Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Cervidil & Pitocin

Cervidil & Pitocin

So fun that I can blog from my hospital bed! Here's what we've been up to:

We checked in yesterday at noon and with the first examination we found out I was still only dilated to a 1. At 3:15 my nurse, Gaby, inserted Cervidil which needed to stay in place for 12 hours. During that time we had many visitors such as: Kyle's mom and dad, my dad, Kam Barnes (a very dear church friend), Sharon Gilbreath (a very dear FHTM teammate), my mom, Jenny Helm, Jill Wenzel, Stevie Helm, and Dusty Moore. Around 9 I got to meet my new nurse, Monica (who I love) who gave me some Ambien to sleep and took my vital signs. I slept off and on until 3:15 when the Cervidil was removed and we found that I was dilated to 1.5 but much more effaced. At 4:15 Nurse Monica came in and started me on Pitocin because my contractions were coming pretty closely together and gave me some other medicine in my IV for some nausea I'd been having off and on through the night.

So, with that I am going to attempt to sleep through some of these contractions while I can! What an amazing blessing! I love you Lord!

5 comments:

  1. It is a blessing to be able to sleep through the contractions! I hope Kyle's getting some rest too. Just relax and take it easy while you can. Miss K is just so comfy where she is, but I know she'll love it when she moves out! Love 'ya!

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  2. Jenny, thanks so much for posting updates when you can! It makes me so happy that I can still be apart of y'alls special day even though I live out of town. Your doing so great and soon your baby girl will be here! Can't wait to meet her!

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  3. She's almost here! You'll be holding her before you know it. So excited for you mama!! - Sandra B

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  4. tracking with you Jenny... and so excited for ya'll!!!

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