Part 1 of My Story

Saturday:

I went on a 2 mile run with the husband.

Sunday:

I went on a 5-mile bike ride in the rain. By the end of the bike ride my back was hurting. I began to have mucus discharge when I went to the bathroom.

Monday:

My ‘back spasms’ were far and few between. Monday night was stressful event with our shepherd.

Tuesday:

I was slow in moving. I forced myself to eat a PB&J sandwich. Went to work at the spa.  By the end of my shift I could barely bend over and pick things up. I also was going to the bathroom I swear every 15 min. I swear the trek to my car took a good 45 min. My ‘back spasms’ were pretty intense. Once I arrived home I got an ice pack from my freezer and went upstairs to bed.

Tuesday Night:

I was only asleep for about 30 min after getting home and I was in full pain. I ended up going to another room to try to sleep because I was keeping up Mr B. 

Again, I was going to the bathroom every time I got up. My mucus discharge was pretty heavy and my ‘back spasms’ were so intense my mother says she could hear me groan.

Midnight Tuesday:

I’m frantically searching to see what hospital our insurance was accepted. I was to the end of my whit with these ‘back spasms’. I woke up Mr. B to ask him if he would be willing to take me to the emergency room because I couldn’t handle this pain anymore.

He asked if I could hold off till the morning to get seen by my doctor, but if I needed him he would take me.

Wednesday at Dawn:

I made it through the night with some more groans and have Mr. B inform that he could not feel my back spasms when I had him feel my back. At this point I felt like I was going crazy. Thinking to myself “How can he not feel this?” I call my doctor office to find out that they weren’t open till noon. I had to be at work at 10 that morning. I decided the best thing was to call in and go to an Urgent Care to see what was wrong with my back. By 8:30 I’m out the door slowly dealing with the ‘back spasms’ as they came closer. I finally make it to Urgent Care by 9:15.

Arrival to Urgent Care:

I don’t really remember the drive to the next town over, but I made it. The doctor sees me and she determines that I just over did the bike on Sunday and would need to take some painkillers for my back. She too couldn’t feel the spasms. She’s about to discharge me, but I ask her to check me since I had the excessive amount of discharge.

Once she gets the spectrum inserted she pushes really hard on my stomach and the runs out of the room to get another tool. Once she came back in the nurse pops her head in to say that the test came back positive. She feels my stomach a little more and then takes her gloves off and informs me that I am totally effaced and fully dilated. She informs me that my ‘back spasms’ were labor contractions. She lets me know that my next stop would be the emergency room.

I quickly call my mom who worked down the street from Urgent Care and let her know I needed her to take me to the ER. I then called my husband crying and apologizing that I was pregnant and letting him know I was in labor.

Next came the firefighters and ambulance. Somewhere between there my mom arrived. The only part I remember is the EMT asking me how I couldn’t feel my baby move?