Our First Scare

Tuesday night and Wednesday morning I was having a lot of contractions even on the Nifedipine. I would take it and within an hour I was already having contractions. By Wednesday morning I was having them every three to five minutes and I did everything they told me to do-lay on my left side for an hour and drink lots of water, but they kept coming regularly. I called Labor & Delivery and they said even if I was having 3 or more an hour on the medication I definately needed to come in. I got hooked up to the contraction monitor and was having constant contractions. They did some tests and found that I had an infection that could be causing the contractions so gave me an antibiotic for that. They also did a Fetal Fibronectin that came back negative which predicts pretty accurately that I won't go into labor in the next two weeks. They increased my Nifedipine to every 4 hours, the most you can take, so hopefully we'll have an uneventful next few weeks. Because the fetal fibronectin came back negative, they sent me home. I realized how much better it is to be home than in the hospital. It's no easy task trying to hold completely still for hours with three heart beat monitors and a contraction monitor. If I moved at all we'd lose at least one baby's heart beat. So I'm now resting "comfortably" at home.