I hope I never have to go back there...to L&D that is

robinsokj · February 2010

So, for those of you who dont know, I was having painful contractions every 5 minutes starting around 4:30 yesterday afternoon so I called after I had chugged a bunch of water and laid down for for an hour.

We head to the hospital, make it to the parking lot, when the doc tells us to go to a different hospital across town thats NICU is better for babies this early. We had to keep her on the phone and do mapquest b/c we didnt know how to get there from where we were.

I think I met every nurse in L&D for some reason or another. The doc checks the cervix and everyone in the room cheered when she said closed. One of the nurses inserted a mighty painful catheter for urinalysis, which ended up negative. I don tknow what she hit, but it still kinda hurts to pee.

They pumped me full of a ton of fluid and the contractions just kept coming so they gave me my first shot of terbutaline (sp?), afterwhich the contractions immediately responded.

They ended up giving me 2 shots of the terb (which burns like hell) and I had some sort of reaction and almost passed out. The doc came back in an hour after the terb, rechecked me, still closed, and I was discharged. I am having BH again, but nothing like last night.

Now I have to call my regular doc and see what we do next.

Lambie. · February 2010

I am glad the boys stayed put. Terbutaline can (and usually does) make your heart race, probably causing your reaction.

danlexi04 · February 2010

I'm glad to hear that everything ended up well!! Terb BLOWS! Starting around 26 weeks I was regularly givin injections of it. Did they mention anything about bed rest?

hippotree · February 2010

Sorry it was such an awful night, but I am so glad to hear that the boys stayed put! Get some rest today!

jCamsquared · February 2010

Oh I am so glad to hear they are still inside!

robinsokj · February 2010

danlexi04:
I'm glad to hear that everything ended up well!! Terb BLOWS! Starting around 26 weeks I was regularly givin injections of it. Did they mention anything about bed rest?

The L&D doc said I should be on modified bedrest, but her definition was more like strict bedrest. I'm waiting until I wake up a bit more then calling my doc to see what she says.

greenclown · February 2010

I'm sorry you had such a bad night, but I'm glad the boys have stayed put.

The terbutaline burns like a biitch. When they gave it to me, they said it was going to "burn a little bit." Liars. It burned so much I wanted to rip my IV out.

buckin · February 2010

I'm very sorry you had to go through that but YAY for boys staying put. Take it easy today!

stuzyq14 · February 2010

yay for still inside baby boys!!! Rest up and try to take it easy - I hope the doc has a good plan for you.

caffinated_tulip · February 2010

I'm sorry that sucked so bad! But I'm really really glad those little boys are staying put for a while

kate930 · February 2010

I wasn't around when you posted yesterday, but I'm sorry you has to go through that! I'm so glad they are staying put for a while longer!

Amorlinda · February 2010

So sorry you had a scare yesterday. I'm glad the boys stayed put.

Mee83shell · February 2010

robinsokj:
So, for those of you who dont know, I was having painful contractions every 5 minutes starting around 4:30 yesterday afternoon so I called after I had chugged a bunch of water and laid down for for an hour.
We head to the hospital, make it to the parking lot, when the doc tells us to go to a different hospital across town thats NICU is better for babies this early. We had to keep her on the phone and do mapquest b/c we didnt know how to get there from where we were.
I think I met every nurse in L&D for some reason or another. The doc checks the cervix and everyone in the room cheered when she said closed. One of the nurses inserted a mighty painful catheter for urinalysis, which ended up negative. I don tknow what she hit, but it still kinda hurts to pee.
They pumped me full of a ton of fluid and the contractions just kept coming so they gave me my first shot of terbutaline (sp?), afterwhich the contractions immediately responded.
They ended up giving me 2 shots of the terb (which burns like hell) and I had some sort of reaction and almost passed out. The doc came back in an hour after the terb, rechecked me, still closed, and I was discharged. I am having BH again, but nothing like last night.
Now I have to call my regular doc and see what we do next.

*The burning will hurt for a bit b/c the tube goes up your pee tube and it scrapes things a little.

*And Terb sucks....and the passing out thing, unfortunately, totally normal from subcutaneous injection.

mmk3742 · February 2010

I am so glad that the boys stayed put. I hope you can keeping them cooking for many more weeks.

horizon1322 · February 2010

I'm so sorry you had to go through all of that, but I'm thrilled the boys are staying put! Maybe they're driving you crazy now so that they'll be little angels when they're outside babies?

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