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Early labor interventions

kaitlynmcclanahankaitlynmcclanahan member
in August 2015 Moms
Hi ladies,

FTM 34 wks 5 days and kind of learning as I go thru this whole pregnancy thing. Went to L&D on Thursday with some major pains and loss of fluid. Good news was my water hadn't broken and it was just beautiful baby boy causing bladder leakage. Bad news was that I was contracting every 1-3 mins. I was given a shot of a drug called Breathine to stop them. Which did work. But according to the nurse, if it hadn't or doesn't in future cases they will give me more doses and if those don't work move on to stronger meds. I guess my question is this medicine (basically epinephrine) can cause your heart to race and spikes in blood sugar both in mommy and baby according to the FDA. Just looking for some input from other moms who've birthed already about and medical intervention you had to prevent early labor and if you seen any definite pros or cons from it or if you ever refused more doses after so long which is what I'm debating. Id rather not be given more than like two doses of it. I know little man needs to stay in there and cook a bit more but scares me to be loaded up with too many doses of drugs.
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Re: Early labor interventions

  • EmJ628EmJ628 member
    Also a FTM so I can't give you personal experience but just wanted to offer some reassurance. I am sure you are going to follow up with your doctor this week, and make sure you talk about your concerns with the medication with them. Remember there are side effects to every medicine, but the doctors have determined the benefit of the medication outweighs the possible side effects for you and baby. And just because there are possible side effects doesn't mean they will happen to you! They want to keep baby in there as long as possible because that's the best place for him right now. It's great to be educated but try not to scare yourself with Dr Google :)
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  • emmacake08emmacake08 member
    I had it with a version of this with a preterm scare with twins and my provider would only do one shot while they told me other providers would do up to three. I think that there might be some research that more doses ontop of the first only isn't significantly more effective. In this case and this use, it sounds like the right call compared to cost/benefit scenarios. I personally don't think the side effects are worse than delivering preterm but that's me.
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  • kaitlynmcclanahankaitlynmcclanahan member
    Thank you ladies! I did have a follow up today and thank goodness still no dilation even though I have still been contracting throughout the day but not consistently. Ultrasound on Wednesday to check my fluids and hoping baby boy stays in there these next 5 weeks :) really looking forward to a healthy full term baby.
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