I spent another day in labor and delivery today- still contracting every couple of minutes. The terb shots I got Tuesday night worked only very temporary. I was hoping that when I called the office, they would just prescribe me some kind of pill to take every few hours and that would be it but they wanted me to go back up to Labor and Delivery to be hooked up and checked out.

Dr. Platt (the high risk OB) was on for Dr. Lupton. She did a vaginal ultrasound to confirm that my placenta was in fact covering my cervix (she said that these are often diagnosed, but many times are not correct b/c they are diagnosed with an abdominal ultrasound). Unfortunately, this was not the case, I am still a complete previa. She said that most people would have started bleeding by now with all the activity from my uterus, but since by cervix is "long" it has probably helped in preventing it. I have also not yet started to dilate. Hooray!

Fortunately she said that she hates terbutaline and went ahead and tried procardia on me. She also gave me a shot of celestone (a steroid to help with fetal lung maturity). I continued to contract and received another dose of the procardia an hour after the initial dose. She went ahead and released me after that and said that she thinks it had slowed things down and I was just having some uterine irritablity at that point. She sent me home with a prescription for Procardia to take every 4 hours around the clock and wants me to go back in to the office for a second dose of celestone tomorrow at 1 pm. She also wrote a script for me to not return to work until after delivery. I am not on "bedrest", but "bedrest as much as possible". I am going to try my hardest to obey!!

My next Dr. appt is scheduled for Monday still. I will update then...
Thanks Amy for heading up to the hospital with me!!! I really appreciate everyone and all the help I have been given! I love you guys!