Okay MoM?s I need some advice.. I went for my 26 week check and she said I am dilated to 1cm. I did not see my normal MFM who was on vacation, but one of her new collages she was not that worried about it. While I think my MFM would have been. She put me on part time work and part time bed rest and then we are going to reassess the situation next week. I cut down to 4 hours a day and will be at home just baking my babies the rest of the time. I have been having a few contractions and just a whole lot of back pain! I am concerned but she said we have a good chance of making it to at least 28 weeks.. Any thoughts or stories or advice?
Re: 26 weeks and dialating?
Yikes! They aren't concerned about dialation and PTL at 26 weeks? What was your cervical length? Have you had steroid shots? I would want a 2nd opinion immediately and be admitted for monitoring. I have 28 weekers and we got really lucky but it was really rough. Not to alarm you either but back pain can be an early sign of labor too.
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At 27 weeks I went in to ptl and dilated to 3cm. I was put on strict bed rest. Here I am at 34 weeks and still pregnant but if you are experiencing ptl you defiantly need to be on more than partial rest and get some steroid shots in.
I'd say if the back pain and contractions keep going much longer I would go into L&D. Just to make sure nothing is progressing.
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My cervix dilating to 1 cm and contracting got me put in the hospital on bedrest and mag at 32w.
Get checked out more thoroughly in OB triage.
We obviously don't have all the info, but that seems odd, and better safe than sorry. Especially at 26w.
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This. I can't believe they didn't put you on full bed rest and some kind of tocolytic medication.
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I would ask the doctor office if they can get a hold of your regular mfm while she is on vacation.
At my 27 wk appt my mfm found my cervix to have shortened to 1.8 and I was having contractions I couldn't feel and was 1cm. Admitted to hosp for ptl and then released to bed rest.