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Well, it has been a week and a half since I got checked into the hospital and luckily I am now home! I went in on a Wednesday, and on Friday I had real hopes that I would get to go home and be with Jayce and Cameron. I was crushed when the nurses told me I wasn't going to be released that night and saying good bye to Jayce was really hard. I was all sorts of emotional. Cameron had spent Wednesday and Thursday night at the Nardone's (another HUGE blessing for us) but now he was going home with Jayce and I wanted to be with them at home too. Me being so upset made Jayce really sad too and before you know it we were both crying. It was a bitter sweet moment for us. As he walked by the nurses station on his way out he told the charge nurse to take good care of me and that I was having a hard time. I could tell he must have said something because she came into my room a few minutes later and sat down next to my bed and talked to me for a while. She was really kind. After that I co...

So, I started my NST's (Non-Stress Test's) this week since it was my 32 week mark. In a "high risk" pregnancy, they want you to go in twice a week every week starting at 32 weeks to have NST's. They strap fetal monitors to your belly so that they can monitor both of the babies' heart rates for a while and see check for contractions. I went in on Monday and was having some pretty regular contractions, but they gave me an ultra sound and decided that nothing significant was happening and let me go. We did bump up my next appointment by a day so that I could be checked a little sooner, just for good measure. Wednesday I went in and after 15 minutes or so my doctor came in and said she had seen all she needed to see and wanted me to go straight to the hospital so that they could put me on medicine to stop the contractions. She looked at me irritatedly and said, "Aren't you feeling these?!" I was kind of taken aback. I had felt tightening off an...