Quiet weekend - almost 26 weeks

This Labor Day holiday weekend has been fairly quiet and I am so ever grateful. Tomorrow is officially 26 weeks for us, and one week closer to less issues if our little girl were to decide to come early. I find I'm a bit anxious now that I'm back at home since our last hospital stay. Anxious since I know we may be treading on borrowed time.The procardia has made the contractions tolerable. Even though I do have a lot less contractions on this higher dose of procardia - they are still strong enough that I wake up several times throughout the night. Sometimes they feel pretty strong or uncomfortable - but usually after about 15 minutes to a half hour they will die down enough that I can fall back asleep. Usually I can sneak about 2 hours or so before I'll get woken up again by them. I figure if I can catch a couple hours of sleep here and there - I'm doing okay. I've been told by a few people that the getting woken up every couple of hours is good practice for when Spot gets here - usually I just try to smile and nod....but I don't think they realize that I'm just trying to get through this moment - and have trouble thinking that far ahead some days, LOL!

I also took a cue from my fellow partner in crime Meredith to try to avert some of the head rushing, headache, hot flash, dizziness that the procardia brings. She suggested trying to sleep with a cold wet wash cloth on my head - that definitely helps, so thanks Meredith! Also, trying to take it with food has helped some of the pounding headache that goes with it sometimes. For whatever reason I find I get the worst headache from my earliest morning dose. But enough complaining - I don't want to give anyone reading this a headache as well, LOL! If you do have a moment - go say hi to Meredith and give her good thoughts. She's going into her third week of being in the hospital and has been battling preterm labor like a pro.

My parents stopped by today and brought some food over. Nothing like some home cooked comfort food from mom and dad to make a girl feel good. And my mom also brought over two big bags of things for the baby - clothes, receiving blankets, and other goodies. Maybe if I have a moment I'll take some pictures of my favorite couple of outfits. I just sit and look at them sometimes when I'm having a down moment - just to remind me of what's the prize at the end. Our dresser for the nursery finally arrived as well, and my husband is going to assemble that tomorrow. Most of the weekend I spent trying to watch some light hearted movies to take my mind off of things. I liked What Happens in Vegas with Cameron Diaz, and we also watched 21 about the MIT students and counting cards. Later tonight I might catch The Other Boylen Girl if I can't fall asleep. Of course, I've been faithfully following Big Brother as well.

I've been the world's worst blogger and commenter lately - but the dizziness makes reading some on the computer hard sometimes. Not that I'm making excuses - but know I still am trying to check in when I can to see how everyone is doing. I think of everyone often and truly hope that things are going well for everyone! ( Shhhh - it's not official....but I think we might have a front runner for names for little girl Spot as well. We kind of like Brynn Cecilia. But we're still tossing a few around.)