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Laboring week

This week was really exhausting. I lost mucous plug tuesday night and wednesday morning. By tuesday afternoon I started having really strong non BH contractions. about 15 minutes apart. Wed they moved to 10 minutes apart so I though maybe this is it. Thursday and Friday were the same. We actually went to the hospital Saturady around 330am or 4am because I was have contractions 5 minutes apart. I 'm still having them 5 minutes apart. I just figured out this morning that this is prelabor just getting my body ready NOT the real thing and can go on for sometime before we meet the baby. So I just need to rest and not get all excited. Dh and I are somewhat sad for this young girl that came into observation while we were there in another room. dh said she looks really young and out of it. Was accompanied by her parents. She came in screaming and moaning and just did not look right. We overheard her mother say she just started having excrutiating pain about 5-10 mintues before she was brought in by ambulance and began bleeding in the ambulance. Things moved pretty fast. There was an emergency nurses and doctors came from everywhere. Stat ultasound revealed no heartbeat her baby had bled out. And her uterus had filled with blood and they needed to do an emergency csection to save her life. With in 5 minutes they had rolled her out to surgery. Dh and I prayed for her and her family. Our heart sunk from the aweful scream she had once finding out her 34 week gestation baby had died and there was nothing that could be done for the baby but they needed to now try to save mom. After losing Morgen last year I have very recent empathy for the young mom. Also being a nurse I know she may never be able to have children if they had to perform a hysterectomy to stop the bleeding. She'd be alive but she'd feel dead inside. Losing her baby and chance to ever have more. I felt grateful this year to be pregnant like A second chance at life even though I can never replace the baby I lost. Little Noah will help ease the pain of my broken heart. The young mommy just turned 16 in March. It felt weird because dh and I daughters will be 14 in a few short weeks. So we felt parent pain and just weird like so close. I can't explain but we talked and prayed for an hour. I was so sad and ready to go home after that. I still want to know if the young girl made it through surgery she looked really really close to death. Like she was bleeding to death. We are still praying for her.

Updates

Sam was very dehydrated when He woke up this am for pain meds. So Had serious prayertime. Coaxed him in to sipping it from the medicine dropper. So I am now getting him to drink some water. Hope to be able to get him drinking from a cup soon.
Sam had 4 of his front teeth pulled. They had died. He is having some problems with his bones right now. I didn't know anything was wrong with him until around February when he kept complaining or ear pain. I never saw any ear problems checking myself. Took him to our family practice doc. even he said his ears are fine.One month later he actually verbalized that Sammy's teeth hurt. So I decided to take him to a dentist. Some days he wouldn't want to eat.. I believe from the pain. The dentist told us then that his teeth felt "spongy" or really soft and suggested we use floridated water( allow him to drink it)To help strengthen his teeth?? One of my children told him that we drink filtered water and use tooth paste that doesn't contain flouride. So the dentist thought it was a simple case of Sam having spongy teeth from a lack of flouride in his diet. But refered us to a ??periodontist,endodontist??? for evaluation. The endo?? thought he felt a tumor or something that didn't belong there in Sam's upper gums. He also wanted to look inside to make sure that it wasn't something really bad or too close to his brain so..... He began xrays and MRI. It appeared to be localized to the area in front of his ear..Hence the pain in his ear for over a month or more. ?? not sure if it was lymph related..ie) drainage or what. but it was removed. Sam had nerve damage all of his front top 4 teeth had died and they had to be removed. the rest of his teeth all had to be capped to protect them. He doesn't know if the teeth still in his gums are alive or dead. Sam has had a few fevers recently and has elevated liver enzymes,elevated platelets and elevated white blood cells. They want to recheck his blood in 2 weeks.
He is to see the endo on thurs for followup. His surgery friday was at CMC under general anesthesia at same day surgery so we came home as soon as they felt comfortable with him leaving. The endo has been calling us alot to check on Sam. Really nice guy. God blessed us with a few good people to care for him. They didn't even give us trouble about our lack of vaccinations. I was kinda worried about that. All were courteous and respectful and didn't act weirded out by us praying for and over Sam. Right before the anestheiologist carried him into the OR we prayed that Sam would be happy,calm ,peaceful and relaxed. He was giggling like a silly little drunk man when he was carried away. A nurse called from the OR after they started working on him to tell us that God answered that prayer that he was giggly till he was put under and that the surgery was going well. it took almost 4.5 hours. She(the RN) called us from the OR to update us hourly which gave me lots of comfort. We were only expecting a 2 hour surgery. Overall things seem God ordained. My only complaint is upon returning home ..i guess the stress had gotten to dh.. he was fairly rude to me all evening.Upset that I had not planned what we'd have for dinner, I hadn't made tea for him. We went to hospital together and stayed there all day together fine. But at home I felt very attacked and just physically and mentally spent. I was too fatigued to even think about anything so I went to bed. Someone woke me up to give Sam his pain med. then I went back to sleep. I didn't really eat much friday or yesterday. I am still quite exhausted. today I am having
less contractions today..like 4-6 per hour so they have spaced out. Had about 10-12 per hour yesterday. But I still feel quite crampy like af cramps. Baby still moves alot. So I am not really worried. I don't feel like I am in real labor anymore like I felt yesterday. It was probably from all the stress.
I still want to finish cleaning my house before I have the baby.
Oh .. Sam is up playing with his cars and coloring and seems better since I 've gotten water into him. I am planning to give him some soft solids today ..like applesauce, potatoes mashed or maybe custard. he is starting to look a bit puny. I appreciate ALL of the prayers for us that we can get. I see prayer working.
I need to rest because I am too tired to behave. May pop in again later. I am getting AOL broadband soon Woohoo...(can't wait)so it will be easier to get on and STAY online without being bumped. Psalm 103:1-5
Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless His holy name! Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits; Who forgives all your iniquities, who heals all your diseases, Who redeems your life from destruction, Who crowns you with lovingkindness and tender mercies, Who satisfies your mouth with good things, So that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.
Blessings,Angie W.

WOW!!!!!

Kayla and David are working their tushes off to help me get the house clean.
They are being such a blessing today!!! I have been trying so hard and feeling so tired.
I hope we can get all accomplished by friday and I can rest till baby is born.
Blessings, Angie