A Rough Few Days...

What was supposed to be the "easy" pregnancy took a turn on Wednesday morning. I awoke around 5 to some horrible pain. At first it kinda felt like contractions in my back then that pain would go away but there was still a dull pain there and it was hard to move my right leg. Wonderful. The pains were pretty regular and they were about 12 minutes apart. After going through my morning routine to get ready for work I felt as if I could be leaking fluid. Could my water really have broken this early?? After getting coverage at work I headed to my doctor to have everything checked out. The good news.... my water had not broken! The bad news... the pain I was feeling.... a combination of contractions that were now about 9 minutes apart and the baby sitting on my sciatic nerve. They sent me over to the hospital for some monitoring and then when the contractions slowed down on their own they sent me home to rest. The last few days I've been trying to take it easy but the contractions still seem to keep coming. A little birdie told me at the hospital not to be surprised if my regualr doctor put me on bed rest next week. We are really hoping that doesn't happen. If it does I'll be looking for that winning lottery ticket everyone wants to find! Until then I'll do my best to be a full time mommy/wife/student/and employee without pushing it too much! Yeah... we'll see how that goes...