Friday, February 1, 2013

MORE Contractions

I really have been resting lately... and haven't been out of the house since Wednesday when I went to Tar.get to fill my prescription for the terbutaline.  Last night I was having some crazy contractions.  Since it was late, I took the procardia instead of the terb because I didn't want to be awake all night.  After taking the procardia, the contractions continued and I still didn't get any sleep because they kept waking me up.  At about 2 am  I downloaded an app on my phone for a contraction calculator and had a few that were 7 minutes apart.  I can't take both meds at the same time, so I was kinda SOL at that point because I had to wait a few hours to take the terb (which I really didn't want to take because of the crazy side effects.)  At about 5:30 am I finally decided to take the terb and suffer the consequences  because the contractions were just not letting up.  I go in this afternoon for a growth ultrasound and a visit with the doc, so we will see what he says about all of this.  I know some people's docs won't stop labor past 34 weeks so if that was labor perhaps I shouldn't have stopped it?  I don't know.  I'm going to ask about the steroid shots for the boys' lungs too.  Not sure if its too late for that, but I really don't need two babies in the NICU and two babies that can't visit the NICU at home because they are too young.  Anyways, I'm 34 weeks and 2 days and I wish I had a crystal ball to predict what was going to happen!!!