Well I've been having BH's off and on for about 2 weeks now. But last night they got much worse. I had a couple during the day, and then went in for my OB appt of all things, and told her about them. She said if they got worse or frequent w/in an hour's time to come in to the L&D. So I left and DH and I went on our first date in like 2 months, and go figure they start to become regular. Our son was at the babysitters already, so we went to L&D - thank God DS was taken care of w/out much work. I was there for hours, given two shots of something that finally worked, and after having them for 5 hours I went home.
Thank the Lord I was able to come home and sleep. I woke up at 8:00 - and immediately they started again. So I packed DS and I up and went back to L&D. They persisted for four hours yesterday. They were more intense and more often this morning. My back was KILLING me. I felt like a big ball of tension. They gave me the drugs I had on tuesday night, but they weren't working. So they tried another drug - Nifedipine, and that has seemed to do the trick - and I went home. I'm sappose to take these every 6 hours, and to take it easy. Honestly I don't have it in me to do much anyway - I'm totally drained still, even after being home for 20 hours. It freaks me out that this is happening at 28 wks. I'm sappose to see my OB on friday morning. I'm worried about figuring out what is doing to much, BEFORE the contractions are triggered again. This pg was going overall so smoothly, and now I'm really starting to stress - but trying so much not to. I read that irritable uterus was only 18.7% at risk for premature labor vs 11% of normal pregnancies. So that makes me feel better. They did do a fetal fibronectin test on me - which can detect if you are at risk to go into premature labor in the next 14 days. It came out negative, thank God, and it's 97% accurate so I feel really good about that.
Has anyone dealt with this and what did you find was your physical limits? I'm not on real bed rest, but told to take it slow. I'm bummed that I can't workout but anything for my little girl! Hopefully my dr. will let me take walks in a week or so after we know that things have died down.
Thank the Lord I was able to come home and sleep. I woke up at 8:00 - and immediately they started again. So I packed DS and I up and went back to L&D. They persisted for four hours yesterday. They were more intense and more often this morning. My back was KILLING me. I felt like a big ball of tension. They gave me the drugs I had on tuesday night, but they weren't working. So they tried another drug - Nifedipine, and that has seemed to do the trick - and I went home. I'm sappose to take these every 6 hours, and to take it easy. Honestly I don't have it in me to do much anyway - I'm totally drained still, even after being home for 20 hours. It freaks me out that this is happening at 28 wks. I'm sappose to see my OB on friday morning. I'm worried about figuring out what is doing to much, BEFORE the contractions are triggered again. This pg was going overall so smoothly, and now I'm really starting to stress - but trying so much not to. I read that irritable uterus was only 18.7% at risk for premature labor vs 11% of normal pregnancies. So that makes me feel better. They did do a fetal fibronectin test on me - which can detect if you are at risk to go into premature labor in the next 14 days. It came out negative, thank God, and it's 97% accurate so I feel really good about that.
Has anyone dealt with this and what did you find was your physical limits? I'm not on real bed rest, but told to take it slow. I'm bummed that I can't workout but anything for my little girl! Hopefully my dr. will let me take walks in a week or so after we know that things have died down.
