32-33 weeks

Well after telling everyone that this has been my easiest pregnancy for the past 8 months something bad was bound to happen right?? Last Wednesday life changed as I knew it! What started out as some really annoying pelvic pain became unbearable pinching pain in back's right side by Wed. evening. After not being able to move my legs without crying and having contractions all night I called the doc. who sent me into the hospital for the day. Then came the drugs to stop contractions-lots of pain killers and the poor nurse trying to get me to/from the bathroom as I was in the most intense pain of my life(no exaggeration, this was WAY worse than any other pain I have ever felt-even labor) So after spending the day and having no improvement my doctor let me head home for the night. I had to go back into her office for a visit Friday morning so my mother-in-law had to walk me in very slowly as I cried in pain and had massive contractions. THEN-back to the hospital I went after my doctor saw how much pain I was in. So once I got checked in I spent the next day and a half in my hospital room getting steroid injections to develop little Carlyn's lungs and being high as a kite on pain meds which seemed to do nothing but make me crazy! The physical therapist showed me some exercises to do but here is the problem-I am pregnant so all my joints around my sacrum/pelvic bones are loose and moving around so even when I do the exercises my bones won't stay put until I have the baby. Saturday evening I got to go home with a walker! I couldn't do really anything-it's so ridiculous that getting myself to the bathroom takes 20 minutes and lots of tears! My job now is to stay on the couch and only get up when I have to so I don't have more contractions, and asking for help-which is not easy to do when you are in your own house!

Today (a week later) is the first time I can move without a walker- I am still on pain meds and muscle relaxers but if I go very slowly I can actually walk! Carlyn has moved down some more so instead of pinching horrible pain I am now feeling a really consistent ache in my pelvis and she feels like she's just gonna fall out!

If this pain doesn't go away and she doesn't come out on her own we'll probably induce labor at 37 weeks- so around Aug. 5th! I would really like her to stay in there an bake for a while longer to make sure I have a healthy baby to bring home with me.

I am so excited to meet her :)