I'm on a schedule to get medications every 6 hours, at 6 and 12. This morning when I woke up, something just felt wrong. I told the nurse, and she said to let her know if it got worse. It took a while, but I figured out that I was having contractions, and they were getting a lot stronger.
They put me on the monitor at 7, and soon after the doctor came in and decided they would try increasing the Nifedipine I've been taking to help stop any contractions. An hour later, there was no change. I was having contractions about every 10 minutes, but the baby looked okay on the monitor. Since the medication increase didn't help, they came in and gave me a shot of Terbutaline. I hate terbutaline. It increases your heart rate and I got so incredibly antsy, but I couldn't move with the monitor on. Good news is that it stopped the contractions and things have been quiet for a few hours now.
Doc said that even though 29 weeks is a great place to be, they're still going to do everything they can to keep me from having this baby, and they'll put me back on the magnesium if they have to. But things are calmed down now, so we're not going to worry too much right now. Okay, I'm not going to worry too much. I'm sure Jon will worry enough for all of us!
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Sorry for the stress, Jenn. You sound like you're in really good hands.
God bless you.
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