Let's start this off with letting you know that everything in the end turns out all right. Daniel left on Friday morning for a TDY that requires him to be out of town for a full week. Friday evening around 6:30pm I started feeling what I thought were Braxton Hicks contractions. They weren't going away and there didn't seem to be any space between them and I was feeling incredible pressure and abdominal pain. After about an hour of this I called the OB on call nurse who told me it was just indigestion. Well 10min after that phone call I was having trouble breathing and Alan was getting concerned so I called one of Daniel's co-workers that lives down the street to come watch the boys. When he got here and saw me he also offered to drive me to the hospital. I did NOT turn him down. We loaded up the boys and off to Labor and Delivery we went. (Dave had just been there 2 weeks earlier welcoming his daughter into the world a month early). I got checked in and spent about 4-5 hrs in the triage waiting for labs to come back. My doc walked in asked me where he pain was the worst and said that this must be baby #3 or #4 as this is quite common to have severe ligament pain. So the good news was we were not going to face the horrible things that can happen when you go into labor at 24weeks. The bad news is that I have to stay off my feet (not on bed rest though as I wasn't dialating or anything) and keep up with Alan and Eddie without Daniel for a week. Thankfully his cousin, Rachael, was able to come and help with the boys for the weekend, but had to go back to Pensacola to work this afternoon.
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