhow, they first had me checked out by everyone in the ER. Everything was looking good and it made me calm down a little. The weird thing was no one would give me any water. They said it was incase they needed to do an emergency c-section. So then I was super nervous again. (keep in mind during all this time i didn't have Lew with me. He was still at the scene dealing with the cops and the situation). Finally, Lew showed up they released me up to Labor and Delivery. When we checked into LD they had me put on a hospital gown and this was hilarious! Those things are hard to figure out- Lew and I kept laughing and turning it in every direction to figure it out, finally did! Once again, I asked for water and they wouldn't give it to me either (it was making me nervous they kept speaking of an emergency c-section) They hooked me up to machines that would monitor the babys heart rate and as Lew called it a TACO machine that monitored if I was having contractions. They took my blood to send it off to make sure my blood and the babys wasn't mixing. They also called in a specialist to do a sonogram to make sure there wasn't blood or the placenta separating. You feel fine but at points the Doctors briefly mention all these possible complications and you just sit there and pray that your baby is just perfect and nothings wrong. The specialist arrived and they wheeled me into the room to do a sonogram, after everything appeared good she did a 3D one for us. Lew was absolutely loving this part because you can see her nose and features for real, she has a full head of hair and it was adorable! The DR also said she was a big baby weighing around 7 pds?!? ( Ugh excuse me? She is suppose to gain half a pd a week- so that would put her around 9 pds = huge!) The specialist noticed that I had 6 contractions in about 15 minutes and decided we needed to be kept monitored over night. We were taken to a special high risk floor (once again that makes me nervous because I thought everything was coming back positive). The sweet nurse explained that the objective of the floor was to keep babies in where Labor and delivery was to get babies out. They hooked me up to machines again and monitored the baby and my contractions. Everything was looking great with her and my contractions were not consistent enough that they took off the monitors in the evening. That evening seemed to go by very slowly since I was in pain and hospital beds are not comfortable - and they deliver dinner at 4:45 ha! Lew had a chair that extended into a "bed" and that looked even more uncomfortable. Finally, it was morning! I was hooked up to the monitors once again and things were still looking good! Praise the Lord. Now we just waited for the DR but there was no definite or even round about time for the rounds. Finally, around 11 the DR came by and released us- yippee! The rest of Saturday I just laid in bed and slept. It was so nice to get home and know that everything checked out well. Lew has been taking fret care of us and my sweet Lady just snuggles in bed with me to take care of us. What a crazy 24 hrs but can't thank God enough for keeping us protected in what could have been a tragedy. Praise the Lord and my sweet Angel Daddy.