Premature labour

By: mummy2adam Mood: sick Date: 05/31/2008 22:15:00 Music: None

31 May 2008

33+1 - part 2!

Well where did I get to............

Tuesday. well was just monitored on ward all day and night. pain relief managed etc.

Wed - well what a horrid day, registrar and sho came round and wanted to discharge me despite still contracting 3 in 10.
Agreed I could stay one more night but no longer.

I fell apart crying on another patient. I really felt like noone was listening to me and how I felt or was feeling.

Then
in walks a mw called Sue. She is amazing!! SHe came in to do a trace
and saw I was a mess. She let me cry on her for over an hour and helped
me talk through all my concerns etc. She did my trace and despite it
not showing my contractions she palpated each one and wrote it down.
She discussed everything so clearly with me and actually understood how
I was feeling as she is one of the few who have actually had children!!

She
contacted my consultant (who again is wonderful) and she came up after
she had finished work. She sat with Paul and I and discussed our fears
and worries, what I was feeling emotionally and physically and where we
wanted to go from here on in. She got my scan moved forward and got me
written up for regular anti sickness meds and also nifedipene to help
with contractions.
She came back the followong morning to check on me and also pushed for my scan.

She came back and saw me after my scan to discuss the outcome, which was great!!

Twinkle is 2.2kg(approx), is a fatty and is very firmly breech!!!

She
agreed that if I can make it 3 more weeks she will deliver me at 36ks
if still contracting. She will insist on Twinkle having another dose of
steroids before delivery just to help lungs but hey only 3 weeks max to
go!!!

I am home now on Nifedipene, dihydracodeine, paracetamol, temazepam, metaclopramide, ferrous sulphate and plenty of rest!

She expects I will be back in very soon anyway but hey. I have an end in sight!!!

My midwife came today to check how I was and discuss any concerns.
She
phoned the out of hours docs to get me an urgent prescription for
canestan pessary as I now have a very severe case of thrush after all
the interference down that end.

She did urine - all clear
bp - raised - 140/80 when normally for this pg is 90/50(60)
listened in to Twinkle - Heartrate of 120-160 so all good there.

I
have made clear notes for my delivery. I have to ask for a telemetry
monitor when go into labour so I can be mobile as much as possible.
Also NO EPIDURAL - I want a spinal block again for my CS.
No Pethidine unless I am dying!

Paul to tell me sex of baby
Picture of baby being weighed if not too small
Pic of the 3 of us

To breastfeed immediately (or within 1st hour) or if baby in NNU then to express immediately.

I have to see cons again on thursday(5th) and final Anti-D on 9th.
MW again on 11th

I
want to thank everyone from here for all their love and support. You
are all truly fantastic and I couldn't have done it without you!!! xxxx

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31 May 2008

33+1!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OMG How the heck have I got this far!!!

A lot has happened since my last entry!!!

Very nearly had this baby twice now!!!

on Tuesday 13th may I ended up having full blown contractions start and had to go into the labour ward at 1.30am!
Was seen by docs immediately and given steroids and nifedipene to try and stop cntractions.

Was
contracting 3-4 in 10 and at varying strengths and length of time. As
per usual the CTG wasn;t picking them up due to my abnormal insides. (I
don't know if this happens to othe mums with doubles but its so
frustrating)

I was kept on the labour ward until the thursday
and eventually after a growth scan and cervix check by the head of
Feto-Maternal Medicine I was tranferred to what is now my 3rd home -
Burley Ward in Princess Anne Hospital.

I was monitored daily and
on the monday (19th) I was discharged and told if contractions really
kicked off again then I was to go back.
I was only discharged cos they were short-staffed and the sister from hell was on.

However I went home, rested up and did as I was told.

Friday
(23rd) came and I swore blind I felt "damp" all the time and so after
much nagging by my mum I caved in at 10pm and called the labour ward
(this was after I had eaten my tea, had a shower, sorted a few bits out
etc etc - fed up of not being allowed to eat for hours incase of cs!!)
Got to LW and was allocated a lovely mw called Sarah.
She got me checked over and then the docs came in.
Junior
doc was told to do a Fibro-nectin test on me to check for pre-term
labour but when she did speculum I had a slight look of Thrush so she
decided against it as would give a very inaccurate reading.
She
did an internal without the speculum and said my cervix(s) were both
closed but as she pulled fingers out my whole plug came away as well!
Oh well at least it as there and not at home!

I
was then told that I was going to be put on CTG for a good monitoring
before any decisions were made so to get comfy and Sarah would be back
in 10mins to attach me.

Well Paul fell asleep in the comfy chair
and after 5 mins I started to contract every 2-3 mins and boy were they
picking up in the pain levels.
Paul as you can imagine was oblivious, snoring away in the corner.

Sarah
came back in, took one look at me and said "that doesn't look good!!"
she strapped me to monitor and then very kindly let me get up and be
mobile as I was not happy lying on the bed.
Out comes the Gas & Air and puff puff away we go!!!

Doc
comes back in at this point and decides we need to prep for theatre
just in case so I had to have a cannula put in. Southampton have a new
policy in that you have to have a local anaesthetic inserted first
before cannula is sited and as soon as doc inserted it she blew the
veins on the back of my hand! great.

3 attempts later and 2nd hand and finally get a cannula in.

All this time I was contracting. Twinkles heart rate spot on. Accelerating/Decelerating when suppposed to.

Anyway
at 1am mw had to go and deal with another lady and me on my knees
panting hears "something isn't right in here - where's Adam?"

I look up and its my community mw come in to take over!! How glad was I to see her!!
Jo is fantastic. She really is.
She
was amazing through every contraction. She got me a birth ball which I
had never thought of using before (great in helping rock through early
part of contraction) She rubbed my back through every cntraction and
was so so calming and reassuring, especially when my cntractions
started hitting 100+ on the CTG!!!

After a few hours of refusing
I reluctantly gave in and had pethidine as I had been having
excructiating contractions for over 4 hrs on G&A alone.

It
was a long night and was moved to burley ward at 1am sunday morning as
they managed to slow the conts enough to go up on the ward. I was still
contracting but my useless body wont dilate and they wont deliver until
I do!

I ended up back on LW on monday night after conts picked up again and I started being violently sick.
Again, brought back under control and transferred back to ward on tuesday morning.




will
finish this a bit later (lots happened on wed thurs) as just got to go
and get my little man from the train station as not seen him in over a
week and missing him!!!!!

back soon!!