On New Year's Day 2015 around 3:30 in the morning I woke up with contractions. I knew they felt like contractions, but I couldn't believe it was labor because I was 32 weeks along in pregnancy. I got up and took a warm bath, but it didn't help too much. Ty found me around 4 trying to sleep on the bathroom floor. We started timing contractions and over the next couple of hours they were pretty steady at 5 minutes apart. We called the hospital and they wanted us to come down to Utah Valley Regional Medical Center.
Once we got checked in, they hooked me up to the baby monitor and contraction monitor. The baby was doing great, but my contractions were in fact labor. The nurse checked my dilation and I was at a 5+, with the contractions and dilation I wasn't going anywhere. Wow! So now what? We were having a baby! They gave me magnesium which helps to stop contractions, but also makes you feel like you have the flu (small price to pay to keep the baby cooking). I also got a shot of steroids to help the baby's lungs, and penicillin to make sure baby and mom are good to go. Contractions eventually did slow and stop, but you can't un-dilate so basically we were on hold.
Friday brought an end to the magnesium (thank goodness), and second (and final) steroid shot, and they put me on nifedipine for the contractions. Nifedipine is a blood pressure medicine, but it would keep my contractions in check, however if my body went into labor again it wouldn't stop it. Aside from just waiting and not knowing, not getting to see Tav was really hard. The hospital has a no visitors under 14 policy during cold and flu season. Luckily we have awesome friends and family that we can call anytime. We also got to go down and get an ultrasound to check on Baby Wade. He looked great! Measurement were on par, fluids and whatnot looked good, baby wasn't under stress, except for the dilation you wouldn't have guessed I had been in labor.
Saturday I was still feeling pretty good, physically, but missed my Tav and going a little stir crazy. Ty and I joked that if Baby Wade was gonna come early it should be today since it was J.R.R. Tolkien's birthday. The day went on pretty well, although that night I started to feel tight down where the contractions were. They didn't last long, never got too close together and weren't painful so we didn't worry too much.
Sunday rolled around and I was feeling pretty good until about 3:30. The tightness I'd felt yesterday had been off and on, but the later in the afternoon the more painful they were becoming. I the nurse put me back on monitors, and baby still looked great, but the contractions were slowly getting closer together and the pain wasn't easing off. By 4:30 it looked pretty promising that Wade was coming. They called the doctor and the anesthesiologist and got the NICU and OR prepped and by 5:55pm Wade was here!
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Since then its just been a whirlwind figuring out Tav, NICU, school, work, etc. We are overwhelming grateful for the prayers and support in our behalf. As Ty wrote: "We are glad you guys are praying for us. We feel all the prayers and blessings being sent our way. Even though this wasn't the perfect way to have a child everything so far has been as perfect as you could ask for. Cass' quick recovering and good health is example of both answered prayers and The Lord making sure we are able to grow our family at this time. Wade has been nothing short of a miracle and the brightness of love that illuminates from him overfills our hearts. Every nurse and doctor here are heroes. If everyone had the charity they have shown us there would be nothing buy joy in this world. They are the truest form of "angels on earth". We are literally in the Lord's care. At the moment all we need is those prayers to keep coming..."
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