Here we go!!!!!

At 7:20am this morning, my water broke!!! Thankfully Chris was home and was just about to get into the shower before he left for work. We called the OB who told us to come on down to the hospital. After soaking a waterproof pad and about 4 towels, 3 pair of underpants, we made it. No real contractions yet and the OB doesn't feel any reason to rush into Pitocin. We are going to wait and see what happens naturally and go from there. I'm on IV antibiotics to prevent an infection and to cover me in case I am Group B strep positive since I hadn't had that test yet. They took the culture in WETU because the pediatrician likes to know if mom was positive or not. My cerclage was removed successfully by my OB once I got up to the LDRP room. I feel so relieved to have that out.

I'm still in shock that I'm here in a hospital bed listening to his heartrate with an IV going. I am having some very mild contractions at times but it's more like uterine irritability than anything else. Sunday I will be 36 weeks. I'd like to make it till then but if it happens sooner, I'm told he will most likely do very well and may have a short stay in the NICU or the CCN for a few days. He may not be able to go home with me which was my main goal. I need to prepare myself to leave her possibly without him. That will be really hard for me.

Work friends and mom have been here to visit. My GD is suddenly behaving. It will be interesting to see what my blood sugar is tomorrow. So far I am having a stellar day although I didn't take any insulin this morning and didn't eat till lunch. I had way more carbs than usual at dinner and took my insulin and my blood sugar was perfect. They go by calories here, not carbs. Now I'm thinking I would have starved less on a calorie diet than what I was following. Oh well.

My baby boy is going to have an early June birthday. Tomorrow is Corinne's 20th birthday. Wouldn't it be interesting if Chris has 2 kids with the same birthday by 2 different women??