Hi everyone,
So, I have a theory that there's some kind of suspicious labor inducing product in the burger meat at the Freight House restaurant in Stillwater, MN. My theory is backed up by 2 hospital-bound incidences that happened within 2 hours of eating a cheeseburger at the said restaurant. Now, thankfully both incidences did not result in me going into full on labor, and baby is doing great (I had my 27 week check-up this morning - baby Sonnek is look'n good!)...but still...it's just a little bit too weird to be just a coincidence...
Cheeseburger Incident #1 - Slightly embarrassing story but oh well...
A few months back, Aaron's parents were up from Fairmont for a visit, so we decided to show them around Stillwater, since we'd be moving into our new house there soon. So, we walked around for a little bit (obviously this is in between bed rest phases), and decided to get some food at the Freight House, which is a restaurant right on the St. Croix river, lovely views. Food? eh, not the greatest. So, we all order - I got a cheeseburger and fries. Everyone else ordered various sandwiches, salads, etc. When we finished, I wasn't feeling that great so I asked my mom if we could just go back to her house so I could lay down (she lives very close) and then Aaron and his parents could walk around town a little more. We agreed that was a good plan and mom and I drove back to her house. I lay down on her couch and a few minutes later I feel this splash of wetness, you know where, and of course my first instinct is "oh my gosh, did I just pee my pants?", so, I go upstairs to the bathroom, still thinking that I peed my pants (which I've read isn't SO uncommon in pregnant women), proceed to find my mom's blow dryer and dry out my pants. Meanwhile, my mom is downstairs wondering what the heck is going on as she can hear the blow dryer on full blast and knows I didn't take a shower or anything. So, I finally dry out my pants but something just still doesn't feel right, so I call the on-call doctor and she said to immediately get in the car and drive down to United hospital, that my water just broke. Now, this is a very serious issue and it could have been much worse, but in the end it turned out I had a premature rupture of membranes (known as pPROM in the medical world) and had "sprung a leak in the amniotic sac" - it sealed over a day later, thank God.
Cheeseburger Incident #2
Last Tuesday night our friends Becca and Dave drove out to Stillwater to check out our new house and grab some dinner in Stillwater. We had planned on going to the pirate bar (Smalley's Caribbean BBQ) but the electricity was out, so instead we headed next door, to the Freight House. Thinking in the back of my head about the last time I was there brought a little chill to my spine, but that was months ago, and everything was going so well now! So, anyways we sit down at a booth and order our drinks and food, I order a cheeseburger and fries (same as last time). We chat for a while, everyone eats their food, and around 9pm we head home. Great night with great friends so far! Aaron and I get ready for bed about an hour later and at 10:30pm I start feeling some contractions. I had felt a few before, maybe once or twice a week, but nothing like this. So, I lay back down thinking they would go away, but they kept coming every 15 minutes or so, about 3-4 an hour. I tried to get some sleep that night but it was pretty difficult, so at 5 in the morning I called the on-call doctor and told him what was going on and he instructed me to drive down to United hospital once again, just in case. They weren't super worried, since apparently at 26 weeks gestation up to 6 contractions an hour is in the safe zone (doesn't that seem like a lot?), but anyways, I was steadily contracting every 15 minutes for about 10 hours, so they gave me a shot to stop the contractions, which helped, and then I was sent home after a few hours of fetal monitoring. Baby was looking great and healthy, which is the most important thing :)
I couldn't help but wonder, was it the meat?
