Admitted to Hospital... the story and what we know

Alright folks here is the scoop. I first want to thank everyone who has stopped and prayed for us. I had a bit of a breakdown on Tuesday night from being scared and not knowing what was happening. but knowing that all of you were out there has helped out soooo much!

Tuesday Morning
I didn't have to go into work until 8am, and after i showered i felt weird/funny as i was getting socks i just like i was having period cramps. then i had a slight brownish/blood discharge. so my plan was to monitor it during the day since the clinic was closed and i was just going in to do paperwork anyway. I just continued to feel funny at work, baby girl was kicking and squirming away so i really wasn't too concerned. i also knew i had an appointment with my OB at 310 anyway so as long as things stayed the same i would just go to that as usual. So i finished up my paperwork, went home and ate lunch and waited until my dr appointment. I went in as normal and told my dr that i was feeling funny and had the slight cramps. well that one me a internal exam. I was 1 cm dilated and my water bag was right there. so she did a swab test and then said as it was processing that she was going to put me on the non stress test and monitor the baby and any contractions. well little did i know that i was having pretty consistent contractions. the swab test was invalid, she figured because of too much mucus. so this one me a trip to labor and delivery for the night to watch things. So i called grant and told him that i would be for sure spending the night.(admitted at 530pm) as soon as they hooked me up to the good hospital monitors they said that my contractions were 2 minutes apart, and very consistent. this made me nervous. they started some drugs to stop contractions that at first i took 20mg every 20 minutes for the first hour then 20mg every 4 hours. they also gave me a shot to stop contractions, and also steroid shot to boost baby girls lungs since she was still early. well finally at about 9ish i want to say they were finally spread out more and less consistent. so we knew that i would just continue to be monitored through the night and hope that nothing happens. well grant and i couldn't sleep my back was killing me from not being able to move and my legs were crampy, so the sleep just did come.
Wednesday Morning
then comes 1am!! my nurse was just in seeing how i was doing, and giving me some antibiotics to fight off strep b if i would have it ( i was going to get the test done at my next dr) so as a pro caution they have me on iv antibiotics just in case. well she goes on here way i was just getting settled and rolled onto my back.... then i felt it warm water. i told grant to get the nurse "either i peed myself or my water just broke!" so the nurse comes in and did a simple test that was positive for amniotic fluid. the resident then came in and did a more advanced test to be sure, and of course positive. so now things were more scary. i always thought 24 hours after your water breaks you have to deliver...this didn't sit well, i wasn't ready not yet. so they kept the monitors on me all night and kept giving me the stop contractions pills since i was still having contractions also. so yeah i think i may have slept 2 hours last night. i was asking the RN's about the 24 hour rule, and they said that if everything was fine you could go longer with antibiotics and close monitoring of the baby. so that kinda soothed me, but was it safer to have her in me and risk infection, or deliver?
so my wonderful sister had plans all made out so that she could be here at the hospital with us today in case i would go into labor, or if they were going to allow labor to continue. i was very grateful when she said she was coming, she has a way of keeping me calm and level headed and on the right page also she has had 4 kids and although they were never this early, she knows what is going on in the labor world :)
so my dr came in at 1030am to let us know the plan. she was going to continue the stopping contractions pills until i would have 2 doses of the steroids to pump up baby girls lungs and they can only be given once every 24 hours. and that was wednesday at 530ish. so her plan was to keep up with the stopping pills, and then as long as everything stayed good... baby girl would be induced friday morning!

So that is the plan folks. i am sitting here just chilling in the hospital feeling great. Grant is getting a little cabin fever, and keeps going home to check on things. baby girl is doing wonderful, her heartbeat has never gone down, or up during the whole process, and she has been moving like crazy with all the action going on around her. so i will keep you all updated if anything changes, but the way it looks now....Aryssa Mae Kolbe should be arriving on Friday :)