rollercoaster

This pregnancy has had so many ups and downs, I have really felt like I am on a rollercoaster ride. Saturday I felt great. Perfectly normal, walking around I didn't even really feel pregnant. Then Sunday came and I felt the effects of Saturday. Sunday was a day that I just felt like I shouldn't be doing much becasue I felt very pregnant (hard to explain)... Anyway but I wasn't too worried becasue I have days like this all the time. I call them my bad days.

Monday I woke up and every little thing I did made my stomach get super hard. Like I couldn't even stand up from sitting without my stomach contracting. I still wasn't too nervous and just took it easy. Later that day though, I started to feel cramping in my lower stomach and back, like dull mentrual cramping. This is when I started to worry, becasue it was very similar to how I felt when I went in to the hospital for Mason and Carter. I drank tons of water, and layed down all afternoon and evening. I talked myself in and out of calling my doctor over 20 times. Finally when Jared got home he told me just to call her because he knew I wouldn't stop worrying until I did. She told me just to go get checked to be on the safe side. Luckily my mother in law was in Payson for a baseball game and was able to come over and put Ava to bed. It was very nice to not have to take Ava to the hospital. Short story: we get there, they hook me up to moniters and there is definately uterine irritation, baby is fine, and I am still just dilated to a one. Good news! The cramping was not going away though, so after monitering me for about an hour they gave me 2 percocet and sent me on my way to get a good nights sleep in my own bed. The percocet worked wonders and calmed my uterus down and when I woke up the crampiness was gone.

Silly me, I thought since I was feeling great again that going to a park with Jared and Ava wouldn't be a big deal. I would just sit on the bench and watch them play. We got there and I was sitting watching them play drinking out of my trusty hospital mug (plenty hydrated), when I started to feel slightly nausous. A minute or so later I just had to lay down because I felt very faint. So I layed on the grass which helped a lot. I still couldn't sit up though or I would feel very dizzy. So I told Jared I needed to go home. I didn't think I should drive so we left Jared's car and headed home. In the three minute drive to our house I went from bad to worse and was blacking out and felt so nausous. I felt like I was going to die. I couldn't hold myself up and just felt terrible and was collapsing on Jared's shoulder. I ended up throwing up 3 times and for some reason that helped a lot. I wasn't blacking out anymore, but still felt sick and very weak and weird. We went to the doctor that afternoon and it turns out that this is a normal pregnancy symptom. Everything looked fine, so as long as it doesn't start happening regularly I guess I am just supposed to not worry about it. We are hoping that we don't have anymore scary days like this. I think my doctor needs a break from me.