Hospital: Day One

Eeeeeek!

Here we are…all quite surreal today, feeling like a bit of a whirlwind! Thinking back over the last four weeks, it all seems a bit hard to remember how we got here. In my trackie pants and hoodie, I hopped into the car this morning with Mr T, and we left our little house in Cranbourne North to enter the world of the total unknown. Packed way too much as usual, as I was totally unsure of what to expect, the midwives probably think I’m staying for good!

Jerry dropped me out the front, parked the car and took me in…many interesting and varied sights I saw, before I even entered the front door.  

On arrival everybody was lovely, and there are three other lovely ladies in my ward also all on bed rest. Some of them have been here for weeks already. Nice positive vibes…

We had another scan today with the obstetrician, carted around in a rickety old wheelchair by Mr T through the halls of Jessie Mc. Good news and bad with today’s scan, but not surprising news.

Baby T is growing very well, already measuring at 750g, about a week and few days ahead of her current gestation. She is also a girl, which gives her another good chance of survival outside my tummy, I’ve had my steroid shots, my membranes and waters are intact and my placenta is functioning as it is supposed to, and keeping her safe. My cervix is still misbehaving and has now started to open, dilated by .5cm- with the constant and gradual shortening I have experienced so far this is what I expected today. The obstetrician suggests that at this stage there is no way of predicting what can happen, but that as I have had no signs of preterm labour as yet, it is likely that my cervix is weak and incompetent…we won’t know for sure until the next time we get pregnant (right now though….that will never, ever be happening!!)

They will monitor me from now on, and the obstetrician will come to visit every day to check on me and my weak parts. There is another new treatment they will give me over the next few days through an IV. They give you magnesium over a four hour period, to further prevent brain damage in little BabyT, that will probably happen over the next couple of days.

I’ve ordered my meals for the next few days, and the food is actually pretty good. Tonight was roast lamb and veggies.

Mr T is holding up super well and is such a gentlemen, he will stay with me as long as he can tonight until I get sleepy, so I can get through my first hospital night.

We passed the time tonight…looked at each other a lot, watched an episode of Entourage on my laptop, ate some chocolate, and looked at each other some more.

All in all though, another day down, another day better for Baby T…keep on cooking Baby Girl…