Lima Bean: Week Twenty Eight

How far along: Twenty Eight weeks as of Wednesday, April 23, 2014. 
Size of baby: Lima Bean is about 14.8 inches from head to heel and weighs about 2.25 pounds, the weight of a large eggplant.
Maternity Clothes: Yes, I am quickly becoming large and in charge.
Movement: Lima Bean is a mover and a shaker!
Sex of baby: It's a girl!
Sleep: Fine.
What I miss: A nice glass of white wine and not feeling tired all of the time!
Cravings: Bagels with veggie cream cheese.
Symptoms: Tiredness, generally harder to move around.
What I'm looking forward to: Being in the third trimester!  The pregnancy feels like it has flown by.

Extras: As I alluded to in the Week 27 post, Lima Bean is an active girl.  Her energy was confirmed right before I entered Week 28 when I ended up in the hospital on IV fluids because of a stomach flu.  It was a most unpleasant experience, to say the least.  I started feeling very nauseated around 6pm on a Monday.  I thought I was just having third trimester nausea, which I had heard can happen.  But by 8pm I was in tears I felt so horrible.  I ended up vomiting around that time.  I called my doctor's office and spoke with a doctor, who told me the bug was going around, and that if I wasn't better by the morning or if I started having contractions I should go to the hospital to get IV fluids.  After that time, I kept getting worse, to the point where I couldn't even keep sips of water down.  I was also having some contractions from dehydration.  Mark made the decision to head to the hospital at around 11:00.  He called my wonderful Aunt Lois to come stay with Henry.  She is a saint and rushed over.  I still felt horrible when we got to the hospital.  We waited in the maternity ward for what seemed like forever, until a nurse came to take me to the triage area for assessment.  It quickly was determined that I was severely dehydrated, so IV fluids started.  I ended up receiving fluids until about 4:30 in the morning.  It took awhile for the contractions to stop, but luckily they did stop after 2 bags of fluid.

I may have felt awful, but Lima Bean was a champ.  My nurse said that frequently when mothers come in with dehydration, babies are "flat" and showing signs of distress, too.  Not Lima Bean.  She was as active and raring to go as ever.  In fact, at one point the nurse could not even get the fetal heartrate monitor to work because Lima Bean loved the sugar-infused fluids I was receiving so much that she wouldn't stay in one place long enough to position the monitor to pick up her heartbeat.  That's our girl!