Spent the night in L&D
So here's the story. About 4 AM Sunday (6DEC09) I started getting all crampy and stuff. My back was killing me and I was nauseous and vomiting on and off all day. I was having contractions, but nothing I figured I needed to worry about. My Braxton Hicks have been really really frequent so I just figured it was more of the same.
Well yesterday my mom called me all worried of course. She was yelling at me to call the doctor yada yada yada. Me, being the stubborn person I am, said I will, later. Well mom wasn't taking no for an answer and drove 45 minutes to my house from hers. I had surprised her and already called and was getting ready to go when she got here. By this point the contractions were about 10-11 minutes apart and getting more intense. Doc said c'mon in. So I went and got there around 7ish last night. They took me into a room and had me pee in a cup and immediately hooked me up to the heartbeat monitor and the contraction monitor.
I was really glad to find out that the midwife in the practice was also on call all night because I had never met the doc going off duty or the one coming on. They wound up giving me a Terbutaline Sulfate injection which really didn't do much except make me jittery and sick to my stomach. Contractions were getting closer together, about 3-4 at this point. My cervix has thinned out, but hasn't started dilating yet. After a lot of talking and decision making on my part, we opted to give me magnesium sulfate through my IV because the terbutaline made me throw up. So they kept me on a drip of that all night hoping to stop my contractions completely. This morning they gave me two different IV antibiotics and an oral terbutaline which thankfully didn't make me sick at all.
The contractions never fully stopped, but they are definitely now only coming a couple times an hour. They gave me a script to take the terbutaline 4X a day. If my contractions get worse again I am to go right back, otherwise I keep my appointment on Friday and they are going to start seeing me at least once a week again. Just when we stopped my weekly visits because we thought I would be okay with Bi-weekly for the next month!!!
I will be 32 weeks tomorrow and they are trying to buy time to at least 35. They did say that if I actually start to dilate with the contractions they won't try to stop them again. But as long as I am not dilating they will stop them as long as they can.
On the plus side she is no longer breech!! She has moved into position. So I very highly doubt I am going to make it to February, but stranger things have happened!!!
Oh and I hate this Terb stuff. It makes my heart feels like it is going to ump out of my chest and makes me shake like I am standing in a walk-in freezer naked. Blah on having to take it every six hours....
Good luck and keep us posted.
