1 week down...

It has been exactly 1 week since I got admitted to Centennial Women's. I'm not meeting as many new nurses anymore, I've had them all at this point. There has only been one in the mix I didn't like very much but I'm still trying to figure her out. Our conversation this morning went like this:

Nurse: "Can I get you anything?"

Me: "Not really, I'm about to shower though and was thinking if someone could change my sheets, that'd be great." (it had been 3 days since they changed them and I sweat a lot at night because of my hormones, haha)

Nurse: "No problem, I'll do it." (goes to get sheets, comes back) "The sonographer is on the floor and will need to see you, so hurry in the shower."

Me: "Should I wait then? I don't mind waiting."

Nurse: "No, go ahead, but don't be in there all day or she'll be sitting around waiting on you."

Me: "Well okay... I don't usually take long showers but they also never tell me in advance when they are coming, they just show up, so..."

Nurse: "I know, just hurry it up."

Wow. Really? I don't like being rushed... I look forward to my morning showers after sweating in bed all night. But I don't like being rude so of course, I rushed... and then sat around for another half hour after my shower waiting on the sonographer. Either way, who said I was going to take all day in the shower?? Mind you, this is the first older nurse I've had so maybe she feels the need to be motherly in some way... all the others aren't much older than me and we actually have conversations and laugh. I like the staff here. Maybe I'll learn to like this nurse, too... maybe she was just trying to be sarcastic/funny... but it sure didn't come off that way. Part of it could have also been that the songrapher had zero personality and maybe the nurse didn't want to deal with her... she was a tough cookie... had motorcycles on her scrubs, too.

The ultrasound showed that Zoey weighs at least 4 lbs and I am excited about that! Usually the measurements come in a little small, so I can assume she's probably more like 4.5 lbs. I am excited to see how big/small she really is at birth... I was 5 lb 12 oz so we'll see if she's close! I am just glad she's at least 4 lbs right now... most of the time, hospitals will let you go home with a 4 lb baby... sometimes they wait until 5 lbs, but either way, I feel more confident she'll be able to come home with me in normal time. As usual she looked great on the ultrasound... her belly and head were more at 33 weeks and I'm supposedly at 31, so yay for that too :) She is just growing, growing...

As for my cervix, it looks like things are the same, which is good news! It hasn't gotten any worse. It's still contracting and morphing in size, but it didn't go smaller than before, so that is good. I'm having more contractions during the day, but not enough to do meds yet. Sometimes I don't even feel them, they just show up on the monitor... other times I feel a strong pressure and tightening up, followed by a hot flash that makes my whole body break into a sweat.

In other good news, my feet are 100% back to normal! I noticed after one day on complete bed rest the swelling was gone. They are back to their bony selves ;) I can't wait to try my old shoe size... it's nice to be able to wear socks. I couldn't for a while; they just cut into my ankles. I'm watching my hands intently and waiting on them to go down, too... they went up a ring size so I currently have a sterling silver, Celtic-looking, Mother of Pearl ring in place of my wedding set. I do like this ring a lot but I miss my wedding rings... however, I think Mother of Pearl is appropriate and this is something I can pass down to Zoey some day :) My hands don't really look swollen, but this size 6 still fits snuggly on my ring finger and that tells a different story.

So things are going as well as they can at the moment. I am on the hunt for inexpensive/used premie clothes so I have a few things in case newborn sizes don't fit her. I've been looking on eBay and it kills me that people will sell a set of 10 outfits for $10 then try to charge $20 for shipping. Sorry, but I'm not buying. Let me know if you all happen to find some good places to buy preemie clothes for cheap... I did find PreemieStore.com which has some Walmart prices on their clothes, but the website is really poorly put together and that turns me off a bit. Everything in the web development, from the colors to the fonts, is just ugly and doesn't make me want to shop with them.

Any ideas?