It’s been a very long time since I’ve updated, but not much has been going on.

Baby J came a little over a week early on January 26, 2010!

At 1pm on January 26th I started having mild contractions and bleeding. I had to wait for my husband to come home from work (takes him about 45 minutes) before I could go to the hospital. The contractions weren’t getting any worse, but they were getting closer together.

It was almost 2:45pm when we got to the hospital. They hooked me up to the monitors and checked my cervix. I was still 3cm and 100% effaced. They decided to monitor me for a couple of hours to see if I progressed any.

The nurse kept coming back and forth. She kept trying to get me to eat because she said the baby wasn’t moving like how they wanted him to. I ate one cracker and ended up throwing it up. The contractions were starting to get worse, but according to the monitor, they weren’t getting any closer together.

At 5:30pm, they told me that they were thinking about sending me home. I was still having contractions, but the bleeding had disappeared. The nurse never bothered to check my cervix again, but offered to do an ultrasound. She brought me some ice chips while I waited for the u/s techs to come get me. I put one in my mouth and felt like I had to vomit.

At 5:45pm, my water broke and it had meconium in it. The nurse checked my cervix again, and I was 10cm dilated. Baby J’s head was right there, so they had to rush me to the delivery room. I had no time to get any meds, and my doctor was still on her way. They had to hold my legs shut.

I was hooked up to an IV by the time she arrived. She was trying to make small talk, but all I wanted to do was push. I told her that I couldn’t wait. Five pushes later, Baby J was born weighing 6 lbs. 11 oz.

Early the next morning, he had to be transported to MUSC’s NNICU for an exchange transfusion due to ABO incompatibility. We brought him home on Saturday.