The Week After Christmas---Something is Happening!

The day after Christmas, it started out like a stomach ache or severe gas pain. My belly would tighten and loosen, tighten and loosen. From this point until Mary Catherine was delivered, I had contractions. At first it was every 30 minutes or so. Then it got faster. Soon it was every 4-5 minutes. Kevin called the doctor. They told us to come on to the hospital. We got there and they put me on the fetal monitor. I was having contractions but, I was not dialating at all. They gave sent me home. On Saturday the pain was awful. I was having a hard time doing anything but laying down. We went up to the hospital again and they put me back on the monitor. This time, they gave me morphine and sent me home. At this point I swore I was not going back up there until my water broke. The morphine knocked me out for 2 days. When I came to on Tuesday morning, I wasn't getting any fetal movement and it scard the dickons out of me. Kevin called the doctors and they told us to come to the office. We got in about noon and they took us back for an ultra sound. The baby was moving...whew..big relief. Undoubtedly, the morphine had it where I couldn't feel the baby. As the ultra sound tech was about to finish, I said, would you mind flashing that thing over here on my right side and telling me what part of her body this is...it feels like she has had something stuck in my right rib cage the entire pregnancy. The tech flashed the ultra sound that way. She got an odd look on her face and said, "you all will need to have a seat in the lobby and see the doctor as soon as she returns from lunch. " As soon as Kelli Rainwater returned from lunch, she took Kevin and I back. She said the pain I was feeling was the placenta possibly growing into the uterine wall and we would need to do an emergency C Section now. She said that if it was the case and the placenta had grown into the wal and I had tried to deliver, I could have had serious compliations with bleeding. They would have had to go in and try to repair it to save my life anyway. Okay, Mary Catherine is going to come today by C-Section!