Life's more fun when you make it interesting

Not really, but that's what we seem to do anyway.

So anyway, Krystal home alone Friday as I was at the hospital on call. Sometime Friday evening Krystal hears the sound of water running coming from the bathrooms. She goes to look with no evidence of any water running. Later on, the sound gets louder, but still no evidence of water anywhere. Worried about a busted pipe, she goes outside to see if there's any water out there.

Upon turning the corner to the front of the house, she sees water coming from the ground in front of the house. After shining the flashlight on it, she realizes that it's the front yard spigot that's been turned on and is gushing water. Next thing she knows she sees/hears the bushes rustling and gets spooked. She quickly tries to get back inside but falls on the way up the steps to the door, though only hitting her shoulder and knees, belly spared.

Needless to say, Krystal's scared and she calls me freaking out. I immediately work things out to leave the hospital and come home to check on her. I get the water turned off and there's no evidence of anyone hanging out in the brush surrounding the house. Krystal decides to go ahead and call the on-call doctor just for safety's sake and peace of mind. On-call doctor decides it's best for Krystal to come in and be watched on the monitor, again just for peace of mind. At this point, she wasn't feeling any more contractions than normal.

Upon arrival and getting strapped to the monitor, little Ava was doing well, moving all over the place, unfortunately Krystal was having 12-15 contractions per hour. At first they decided to wait and see if her midnight bolus of medication would calm things down. Of course, this didn't happen, and of course, Krystal's cervix changed a little bit, from 1cm to 2ish, so they switched from her terbutaline pump to IV magnesium.

Initially wanting to start out with a big loading dose prior to changing to a lower constant rate, Krystal's blood pressure didn't tolerate this, dropping to the 70s over 40s. A slower bolus of magnesium was given and she was then switched over to a maintenance rate. Slowly things began calm down.

Once morning arrived and the doctor came by on rounds, he decided it would be best to restart her pump and slowly back off the magnesium as contractions would allow. Things calmed down well, and by about 3pm, she was off the magnesium and on a new, higher dose of the terbutaline pump. Everything stayed calm, Krystal continued to have her usual rate of about 2 contractions per hour and we were allowed to go home.

33 weeks arrives Tuesday, just 4 weeks until term. Medications will most likely stop at 36 weeks, so we'll see how long miss Ava will decide to wait.

Thanks to all for continued prayers!