At 1 AM Tuesday morning I woke up to a contraction. I went to the bathroom and came back to bed. I felt another one and this one was painful. I went back to the bathroom and felt a contraction on the toilet. I was very uneasy and knew something wasn't right. I went back to bed and felt another painful contraction. I knew at that point something was waaaay off. I paged my nurse and she got me on a monitor. She watched me for 10 minutes and came back in and was like "do you feel like you can get off the monitor?" I was like "I don't know lady, you tell me, your the nurse. Am I okay!?!?" Ok so I wasn't rude about it cause I try to suck up to all my nurses but this nurse has made me mad a couple times by not caring if my babies come off the monitors and not attempting to get them back on. She asked if I was still feeling contractions and I told her yes. She said she would leave me on for 10 more minutes and then take me off. I sure showed her. In those 10 minutes I started contracting every 2-3 minutes. These aren't the same contractions as the ones I felt during preterm labor take 1. These were mean and painful and back labor. I was in pain. She came back in 30 minutes later and flipped on the light and asked me if I was in pain. I told her yes and she said I was having a lot of contractions she was going to check my cervix and then get the doctor. She checked me and I was still a 4 and 80% so these weren't dialating me.
She then got the doctor and the doctor told her to put me on saline just in case I was dehydrated. She started the saline and left it for 2 hours. In that time the pain got worse. My back was hurting and I was vocalizing with each contraction. Every time I had to get up to pee I would get shivers and would shiver uncontrollably even though I wasn't cold. I knew this was my answer to prayer and that I wasn't going to deliver, but I was still in a lot of pain. We put the heating pad behind my back to help with the back pain and waited to see what the doctor would say. The saline wasn't working so the doctor had them give me a shot of morphine. The morphine helped for maybe 45 minutes and then the contractions felt stronger. I was checked again and no dialation which was very good but didn't help the pain I was in. I was given another shot of morphine and contractions slowed enough for me to get some sleep. I slept for maybe an hour and was woken up by a nasty contraction. After awhile I decided it must be some other type of pain because contractions don't last that long. My nurse was there watching. She asked "Did you feel that 5 minute contraction?" Yes I felt that!! Was that a contraction??? Do contractions even last that long!?!?!?! The babies weren't phased by the contraction but I sure was. I was given tylenol and I was able to get some sleep.
My doctor came in and said that I wasn't going home this week. He also said what it looks like is my uterus is going to start a trend where if contracts like this every couple days but we get no dialation. He said eventually it will kick into gear and I will have another episode of contractions, my uterus will dialate and we will have babies. But he wouldn't be surprised to see me have more of these contractions and that's the reason we are staying in the hospital (praying we stay in for a long time, I just don't feel safe at home I want my babies to be monitored and I don't want to make fifty billion trips to labor and delivery).
So contractions were gone and I was able to get some sleep. I slept for about 2 hours when I was woken up by the worst contraction. It surprised me and all I could do was thrash around the bed. I'm sure no one could tell it was a contraction the way I was moving. The pain just kept coming. FINALLY it stopped and I immediately took a shower so the hot water would help calm my uterus. So that brings us to now. No contractions anymore (at least that I know of, I'm no longer hooked up) and so tired I can't keep my eyes open
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