3 trips to labor and delivery....still pregnant!

This past weekend Brandon and I made several trips to Labor and Delivery. It started on Thursday night when I started having some contractions that just "felt different" then the normal annoying ones I had been having for a few weeks.

I called my doctor and she told me to come in to just be safe. (i was 34 weeks and 5 days). So in we went. Well, me and my mom, Brandon stayed home and tried to sleep in case it was really nothing since he had to work the next morning.

I got there, they hooked me up to the moniters, and my contractions were coming every 3 minutes. Which shocked me! Because I only felt them coming about every 5-10 minutes or so. She checked me and I was at 1 cm 50% effaced, and baby was at 0 station. (Basically very low for almost 35 weeks). So they gave me a shot of Tributiline to stop them, and after 2 hours it worked enough for me to go home. So home I went with Tributiline tablets and orders to "take it easy."

Friday my mom and sister came over to help me with Luke all day. I woke up to contractions coming about every 2 minutes. So I took a Tributiline tablet. I had some nasty side effects from that drug and called the on call doctor to talk about them. He prescribed me another type of drug (Procardia) to try instead because he said it sounded like the Tributiline wasn't really working and he didn't really think that the Procardia would really work either.

I took a nap that afternoon, only to wake up to the same kind of contractions I had earlier. Took a Procardia pill and had the same kind of side effects as I did with the Tributiline. After going to the bathroom, I also thought that maybe my bag of water had maybe tore just like with Luke. So I called the doctor and away we went again to good ol' St. Vincent's.

I got there, he checked me again, and I hadn't changed since the night before. And they figured out my water had not broken. All very good news. He told me that if the side effects of those drugs were making me feel awful, then to not worry about taking them because they weren't really working on stopping my contractions anyway. He said he didn't think I would make it to my next appointment this coming Thursday and he predicted he would see us again on Easter Sunday. He sent me home with an Ambien so I could finally get some sleep.

So, Saturday came and went. I had contractions on and off all day long, and they did get more intense. But when I got home and layed down to sleep, they stopped enough that I could actually fall asleep.

I woke up at 2:10 in the morning on Sunday morning to some pretty intense contractions. I wasn't able to get back to sleep this time. I took a shower to help with the back pains I had about 3am and then told Brandon I was getting concerned. So we called the doctor (again) and he said come in.

So, off we head to good ol' St. Vincent's again. I got there, and the nurse said my contractions were about every 4 minutes, but I didn't have much cervical change ( I was 1-2cm) so I wasn't considered in Preterm Labor, but having Preterm Contractions. So they sent me home with a prescription of Ambien so that I could get some rest at night to see if that would help me feel more rested. (which so far so good.....I am sleeping at night now!)

They want me to make it to at least 36 weeks (which is this coming Saturday) because a baby born at 35 weeks will automatically be admitted to the NICU. Which is definetly something we don't want to happen of course. I have an appointment on Thursday, as long as I don't feel like we need to go in again before then, to see how things are going.

As of today, I am doing good. Still having contractions and I have noticed they are definetly more intense towards the afternoon and evening. I'm just tired. Well, tired of being tired too. I'll keep you all posted on how things are going as the days go by with this little one. I'm going to try to update my pregnancy blog too, just so I have everything to do with this pregnancy over there too in one place. But probably not right now...or today. I'm just tired.

They haven't officially put me on bed rest, but hubby and I have decided that I probably should be. So I have just been sitting around all weekend and all day today. We have family and friends lined up to come over and help me take care of Luke during the day when hubby can't be here. Which has been nice, because then I'm not worrying about Luke getting deprived of anything. :)

I'll keep you all posted! Thanks for the prayers...we want baby boy to stay in their as long as possible.