Sunday, December 12, 2010

Update

Well, we've been off the magnesium since Thursday evening and are still pregnant!  It's wonderful to not be hooked up to an IV 24/7 and on Friday Scott even got to take me for a quick wheelchair ride!  After not leaving my room for 25 days it was quite an exciting ride :)  Who knew that looking at a nurses' station and a hallway could be so fun?  The nurses and other patients probably thought we were crazy doing lap after lap around the station but I just didn't want to go back to the room!  I'm now taking a combination of oral drugs to slow the contractions which seems to be working for now.  I still contract every 10-30 minutes but that's better than it has been at times.  Saturday the doctor even considered sending us home, but she spoke too soon.  I think the babies must have heard her because right away they starting having late decelerations (dips in their heart rates after contractions).  It's probably because one or both of the their cords are getting compressed during contractions.  Right now it's not too serious (although at one point the words "emergency c-section" were brought up) but we also can't go home.  Oh Luke and Amelia, you are going to give us gray hair before you're even born!

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