Flanagan Clan

I’m not going to go into the full story, but some of you might have gotten word that I’m on bed rest. At 1 AM this morning I woke up with sporadic but painful contractions. We contacted my doctor, who had me come in to get checked. After noting that I was 50% effaced and 2-3 cm dilated, he wanted me to go to the hospital for observation. After being hooked up to monitors for an hour, they gave me a shot of some medicine to stop the contractions, and then I spent another 3 hours for further monitoring. The medicine managed to control the labor, and when they were satisfied that I wasn’t contracting further, they let me come home. However, for the next week I’ll be taking the medicine that they used to stop the contractions, and I’m on bed rest. No lifting, very limited stair climbing, no long periods of standing, etc. The doctor would like me to make it at least one more week (36 weeks), to give the baby a little more time to finish developing. Both Patrick and Sammy were born prematurely at 36 1/2 weeks with very little problems, so I’m hoping I can hold out until then. Anyways, everything appears to be fine now. My mom has the boys for the night, and this next week she and Andrew will be available to help me care for them.

All I can say is that I’m glad that I got most of the things ready for the baby so much ahead of time. I wasn’t able to get everything done that I would have liked, but for the most part everything is in order for this new little one to come.