S/O - when did you start NSTs?

itsallover · January 2009

If you had to have NSTs, when did you start them? Was there something that caused you to have to have them (like feeling contractions or shortening cervix)?

I had a singleton and never once had a NST so I have no idea what to expect. Is this standard for twins or only if you or your doc feel there is a problem?

copwife08 · January 2009

i have had no complications to date except scattered contrations. I started my NST's last week (32w) and have to go weekly to monitor for pre term labor.

itsallover · January 2009

Interesting. I will have to ask my doc (I like to be prepared). I moved at 19 weeks so I never discussed it with my first doc and my new one probably thinks I did. I am pretty much in the dark!

MelZull · January 2009

My peri and OB wanted me to start going twice weekly at 28 weeks. I was not having any contractions or problems, they just wanted me to be monitored to make sure things were going well. I also had no idea what to expect since everything I read about them gave me different information. For my NST's I went to the hospital I was going to deliver at and got all cozy in one of the beds. They straped two monitors on me to measure the heart rates of each babies and a third to measure movement and contractions. Once on the monitors it takes at least 20 minutes, but usually longer since the babies dont always stay in the same place for the monitors to track them.

lajolla09.30.06 · January 2009

I asked my OB and they said they weren't standard practice for their office... I never had one until I was admitted to the hospital at 33 weeks.

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