Well with band competitions over we have been able to start having the "older" Cook boys more often! It has been such a blessing to, they are so good with their little brother. Since they had the day off school Monday we were able to have them from Saturday until Monday. And it was a good thing to! Sunday I woke up (well crawled out of bed around 10:30) not feeling that great. Which with this pregnancy isn't that odd. I didn't necessarily feel sick just drained; my "tummy" never seems to feel to right with the lovely contractions I get to have (yes they are still here and not wanting to go away). James made his usual weekend breakfast for us, I love the potatoes he makes, but I just wasn't in the mood to eat. So I decided when K.C. went down for a nap that I would to. Well it ended up I had the dang flu! I don't think I have had it since I was like 14! I never got "morning sickness" with K.C. or this lil guy so this really sucked! It didn't last that long though and by that evening the flu part of not feeling good went away, all thanks to the fact K.C. was kept busy by his Daddy and bro's. He did occasionally have to come in to give me some loves though. Finally around 11:30 I felt good enough to eat, nothing like a few crackers and an apple :). James told me I better eat and drink more water, but nothing really sounded good so I didn't. But around that same time my "tummy" started to ache but not stomach flu ache, this just felt different, so I went ahead and took my medication for contractions in hopes that it would just go away. James decided to sleep in another room cause he did not want to catch whatever I had, I didn't mind I knew I would probably be doing a lot of tossing and turning anyway. I really felt like I should go in and get checked but didn't want to feel like I was over reacting. So I decided to wait the hour I was told to and see if the contractions would go away. I went ahead and took a bath and tried to get some sleep. I woke up still feeling contractions around 2 and did some more tossing and turning. The contractions were not getting any better and for the first time they actually felt like real labor contractions. I finally called the labor and deliver and told them what was going on, I wasn't sure if what I was feeling may have just been a result of being sick that day. They told me to go ahead and come in to make sure that everything was all right. So, not really wanting to, I went and woke up James to have him take me in (this was about 3:40am ish). The nice thing is we had the boys so we didn't have to worry about what to do with K.C. (especially nice since my parents think they have to go to WA to visit with other family for the whole month..... who do they think they are anyway! :) )
So we get to labor and delivery and they get me all hooked up to the monitors and sure enough I am contracting pretty regularly. (I forgot to add that the pills I took at midnight were my last ones! another reason I felt the need to go in). The doctor comes in and decides to run a bunch of test to find out what is going on. He does another fetal fibronectin test, a strep B test, and checks my cervix. My cervix doesn't appear to have changed since the last time I was in (10 days prior), it is still soft and opened a finger tip wide (which is something you like to hear more along 36 weeks and not 26 weeks) and appears to not have gotten "shorter". So that was good news. While waiting on the other test I get to have a lovely IV, yeah! (ya... not!!) Since I hadn't really eaten anything in the last 24 hours my sugar was low and I was a bit dehydrated. So I got to have a liter of Dextrose 5 and a liter of normal saline. I now know why and appreciate that our local ambulance keeps all their bags of fluid on a warmer. The fluid was so cold and from my elbow down my arm was achy and cold. The doctor also gave me 20 more milligrams of the nifedipine. He let me know that getting some sugar and fluid back into me along with the medication should ease the contractions. He was right! While waiting for the test results I was finally starting to fall asleep. And after what felt like forever waiting for the test he finally came in and said that everything came back negative, YEAH!! So we know that there should be no baby for yet another 2 weeks! So after being in the hospital for yet another 4 or 5 hours of this pregnancy we were able to go home. On the way home I made sure to make James stop at the pharmacy to pick up my prescription that had been sitting there for.. oh just a few days :) The pour guy still had to do a full day of work! I on the other had been able to go back to bed until 1 when the boys had to go home. I am so glad that my step sons are such a big help when it comes to helping out with K.C.
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| Almost 28 weeks! |
Early Tuesday morning I get a text from my babysitter saying her whole family was sick!! That was a panic! With my parents in WA we really don't have anyone else to watch him on short notice. But James did some thinking and called a friend whoes wife runs a daycare in Homedale. But her rates are good and we both have to be at work so Homedale it was! It was kinda scary cause this was his first time K.C. had to go to a "daycare". I got to go pick him up after work and found out that he had a great day! He even made himself a friend. He had to go on Wednesday to and yet again he did great. I was so thankful that he had some where to go. With me on reduced hours I really can't take off any more time at work, and James is always busy!
Well poor Keegan was another victim of the flu :( not sure if Cameron ever got it. We think that K.C. may have had a touch of it, he had some bad diapers over the weekend and ended up with a lil rash but for the most part he was pretty good. And then my poor hubby ended up not feeling well on Wednesday evening. He didn't end up getting the stomach flu like the rest of us though, lucky guy!! I hope that this is the end of the flu for our family though!!
So I think it is time to start potty training K.C. He has decided to become a stripper! The other morning James went in to get him out of bed and he was butt naked! Oh and he decided to go #2 in his crib for Daddy. It was really hard not to laugh at this and be thankful I was at work :) He has also pulled this lil prank for the babysitter to, but not the #2 thing just #1 in his playpen. He thinks it is funny to take his pants off and then his diaper at home to. I have been starting to ask him if he has to go potty and then taking him to the bathroom so he can sit on the toilette but he has yet to actually "go". The cutest thing was what I got to see this morning when I went into his room to get ready for work and kiss him goodbye. There it was this cut lil "full moon" sticking straight up in the air. Not sure when during the night he decided to sleep in his "birthday suit". But I ended up having to wake him up so that I could change all his sheets and blankets and of course put clothes back on him so he could get some more sleep in a dry bed. But it really was so cute.... I had to take pictures :) He is going to love me when he gets older!!! But oh how I LOVE all my "mommy moments"
