long week
This has been the longest week I've had in a long time. Tuesday morning I was feeling a bit crampy, but didn't think of it. By the afternoon, it was much more constant, so I called my OBs office to see if I should be concerned. So they bring me in, check me out, and send me straight to the hospital to be monitered. After 5 hours, an IV with 2 bags of fluid and 2 shots of Ter.butaline, they sent me home on 2 days of bedrest. I was to follow up with my OBs office on Friday, unless the contractions/cramps started up again. Thursday morning I was having a bit of cramping agian, but only every half hour or so. After lunch, I went to lay down and noticed that they were contractions, and they were about 8 minutes apart. I was supposed to call my OB if they were 10 minutes apart or less, so I called. And spoke with my doc, who sent me to the hospital again. Same thing, IV, 2 bags of fluid, and this time only one shot of Terb.utaline, they sent me home, and said I could go about my regular activity until I followed up with the OB. Yesterday, I saw the OB who sent me to the hospital on Tuesday, told her what happened and she asked if they had sent me home with any medication. I said no, she was surprised. So we talked a bit, and she asked how I'd been feeling since I left the hospital, so I told her that I had had some conractions, but not a lot, and not consistently. She was pleased, and said that it was very good news. That the contractions were very treatable with medication. And that I could continue to work as long as things weren't changing (I wasn't dilating), if I wasn't too uncomfortable. But the second I was uncomfortable at work, or feeling like it was all too much, that she'd pull me out of work until the after baby comes. But that if my cervix started to dilate even a tiny bit, that I wouldn't be able to make that choice anymore, and I'd be on bedrest. So I'm taking the meds, and they're helping somewhat, but I'm still having a few contracions here and there. To be expected. I'm just trying to take it easy for now, and not overdo it... in the hopes that I can work as long as possible, and not have to go on disability yet.