OB Appointment- 27w Shock

Yesterday, well once again it was quite the shocker! I am slowly learning that I have no control over things in my life, and for a type a personality, that is not something I deal with well.

We had an appointment at 1pm at our DR. First the nurse (we had one of the good nurses, the one who came to the hospital after the fall and the one who found no boy parts on Baby C) always checks my cervix, and we were all talking and not really paying too much attention until she says, "you were here last Wednesday and what was your cervix measuring?" I looked at the screen and realized the line she was measuring was NO WHERE near as long as it's been. I said, "it was 4.0, picture perfect." She then said that the longest she was getting, only 6 days later, was around 1.5 mm. I was shocked. 6 DAYS!!!!!! I didn't do much of anything this weekend. Most of my chores were sitting down or laying on the floor in the girl's room telling asking Tim to do things. Everyone at the office kept coming in the room, asking "girl, what have you been doing???"

The nurse then asked me if I have been given the steroid shot to mature the girl's lungs and I said no. Then I asked if I could get it here, and she said, "well normally they send you to the hospital, give you the shot and monitor the contractions for 24 hours." Again, I'm like say what, because of course my contractions are the worse in the evening and at night. So, we waited and waited and the doctor didn't even have to look at my cervix, he just looked at the photos, came in and said go straight to Labor and Delivery. Grrrrreeeaaat!

Also, I have been on the procardia every six hours around the clock, which isn't doing anything, and I did the 48 hours of the indocin, which I guess didn't hep at all. To me, looks like it all made it worse. The only other things I have been doing different this week, is that we propped the bed up (due to the heartburn and I started going to physical therapy 2x a week...all per doctors orders).

The nurse did check all the girl's stomachs, bladders, fluid levels, heart beats, umbilical-cord blood flow, and everything looked fine with them. Amen.

So, since I knew it was going to be a long evening and food would be scarce, we stopped by Burger King before heading next door to the hospital. (I hadn't had lunch yet and it was like 3:30pm...and with counting every calorie these days, I needed to catch up for the day)

We checked in, got settled (in the exact same room we had been in when the ambulance took me up to L&D before) and the monitors went on. Oh those lovely monitors! I tried to talk them out of putting the heart beat monitors on, since everything looked fine and perfect one hour before, but of course it's hospital procedures. So on they all went.

They kept the monitors on for a few hours, then took them off and just kept on the contraction monitor. The contractions continued to get closer and closer, as usual and I thought for sure they were not letting me leave. I also go the HUGE steroid shot in my butt, which HURT SOOOOOOOOOOO BAD! Phew, I thought I would be fine with going through IVF shots everyday, but phew, this shot took my breath away. The nurse did awesome giving it to me, it was just the amount of fluid and the aftermath. My whole leg went numb and I could feel it all the way down to my toes for almost an hour. Then she mentioned that it is a two part shot, so either the doctor says I can go home and will have to come back tomorrow for the other butt cheek to get punished or I stay overnight and get the other one tomorrow. That was the first time I heard that I could possibly go back home for the evening.

We waited an waited and as the contractions got closer and closer, I was pretty sure I wasn't going anywhere, but to my surprise, they let me go on very strict orders. Not allowed to move, take two procardia every 6 hours, watch the contractions like a hawk, be back at the doctors tomorrow at 4pm and back to the hospital at 5:30pm, with a bag packed to stay. At the doctors, they are going to check the cervix again, and basically go over all of our options at this point. Possible cerlage, possible hospital bed rest, but it looks (just from what everyone was saying) like it will be a terbutaline pump (hospital or not, I don't know) but we will find out today. I can't IMAGINE being on a terbutaline pump at home...if you remember what I posted in my other post when I fell and was at the hospital two weeks ago. That drug is hell. But of course my contractions were super close together all night long, so we'll see.

SO we will see what goes on today. Please pray for our family, that's all I ask. These girls cannot come anytime soon. I will not let it happen. Strap me to the bed. Do whatever to me. I don't care. I will do anything. We don't really know what to think at this point. We are very scared. Just believing God knows what's best and praying things will work out. This is just all a shock. Now I really know why the doctors said to have everything completely done by week 25, and yet we still have so much to do and so much to get. But all that seems like nothing now, I have way more important things on my mind.

Will keep everyone updated as quickly as we can.