small taste of freedom

Hospital bed rest days 3-7
25wks 5 days- 26wks 2days.

So I was planning on making a post for every day but for some reason even though I am just laying around ALL the time I still cant seem to find time to catch up. So I will sum thing up in one post.

 On Friday  I was taken off the Mag finally. The Dr wanted to give me a few hours after stopping the mag before we started on the oral meds to stop contractions. Well here i lay 5 & 1/2 days later and I am still not on meds to stop contractions. :-) I have still been having contractions but when they start to get regular and more intense we are still able to stop them without meds.

On Saturday my mom and the kids came to visit which was GREAT!! I miss the kids sooooooooooo much. I am so thankful my mom was able to come help us through all of this.

26 WEEKS!!!!!On Sunday  Mom and kids came to visit and watch the Superbowl with us. They even brought snacks and drinks so we could have a party!! Who would have thought that we would have a Superbowl party in the hospital! I love my family.

On Monday we had lots of visitors! Heather and Alexis came as well as my sister and her family. Stacey brought us a potted rose plant and a "happy valentines Day" balloon. She apologized for the balloon not being specific to our situation. I am pretty sure they don't make a balloon for "keep your legs crossed" or "don't pop your kid out yet". Wes put the flowers in the window for me! They make me smile everytime i look over at them.

 

Stacey and family also brought sparkling cider and glasses to celebrate keeping the baby in longer. Of course Stacey being so camera happy she had to get a pic of everyone.

Tuesday was a big day for me. I was able to get a shower (i was also allowed to get one on Sunday) I was also able to go for my first wheel chair ride. It doesn't sound very fun but being in the same room for 6 days I was going crazy! My nurse told me that the Dr didn't say how long I could be out in the chair but not to be hours. I reassured her that it shouldn't take us long. That I only wanted to get a pretzel and a haircut at the mall then we would be right back. She laughed and said that i was to allowed to go for a wheel chair ride not a day pass. I told her we would take the wheel chair with us! She just covered her ears and was "la la la"ing so she couldn't hear me...sounds like permission to me! Wes wouldn't go for it though. :-(  He did take me all through the halls and to see the gift shop, the outside playground (through the window as it was still to cold to go outside), and he also took me to see Carter’s Corner which honors the memory of Carter James Brown, who was stillborn on July 5, 2005, at Women and Babies Hospital. His older brother, Andrew, lovingly made some crafts for Carter in anticipation of his arrival. Carter’s Corner was established by his loving parents to help the bond between older siblings and new baby. Carter's Corner is an interactive and child-oriented space that offers children waiting at Women & Babies Hospital during the laboring/delivery process the opportunity to create crafts for moms and new siblings. It is a beautiful space that I hope my children get the chance to enjoy while we are here.
We came back from out "walk" and played cards till dinner time. We had stuffed chicken breast, mashed potatoes, soup, salad, peaches, and dessert. The food here is pretty good and the portions are HUGE!! Wes and I have both been able to eat and get full most meals with just the food that I can order!! Bre3akfast on the other hand sucks!!!  Anyway we were playing cards again after dinner when I started to crave a tomato, ham, and fried onion pizza!! I will copy and paste my post from facebook so I don't have to type the story out again.

 

So I was craving pizza like crazy and that is one of the few things that the dinning service at the hospital doesn't have. Wes called Slugger's Pizzeria which is just over 2&1/2 miles from the hospital and they tell him that it is too far for them to deliver so he was going to pick it up but was also told they can't put fried onions on a pizza...fail
So he then calls House of Pizza Lancaster which... is almost 3 miles from the hospital and this time me is told that they can deliver but it will be a min order of $25 instead of the $10 that their menu says and also because of the weather they are not delivering that far tonight....the weather????? you mean because it is to cold and the roads are a little damp from the snow flurries we had HOURS ago?!?!?! So Wesley knowing that I was having a really emotional day already decided he was going to go to Casa D'oria Pizza & Pasta in Wrightsville, the pizza place we order from at home, the one that is about 9 miles away. He gets there and is talking with the owner and the delivery driver about the problems that we were having finding a pizza. Wes was telling them that we live not far and we order from them from time to time and that I am stuck in the hospital for preterm labor and will be here for at least a month. SO the owner and delivery driver both decided that they can deliver out here to us. I was so impressed that a little locally owned pizza shop will go out of their way to make a customer happy!! Casa D'Oria has made very loyal customers out of us!! Oh and their food is AMAZING!!! :-)

 

So our night ended with us both eating more pizza than we should have!