Well, after posting yesterday, I left for work. Thirty minutes after I got to work, I received a call from my OB's office concerned that my cervix had shortened and they wanted me to go to Labor & Delivery to get checked out. I thought I might be having some contractions, but they were painless so I wasn't quite sure. Once at the hospital, they hooked me up to 3 fetal heart monitors and a monitor to measure any contractions. Heartbeats were all good and sure enough, I was having some small contractions. All normal for Triplets, according to the doctor. She said it was just a matter of time until I ended up in L&D to be monitored. They started me on Procardium (sp?) to help control the contractions and gave me a steroid shot to help develop the babies' lungs. I had to stay the night to be monitored and will get another steroid shot at 5 PM today.
My OB is on call today, so we were able to talk to him this morning. Sounds like I will be here until at least Monday. When I go home, I will be home monitored 3 times/week and will basically be on bedrest until the babies are born. My goal is still 34-35 weeks but Dr. Hamm told me to take it week by week. Each week past week 24 is a milestone in a Triplet pregnancy.
Let me know if anyone has ideas for me to pass the time. I'm trying to talk Kevin into brining the Wii over so I can continue to master Guitar Hero. Keep the prayers coming!!
3 comments:
Patty, Good morning. So Glad to hear all is OK. Just take everything day by day. I really enjoy the blog..As for passing the time I pretty much stink at guitar hero.. But I am ok with scene it on the Xbox 360 we can set up a match when I am confined to my room..... You rest well... sit back and enjoy the ride...to motherhood.... miss you ....cb
Nana and Aunt Ellie continue to send you our prayers. (Sorry if this appears twice - thought I sent it, but it didn't appear). Maybe that means we're praying twice as hard!!!! ;-)
I think the last thing you have to worry about is a lack of prayers from your family and friends! You know we're all praying for you and those 3 little ones (and poor Kevin too!)
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