The Estes Family Chronicles

23 weeks Pregnant

EEK So here is one of those stories where I totally ate my words! It was only last week I was talking to mother on the phone and we were planning Christmas, Thanksgiving, holiday stuff and coming up with all these marvelous plans. Then my mother gets realistic and says "Haley is this going to be too much for you to handle?" I've already been put on bed rest once during my pregnancy so now that I am no longer on complete bed rest I have conjured up this idea that I am invincible and will be baking pies and sewing mounds of quilts all the holiday season. So I said to her "oh I'll be just fine I haven't had a single pre-term labor contraction yet!" So yesterday I woke up at 6a.m. to help Devin prepare for his border patrol interview and get ready. I am not even half way done ironing his shirt before I'm back in bed because I'm having a contraction!! BROTHER! So much for no preterm labor right??!! I sat around all day and had several more contractions (none that really hurt but a contraction is still a contraction and when your pregnant with twins you cant really just pass it off on good ole' Braxton hicks) So I call my Dr. and tell her, trying ever so hard not to make it seem like a big deal I'm having some contractions. She commanded me to check into labor and delivery regardless of how "minimal" they were. I guess with twins you really cant get off the hook. So I do and I'm their less than an hour before they send me home. They feed me the whole sch-peal if your contractions worsen or increase to about 6 times an hour come back. So now I am back on absolute bed-rest at 22 1/2 weeks and my holiday plans are out the window. A small price to pay for two babies, healthy would be good but at this point viable is much much better.