Well I had been having preterm labor issues since about 24 weeks along, but as of my OB appointment Monday, my doctor had lifted all my bed rest restrictions because Lexi and I had entered the "safe zone." I was on Monday 2cm dilated and fully effaced and her head was at +1 station. My Ob said he fully expected to see me before my 37 week check. Well he was right.
Wednesday at about 4:45pm the hard contractions started after irregular contractions on and of all day. They came fast, and were 3 minutes apart. After and hour I let my husband know and we headed towards the hospital. Scott was so certain it was going to be a false alarm, that he made us stop across the street at the Walmart to make me walk to see if the contractions would keep coming, well they went immediately from 3 minutes apart to 1 1/2-2 minutes apart. I had Scott then bring me to the hospital after a few minutes.
Since I wanted a repeat c-section I knew I had to progress for them to do anything. When the nurse checked, I was still the same as Monday. The nurse said they were going to check me again in and hour and that if I was progressing, they'd call my OB to let him know.
An hour later, my contractions were still coming every 2-3 minutes. The nurse came in and checked me and said, "oh, she's even LOWER. And yup, definitely more than a 2", and hurried out of the room. About 10 minutes later they came in and informed me that my OB was on his way to go on do the c-section. I signed all my consent forms and then they wheeled me back to the OR.
At 9:16 pm, Lexi was born, SCREAMING and didn't stop screaming for over 20 minutes. She got APGARS of 10 and 10 because of her screaming. She weighed 6lb 9.7 oz and was 20 inches long.
She's absolutely perfect in every way, and for a technically preemie, she's doing great and acting like a full term baby. She's bigger than her sister who was a 38 weeker.
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