You would think that sitting alone in hospital for 7 weeks straight I would've had plenty of time to write several updates. However I am slacker and haven't felt like it lol. I've sewn bears for the kids, made knitted hats, and have been working on crocheting blankets for them. Facebook and pinterest also killed a lot of time for me. I even did a little reading! Most importantly I've been busy keeping the babies on the heart rate monitors, which has been very time consuming!
Things were very quiet and uneventful for the most part weeks 26-30. The biggest thing that happened was trying to take the Gestational Diabetes test. The first time I drank the glucola - orange soda like syrup, I started throwing up about 30 mins after finishing it. The doctors said that if I got Brachs Classic Jelly Beans, I could take the test after eating 28 of them, no black ones. I had several people shopping for these stupid jelly beans that apparently are only available at Easter! >< Needless to say they said let's go with the glucola again after about a week and a half of unsuccessful jell bean searching. (27w) They gave me zophran(sp?), an anti nausea med, before I drank it and I was able to keep it down. Unfortunately, I failed and had to take the long version of the test.. failed again. So I've been getting my fingers pricked 4 times a day to check my sugar ever since! There was a little miscommunication to the dietary people and I was put on an overweight person diabetic diet - no fat or sodium and limited carbs. Even though I questioned it daily, it wasn't resolved until my BP dropped so low I almost passed out and was given IV fluids 2 days in a row. The actual GD diet isn't too bad and my sugars only went crazy when I got a couple rounds of the steroids for the babies' lungs, betamethatsone, the medicine is known to spike sugars.
When I was first admitted, the nurses and doctors told me that as we got farther along and the the babies got bigger, it would be much easier to find them and keep them on the monitors. Bullcrap! Some days they cooperated very well, but I've seen these kids on the ultrasound many times simply because we couldn't find them with the monitors!
I started having a lot of contractions around 30w3d. At first they were chalked up to Braxton Hicks and no one worried about them. I got anxious if I had more than a couple in an hour because I'd read about preterm labor and how it's not painful for a lot of women. I am in very good hands here at Shands. When the contractions got to less than 10 mins apart, they put on a TOCO, another monitor to measure contractions. At first, it was still Braxton Hicks.. no real rhythm or pain to the contractions. But we started magnesium anyway for the babies' neurological development and did the betamethatsone shots. While on the magnesium, I got the real deal contractions that were painful and close together, so they upped it to the highest dose. It was a miserable 2 days! Magnesium makes you feel heavy, like really strong pain killers on top of being drunk. Luckily I had great nurses who took great care of me! I only dilated to 1.5cm and the contractions almost stopped so I was able to get off of it and felt normal again after a few hours. From my hips down was extremely swollen and a little tender from not moving mixed with the magnesium but after about a week it's now gone down a lot, close to normal!
Well now I think we're up to date. I spoke with Dr. Gregg today. He's been my main doctor since 14w and is head of Maternal & Fetal Medicine at Shands. He will be doing the surgery for us on Thursday - less than 48 hours from now I will meet my babies!!! He also said that I'll be on a low dose of magnesium again for a few hours before the surgury to benefit the babies' brains... not really looking foreward to that lol!!
Amanda
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