Appointment Update

Home from the MFM.  Best part of that sentence?  Home!

So, my cervix went from 25-30 mm on Wednesday to 20-24 mm today and it is funneling a lot more.  So, that's not a good thing.  And, I'm contracting quite a bit.   But, overall it still isn't below 20 mm and the babies both still look very good.  But, the combination of the contractions, shorter cervix and fFN have the doctor concerned.  He considered sending me to the hospital for a few days to go on magnesium sulfate, but he thinks that the tocolytic I was on before (indomethacin) will be as effective and we're still in a window where we can use it for brief periods of time.

So, I'm back on the med (and already feeling the loopifying effects) but at a lower dose and only from now until Tuesday.  Hopefully enough to keep the contractions down but not long enough to have a big impact on the fluid levels again.  He also gave me the first of two steroid injections to help mature the boys' lungs just in case.  He started talking about how to get the second dose 24 hours later (since it will be a Saturday) and trying to figure out how to coordinate the injection at L&D at our local hospital.  My DH and I were both thinking "uh, IM injection in the hip?  Yeah, we can so totally do that ourselves."  He finally looked at us and remembered HOW we got into this pregnancy and said "oh, or you could probably do it."  We all kind of laughed.  I said "yeah, we even have extra needles and a sharps container at home."  So, my DH is very excited to get back into the injecting saddle!  (Or, maybe not...)

I'm on bed rest for at least the weekend.  We go back down to the doctor's office on Monday afternoon for another check.  If I start contracting a lot while on bed rest, I'm to go to the hospital and get on mag sulfate.  Hopefully that won't happen.

I also coordinated it so I did my glucose tolerance (1 hr) test at the MFM today.   It's a little awkward to try to get your blood drawn while simultaneously having a non-stress test and having to use one hand to hold one of the sensors in place (with the kick counter in the other hand) because Baby B was in a strange position.  The height of multitasking!  Anyway, the orange stuff was icky but not too bad.  The babies definitely enjoyed the sugar rush!  Hopefully all will be clear with that.

Anywho -- seriously the brain fog is starting to set in from the meds, so I think I'll stop typing now before I lose the ability to have a coherent thought!  Thanks for all of your good thoughts yesterday.  I feel confident that we're going to be OK and the boys aren't coming out soon -- we just need to be cautious to make sure that's true.