an eventful night was had!

Well, last night was our first trip to the hospital with this pregnancy. We got home around 2:00am. A couple days ago I had a lot of things going on like a stabbing sensation in my area and I do believe that I lost my mucus plug. Can I say that without anyone feeling gross? I guess I don't feel uncomfortable to talk about it anymore because I have talked about all this stuff so much now with Caleb's pregnancy and now this one. The talk feels like normal conversation. Anyways, so I was having a lot of minor contractions and just kinda went on about my busyness. Well, last night at youth, I calmly pulled Josh aside a told him that I thought when youth was over that I needed to go get checked out at the hospital. I just have to mention the word hospital and he starts going nuts. So we get there and get checked in and my nurse came in. Which by the way, I hope that she is on duty the day or night that I actually have her. She was the nicest and sweetest nurse. She hooked me up to the monitors and started monitoring my contractions and the baby's heart beat. Then she decided that she would check me. We found out that I am already dialated at a one, my cervix was still a little long but that I was 25% efaced. I have been labeled a candidate for pre-term labor. By the end of the night after monitoring for awhile she was going to discharge me and decided that she would check me once more before I left to make sure that I hadn't done anymore. We found out that my cervix was shorter and and that I was now 50% efaced. So she called the doctor to check and make sure I was still able to go home and they said yes but that I needed to come in for an appointment the next morning. I went in this morning and my doctor said that I was to be on "bed rest", but not really that I had to lay in bed, I just can't pick anything up or do any activities. What a wonderful time to get that said to me when we are trying to move into this new house! My doctor also said that if I progressed anymore this week than they would give me some medicine to make the contractions stop, but if I make it past this week than they would not stop the labor. She said she would like to see me make it to full-term which is considered 37 weeks that way I wouldn't have to worry about a premature baby but that if I did have her after the 34 week that she should be okay. Crazy! Please just pray for the situation. Pray that if I do have her early that she will be fine and just tinsy but also pray that I can make it a little longer than a couple of weeks. I know this is all in God's hands and He will protect her and myself but I would be able to just rest easier knowing that everything will be okay. I have confidence in my doctor but most importantly I have faith that God is in control. I know this little princess will be perfect in every way.