Contractions

I woke up around 12:30 am Tuesday night/Wednesday morning to go the restroom (again) and had horrible pressure in my lower abdomen and back. I chalked it up to my growing belly and fought the rest of the night to go back to sleep. I went to work Wednesday and felt the same intense pressure and pain throughout the day. I again thought it was nothing more than Bennett laying on a nerve or something. I ate lunch around 12:30 and by 2:00 had not felt Bennett move (she is usually very active after I eat). I called my doctor and was told to come in immediately. By 4:00 I was in the hospital hooked up to a monitor to check her heart rate and my contractions. I had four or five within the first twenty min. of being hooked up. The doctor choose to admit me and gave me a shot of medicine to stop the contractions. I had to take this same medicine in pill form every six hours throughout the night. The contractions thankfully slowed to only three throughout the night and I was discharged at 9 am with instructions to continue taking the meds until further notice, not to stand for more than ten minuets at a time until Monday, monitor Bennett's movement (she is moving up a storm now and her heart rate was great the entire time....145) and contractions (no more than four in one hour time). I go back to the doctor Wednesday morning and can return to work Monday morning if I feel up to it. The contractions never made me dilate so let's all hope and pray the medicine does what it is supposed to do for the next couple of weeks while Bennett "bakes" a little longer!