Hello ladies, just having a bit of a catch up there as I got home from hospital last night after having to have premature labour stopped!
Didn't feel right whatsoever on Tuesday and it gradually got worse by evening time - was very sore, very crampy, feeling very spaced out and kept running to the loo (both ways!). OH and I sat down to watch a show, and when i couldn't concentrate on it I knew something was amiss. He went to bed for a bit - I hadn't said anything at this stage - and I sat around wondering.
By 10pm I was having what I thought were quite strong BH, and by 11pm they were coming with mild period pain. We got the girls up, dropped them off at his parents and went down to Craigavon. I felt really silly - fully expected to be sent home with nothing wrong - but nope. By the time I was called in to be seen, I knew I was having real contractions. The registrar came in and said I was in early labour, 1cm dilated, and they'd keep me in to try and stop it with medication and give the baby steroids for his lungs.
The contractions stopped while I was down on the delivery suite, so I was transferred up to the ward for observation and to have the full course of steroids - 4 injections in the arse 12 hours apart, lol. All the while I kept having more cramps, period-type pains, some irregular tightenings and a couple of times what felt like more real contractions, but they tailed off.
Eventually, after they checked me again yesterday, they agreed to let me go home for now as I was still only 1cm dilated and not having any regular contractions, plus they were insanely busy. Basically, I'm in very very sloooooow labour and I highly doubt this wee man is planning to wait until April for his arrival!
He's weighing in and around 5lbs, which is good - they're sticking to my original dates which make me 34 weeks tomorrow and 5lbs is decent for that gestation thank God. Been home from last night, wrecked with a chest infection and was up most of last night coughing and running to the loo both ways again. I've got lots of pressure, niggles etc so watch this space - could go on like this for a long time, or indeed he could end up arriving this weekend. We just don't know. Just hoping that if things start up again and fail to tail off, they have a neo natal bed down there!
even cut the ends off the teats in case i got desperate and went bin-hoaking
i still wouldn't have given her bottles after 12 months though, she was perfectly capable of holding and drinking from a sippy cup so didn't see the need!
. I hope it is your last one and you don't end up seeing them again in a couple of weeks.
I wasn't coping well and was horrified at the thought of anyone else seeing me in that state. I felt terrible afterwards though and even asked them to apologise to her. 
feeling a bit sorry for mysrlf
