Sooooooo….. I have some developments to tell you about!

I had my regular 34w appointment yesterday morning. I was having some contractions but nothing out of the ordinary. She checked my cervix and it was closed, but it hurt when she checked it so it was possibly starting to ripen. Pretty normal appointment.

Last night was the worst night I have had. We went to bed at 1am and I woke up every single hour and finally stayed up at 11am. Sometimes it was from my back hurting, sometimes it was from a contraction. So my back was hurting after I decided to stay awake and I had some other odd “too much info” things happening also. I was having what seemed like a lot of contractions so around 12:30pm I decided to start keeping track of them. I was having what I thought to be contractions about every 10 minutes or so. I was planning on just lounging around all day and drinking plenty of water because I was kind of second guessing myself on the contractions. I was thinking that there were too many of them to really be contractions so maybe I was just thinking they were contractions and that it was just the babies having a good stretch. Well Preston was pretty concerned because I had some other pre-labor signs happening this morning so he called the doctor and she told me I needed to come into the office right away.

Soooo….. she checked my cervix again and this time it hurt even more than yesterday, and she said she could probably fit a finger tip in there but she wasn’t going to try because it wouldn’t be good to irritate it. Then I got hooked up to the monitors and sure enough, I was having contractions! They were pretty regularly spaced, I think about 10 minutes apart lasting around 1 minute each.

So she gave me some pills to take to stop the contractions. And I’m on strict bed rest now. My doctor will be gone for Memorial Day weekend so I’m “not allowed” to have them until she gets back. I’ll be sure to tell Emma and Ava that! So we have a sono on Tuesday, I’ll be 35 weeks then, and we’ll see how big they are and how they are presented and then she said we’ll talk about getting them out! I’m not sure what time frame we’ll be talking about but my cervix is clearly changing and I’ve started contracting so I assume there is only so long you can put something like that off! The doctor told me previously that around 35 weeks they usually have a very small chance of having to stay in the NICU past me being in the hospital, and she seems pretty confident that I could have them anytime after 35 weeks and be very well off. YAY!!! The end is in sight!