Keira Early Appearance

Well according to my doctor my ticker is wrong. I am supposed to be due on October 24 because baby was measuring small. As some of you may know I was on bedrest because my cervix was 1 cm dilated. On Tuesday, August 11 I was doing my fetal counts and noticed the baby wasn't moving as much around 6 pm. I didn't pay much attention to it as I figured she was probably asleep. I went to be and around 12 am I realized that I still didn't feel her kick. So I panicked and cried because I didn't pay more attention to it and 6 hours had already passed! So I pulled out my Motherhood doppler (cheap) and tried to hear something (anything) for about 20 minutes. Finally I heard her heartbeat and felt her kick. Just one measly kick. I told DH and he said that she was probably just sleeping. I stayed up most of the night and probably slept 2 hours because she still wasn't kicking as hard as she usually does. I had an appointment at 2:15 pm that day so I figured I would just go in earlier. When DH's alarm went off for him to go to work I told him that I wanted to go to the ER. I told him that I was really worried. I then started feeling cramps in my lower back. I called the on-call doctor to tell him about her lack of movement and added the back pain as incentive so he could take it more seriously. He told me to go to L&D. I was surprised. I thought he would at least tell me to wait until 8:00 am to see the doctor. So we got ready and got to L&D by 9:30 am since that hospital was farther than the local hospital. My cramps had subsided so we didn't think anything of it. I went to triage and they were listening to baby's heartbeat. I was relieved to hear that it was strong. Then my back cramp started up again. While the nurse was gone DH counted (w/o telling me) and after 20 minutes he said "Babe, I think you're having contractions, they're 5 min. apart" Of course I didn't believe him because they just felt like strong period cramps. The nurse came in and I joked about what he said. She got serious and said actually he's wrong, you're contractions are 2 1/2 minutes apart!!! She called in the doctor and he came and checked me. He then told me that I was 4 cm dilated!!! I was then admitted and brought to the L&D room. The doctor came back and said that the baby is breeched (which I already knew) and he doesn't see me lasting more than 3 days before giving birth. So I started crying. At this point I was 29 weeks and 4 days. They gave me magnesium to stop the contractions. I then noticed around 6 pm that evening that I still wasn't feeling baby move as she used to even though her heartbeat was strong. When the doctor came in he did an ultrasound on me because of the movement concerns. He agreed that she wasn't moving as she should and even used some kind of zapper buzzer thing to zap my tummy. It was safe but it is used to annoy the baby. He then counted her kicks for 10 minutes and it satisfied his count. I went back to L&D and around 2:30 am I told the nurse that I started feeling contractions again and I was also feeling a burning pressure in my vagina. She called my doctor and then came in and said that I would be having a c-section that night!!! She said that the doctor who did my ultrasound said if I complained about anything else to order the c-section. I started crying because I wasn't sure if I was making up the pain I was feeling or what! I didn't want the baby to come out yet! DH was happy and ready though. DH and the doctor came in and convinced me that this was best. They even had a NICU doctor come in to assure me that she's at the age of a higher survival rate. So they brought me to the OR, put the epidural in (which hurt like hell! cuz I had no contractions to focus on at that point), and cut me open. Since I had gone almost 48 hours with no sleep I started falling asleep! DH had to keep squeezing my hand to wake me! Finally he says "she's out! she's light and has dark hair!" lol. I fall asleep again and is woken by the doctor/nurse (not sure) holding her next to my head. I looked at her and swore I was looking at a doll! Then they took her to the NICU. I went to the recovery room and slept. I didn't get to see her until the next day because I had to make sure the magnesium was out my system and they had to removed the catheter that they had put in me. Anyway, Keira is doing fine. Docs say she is big for a 29 weeker. She weighed in at 2 lbs 13 oz and 15 inches. She had some jaundice and they had her under the blue light. They also said she had an infection. Strep B which is a form of meningitis so they are saying that her coming out early was best because they caught this infection. They told me that she should be coming out in 4-6 weeks. As of today they removed her oxygen because she can breath on her own. She is also feisty! She pulls on the cords and doesn't like when people touch her lol. She only likes to be held and cuddled.