On Friday I had my weekly biophysical appointment. The babies looked great. Still both head down, great heartbeats and passed all the tests that they do on the babies.
Then last night I woke up about midnight with extreme pelvic pain. So after the rest of the evening of trying to find comfortable positions and a 3am bath which helped, I called the doc this morning. And after hearing my symptoms she required me to come in and be seen. After seeing my doctor she decided to do 2 things: a test called Fetal Fibronectin which can help tell them if I am in preterm labor whether I would deliver in the next week, but it is only 20% accurate. (which i thought was quite low, so taking that one with a grain of salt, apparently there are not a lot of studies with the test and multiples pregnanies). And she decided to check if there was any movement with my cervix. After checking me, it happenes that I am already 2cm dilated and 50% effaced. So I was sent to labor & delivery for monitoring to be sure I wasn't havng contractions that I couldn't feel that we're progressing me. I was hooked up to heart monitors for each baby, blood pressure cuff, and a contraction monitor for abut 2.5 hours. After that and having a few contractions - nothing painful, she checked my cervix again but there had been no change. And the above test result was negative - again taking with a grain of salt. So hopefully that means that the small contractions I was feeling are not true labor and not progressing anything and itnis the babies pushing down causing the dialation. I was released and allowed to go home, but ordered to rest a lot more and take in more fluids and to come back in if things get worse. Otherwise stick with my regularly scheduled appt on Friday. I am 33 week's tomorrow, so really want to keep them cooking for at least 2-3 weeks if I can. But a this point, just going day by day. I am still pretty uncomfortable, so have been laying low all afternoon and have Judy (Mike's mom) helping out with Cohen periodically throughout the week so I can really rest and not do much.
Then last night I woke up about midnight with extreme pelvic pain. So after the rest of the evening of trying to find comfortable positions and a 3am bath which helped, I called the doc this morning. And after hearing my symptoms she required me to come in and be seen. After seeing my doctor she decided to do 2 things: a test called Fetal Fibronectin which can help tell them if I am in preterm labor whether I would deliver in the next week, but it is only 20% accurate. (which i thought was quite low, so taking that one with a grain of salt, apparently there are not a lot of studies with the test and multiples pregnanies). And she decided to check if there was any movement with my cervix. After checking me, it happenes that I am already 2cm dilated and 50% effaced. So I was sent to labor & delivery for monitoring to be sure I wasn't havng contractions that I couldn't feel that we're progressing me. I was hooked up to heart monitors for each baby, blood pressure cuff, and a contraction monitor for abut 2.5 hours. After that and having a few contractions - nothing painful, she checked my cervix again but there had been no change. And the above test result was negative - again taking with a grain of salt. So hopefully that means that the small contractions I was feeling are not true labor and not progressing anything and itnis the babies pushing down causing the dialation. I was released and allowed to go home, but ordered to rest a lot more and take in more fluids and to come back in if things get worse. Otherwise stick with my regularly scheduled appt on Friday. I am 33 week's tomorrow, so really want to keep them cooking for at least 2-3 weeks if I can. But a this point, just going day by day. I am still pretty uncomfortable, so have been laying low all afternoon and have Judy (Mike's mom) helping out with Cohen periodically throughout the week so I can really rest and not do much.
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