FYI this post may just contain a little to much information for some, so be forewarned.
This morning I woke up at about 1:00, because I needed to pee. No big surprise. I had already gotten up a few time during the night. I hadn't slept much during the night, because I was having very sporadic contractions.
All day yesterday I had been spotting, that kind of freaked me out a little, but my doctor had warned me and told me that I probably would, and it was normal. At 1:00am this morning, it seemed to me that I was doing more then just spotting. So I told Kraig we needed to go to the hospital. Kraig was still up so luckily I didn't have to wake him up (sometimes he is hard to get up).
Once at the hospital the nurses hooked me up to a fetal monitor, and took my blood pressure. My blood pressure was at least to me really high, it was 153/83. It also took the nurse a while to find the babies heart beat (that didn't help my blood pressure, it kind of freaked me out a little). She did find the heart beat though, I guess Kate was just turned funny.
Another nurse came in after a while and actually checked me. She said I was dilated to about 1 1/2, she said that they wanted to monitor me for a little while, and said that it looked like the bleeding wasn't causing any problems. She said that every now and then it happens for some reason, but doesn't cause any problems with the baby.
So they had me hooked up to the fetal monitor and was watching the babies heart rate, which was going up and down a lot (I am guessing this is totally normal, they didn't say anything about it???). My contractions were still sporadic they were happening anywhere from 10 to 3 minutes apart, but they were increasing in intensity.
After a few hours of watching me they decided to give me morphine and send me home. They said that the morphine would make me really sleepy (which it did), but that it would either stop the contractions if it was false labor, or make it so my contractions weren't as sporadic as they had been and actually help with labor. I decided to do it, because I hated not knowing if something was going to happen.
Now I am sitting in my bed, feeling very groggy, and ready to go back to bed (the nurse told us that I would probably sleep for about 16 hours). I also feel very spacey still, and not exactly sure of everything going on.
However on a side note when I left the hospital my blood pressure was back down, but still high it was 142/81, and I am dilated to about a 2 now. So who knows what will happen now. They didn't put me on bed rest even though I thought they might, however since the morphine is suppose to make me sleep for 16 hours, I guess they put me on bed rest for today.