Jinx!

I wrote my last post about an hour before I left the office for the weekend.

We were getting our house exterminated for carpenter ants and I was getting home about 30 minutes earlier than my husband and the exterminator so I could make sure everything was all set to pack up and wrangle the cats into carriers - hubby knew I wasn't doing any of the actual work, just getting everything lined up for him to do it. Well, I get home and the exterminator was there early and already putting the chemicals on the outside of the house! He arrived early so he could start his vacation early - so I had to run in and wrangle the cats and do EVERYTHING before hubby and my mom arrived to help. It was alot of work and I was stupid for doing it...

We got out of the house with the cats on time and I drove hubby back to his office so he could leave his car at the house when he was in NC... so I've got the cats in the back of the car for the next 4 hours and 3 adults crammed into my corolla (oh ya, with a carseat taking up a seat...). I dropped off hubby and was already having lots of contractions. Thankfully I had an appointment for my 17P shot so my mom and I drove there. She was coming with me so that she could stay in the cats while the car was running with the AC on. I had 3 hours between taking him back to work and picking him up to the airport and OF COURSE I would spend that at the office... I got my shot and an exam.

I'm 1/2 - 1 cm. dilated and contracting. I'm on bedrest at home now and had to go to the hospital Thursday night for an ultrasound and meds to stop any contractions ( I had 3-4 dozen of very painful contractions over the course of 4 hours). I got there about 6 PM after picking up Arianna at daycare, dropping off the cats at the house and driving up to my parents (only to turn around and go back to the hospital) I was super worried 'this was it' when I got to the hospital
but thankfully my u/s was the same as earlier in the week and the contractions had stopped by the time I got on the monitors...

The the doctor came in and gave me some 'perspective'. She yelled at me for 10 minutes...

I guess I needed to hear it - as I vented to her about everything I have to do at home with my 2 year old she counter-acted with "You have a husband and family and friends to help, you have more important things to do right now and that is stay in bed... allow other people to do everything, you do nothing but lay in bed"

I stayed with my parents and they put Arianna in a diaper all weekend... it was really hard to 'allow that' considering how hard we've worked on potty training (successfully!) for more than a month.

This is going to be really hard so expect to read lots of venting here!