Hello,
I am updating you on what all has taken place in the last 24 hours.
Friday morning we went to our Dr.'s appt. with the specialist, Dr. Jones. Everything went great! The only real down fall was that my cervix has gone down from a 2.5 to a 1.9. This happened over 2 weeks. I was pretty shocked by this, since I really do not do anything. I stay sitting or laying most of the day.
We always meet with the Dr. before we leave and review everything from the u/s.
He did tell me that he was putting me on modify bed rest. This is pretty much what I was doing, but no running to the store and if I did to use a motorize cart.
We finished our meeting with him saying that he wanted to do a stress test to just see how the babies were doing and making sure I was not having any contractions.
I had been having braxton hick contractions, but they were not close together and did not bother me. My belly would just get tight and soon be back to normal.
They hooked me up and located baby a and baby b. They also put on a monitor that checked for contractions.
During the middle of the session Dr. Jones came in and looked at the print out and told us the babies are looking great and that he would be back in 20 mins....
When he came back he looked at us and said that I was contracting every 5 mins. I took a deep breath and said, but I can't feel them. He said, well you should be. Still in shock I said, ok, what do we do. Dr. Jones replied that we were about to head to the hospital and be admitted. He left the room to call Dr. Popwell and tell him what was going on and to call L&D to let them know we were on our way up.
As soon as he left I just looked up at Eric and bursted into tears. This is not what's suppose to happen!! At that time our sweet nurse came in and told use everything was going to be ok. She also reassured me that it was nothing that I did to cause this.
We were walked to into a meeting room and given our plan of action. Check into hospital, be given 2 bags of fluid at a very fast rate, Meds to stop the contractions and steroid shots to help the girls lungs mature, just in case the babies made their arrival. Once we were giving the plan I felt better already. I have read so much about preterm labor that I knew this could work!
We left the Dr. office and called our parents on the way to the hospital.
Once at the hospital we went up to the 3rd floor, got checked in and in a room within 5 mins.
We were asked a lot of questions and had to fill out forms for delivery. I did not understand why they were doing this? We were here for them to stop my labor, not deliver me.
Once in the room my meds were ordered and I was started on fluids. During the time it took to get the meds I was starting to be able to feel my contractions, nothing too bad, but I knew they were there.
Once I received my medicine to stop the contractions, they stoped pretty fast! Thank gosh!
Soon after I received my first steroid shot and 24 hours later have just received my second shot.
Whew! Things are looking better! I have not had any contractions since yesterday around 3:00.
If everything keeps going as well ,we are looking to be going home on Monday.
Once home I will be on complete bed rest. I will only be able to get up to shower and use the bathroom. I can lay in the bed or on the couch. When Dr. Jones was telling me this, he said, you do not seem upset? Most of my patients cry when I tell them us. My reply was, As long and my babies are ok I will do whatever it takes, with a smile on my face! He just smiled.
So, this is where we are as of now. I'll try to update as much as possible.
Please keep us all in your prayers! We are 30 weeks on tomorrow.
Bed rest is going good. I am normally either laying in the bed or on the couch. I can get up and move about within the house, since I'm on modify rest, but spend most of my time laying.
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