Pregnancy Update

Things have been a little crazy this week with being pregnant. (For reference I am 34 weeks pregnant this week).
On Thursday I started having a bunch of contractions, they eventually went away after resting in the evening so I just thought that I overdid it and needed to rest. I decided to stay home from church on Friday (Friday is the Sabbath in Bahrain) to make sure that nothing was amiss and the contractions were definitely less frequent with getting a bit of rest. Saturday I was worried that because of the contractions that the baby might come early and I wanted to pick up a few supplies to be more prepared. After doing this I tried to rest and take it easy the rest of the day. Come Sunday morning I was still having a bunch of contractions, many as close as 7 min apart. I called my doctor, worried that I was actually going to go into labor early. He had me come in and checked some things,  sent me up the maternity floor for a non stress test and my contractions looked like labor so he admitted me to the hospital right then and there. Turns out my cervix was starting to thin out and dilate slightly as well which meant the contractions were strong. They did an ultrasound to check the baby's size and are estimating him at about 4.6 lbs. I met with a neonatologist to discuss possible problems that the baby might have being born so early and to talk about possible transferring to a hospital with a better NICU. We ended up deciding to stay at the current hospital in hopes that we'd be able to stop the contractions and not need to deliver the baby so early with the backup plan that if delivery seemed imminent that they could take me to the other hospital in an ambulance. At the hospital, they had me on bed rest and IV fluids and as much water as I could stomach. Good friends from church and our housemaid stepped in to help take care of the girls until Tyler could get home from work. They kept me in the hospital overnight since my contractions were coming in stronger than they should've and about every 5 min. They gave me a couple shots to help with baby's lung development in case he was born soon. They also did a couple tests to check for infection in case that is the cause of all the contractions. The next morning (Monday), my contractions were almost non existent so I was released home on the strict order of lots of rest and hydration. We are still awaiting the results of the tests for infection, so hopefully we will have an answer or two as that comes back. Meanwhile, I'm on bedrest (with two toddlers, ha!) and just trying to take it easy and drinking tons of water. The doctor wants to make sure we at least keep the baby in for a few more days to give the medicine for lung development a chance to do it's job. I'm hoping for more like 2 weeks but we'll take whatever we can get at this point. I would love it if he would stay put until we scheduled his delivery at the end of June but that might not be very realistic at this point. Baby was monitored continuously throughout the entire process and seemed just fine, moving like expected and heart rate normal.
We've had lots of people offering help: taking the kids, bringing in meals, fasting and prayers, and we have the lady that we hired to watch the girls staying on to help care for them so that I can rest and baby can stay put as long as necessary. We've definitely felt loved and greatly appreciate the kindness of all our friends. We are just praying that baby can have a good, healthy start whenever he makes it! We appreciate all the acts of kindness, prayers and ask for continued prayers/ happy thoughts :)