The expression, "When it rains, it pours," does not even start to describe what the last week has been like for us and these twins have not been obeying my instructions.
Let me first start off by saying that I have all these pictures and events that I want to blog about, but with all the recent events I am not sure that I am going to have the time, energy, or mind set to do it, but I will try in the near future before blogging becomes impossible.
Now where do I start. Let me say that this twin pregnancy has been going well up until now considering that I am carrying twins. I had pretty bad morning sickness the first 4 months and did not even start to gain weight until 16 weeks gestation. I had the normal tiredness, soreness, and irritability. We did find out at about my 20 week ultrasound appt that Twin B had an enlarged bladder and stomach probably caused by a small obstruction that caused fluid to build up. They could tell that he was able to swallow and urinate, but it is just a waiting game for him and making sure that it does not worsen, which it has not. He will get evaluated after he is born. My only real problem physically with this pregnancy was an umbilical hernia that I had found after being pregnant with Tyler. During this pregnancy, it caused a lot of pain and started to get larger so at 24 weeks, I was put on maternity leave for this reason and because I was having twins. Being a nurse is very labor intensive and it is not uncommon that nurses go into preterm labor, even with one baby.
I went on maternity leave at just the right time, because the very next weekend, I started to have some contractions and my feet swelled like elephant feet. Well my schedule just kept getting busy. I had Activity Days camp to attend, dr's appt, family visiting, and about 2 weeks ago two birthday parties to put on for Tyler and his cousins. Through it all, I was really enjoying not having to work, and having the flexibility to do these things while pregnant and still feeling good. But, I think all these events probably helped contribute to the predicament that I am in now.
A week ago at my scheduled ultrasound, they found that Twin B also had a 3cm cyst on his kidney. This was more concerning for me because my father had renal cancer and I have had over 20 kidney stones. We are not sure if this is contributed to the enlarged bladder and stomach or if it is entirely something else, but I was more stressed about it. My contractions had also start becoming more frequent over the weekend, but not too frequent that I knew that I needed to go to Labor and Delivery. I did call my dr to make sure and she just said to stay off my feet and rest and for the most part, I did this.
On Tuesday at 30 weeks gestation, I went for my first Antepartum test where they put the babies on the monitor and look at my contractions. They look to see the at the babies heart rate was good. I was visiting with someone in the Mothers of Multiples programs when I felt a contraction. I looked over at the nurse and asked her if it was showing up on the monitor. She told me that I had been having contractions about 2-5 min apart. I wasn't really feeling them or paying attention. I was only feeling them every 10-15 min. So once the babies passed their heart rate test, the nurse called the dr and I was sent over to Labor and Delivery because my contractions were too close together to let me go home. Once I got there, my contractions were more like 2-3 min apart. I was given a muscle relaxer to see if it would help my contractions slow down and it did. The did a test called fetal fibronectin to see if I could possibly go into labor with in 2 weeks and it came back positive. This test does have false positive and is a better indicator if the result is negative because then we know for sure that the pt will not deliver. And many people have positive test and still delivery at full term. If it is positive, it just means that I need to be watched more closely.
They also checked my dilation and I was closed and my cervix had not thinned out any more than it had from the previous week. So I ended up going home.
Then yesterday( Wed), I woke up at 4:15am with pretty painful contractions in my back and bottom occurring about every 2-5 min. I decided to start drinking a lot of water and try to go back to bed, but they did not go away. I ended up calling my on-call dr and going into L&D at about 9:30am. I was contracting about every 5 min and now my cervix was dilated 1.5cm. So they gave me some lovely drugs with side effects to stop my contractions. I stayed in the hospital until about 1:30pm when they discharged me under the conditions that if my contractions returned even while on medications at home, that I had to come back and I would be admitted to the hospital and also that I was to be on strict bed rest. Meaning only getting up to go to the bathroom and to my appts. I agreed.
Did I mention that yesterday was also Tyler's birthday. Thankfully he was in preschool during this time and had no clue what was going on when he got home.
The day only got worse from there. When I got up for my allowed bathroom privilege at about 6:30pm, somehow I stubbed my small toe and felt this painful crunching. I looked down to see my little toe sticking out from the side of my foot. Very freaky. I hollered for Eric, but didn't know what to do next. I help people deliver babies, not fixed toes. I knew it had to be yanked back into place, but I was in a little shock and I had just gotten out of the hospital. I just kept saying,"i can't believe all this is happening today." We tried calling all the medical people we knew including my mother to try and figure out exactly the course we should take, but we could not get a hold of one person. So Eric yanked on it and put it back into place.That was the worst pain that it kind of took the breath out of me and of course next came a huge contractions, but only one. The only problem for me was that it still did not feel like it was in place and it was still sticking out a little from my foot, so I felt we needed to go in and have it checked out to make sure. After getting the go around with talking to dr and urgent care about where to go, we ended up going to an extended hours urgent care. Let me just say that when you are pregnant, especially with twins, places that do not specialize in pregnant women really do not want to see you even if it is for a non pregnancy issue. I think they are afraid that you might go into labor at their office. And OBGYNs don't want to see you because they deal with only pregnancy related issues. Anyways to make this story shorter, my toes was in place, but there was a nice fracture on it. So in the end, my toe was taped to the toe right next too it and ice was put on it. Eric did a great job at fixing it and I do feel a little bad for questioning his skills.
Before Eric yanked back into place.
Overall this was probably the worse day I had had in a very long time, and I hope these twins are listening when I talk to them because I tell them to obey their mother and stay in for another 6 weeks, then they can come out to play.
Let me first start off by saying that I have all these pictures and events that I want to blog about, but with all the recent events I am not sure that I am going to have the time, energy, or mind set to do it, but I will try in the near future before blogging becomes impossible.
Now where do I start. Let me say that this twin pregnancy has been going well up until now considering that I am carrying twins. I had pretty bad morning sickness the first 4 months and did not even start to gain weight until 16 weeks gestation. I had the normal tiredness, soreness, and irritability. We did find out at about my 20 week ultrasound appt that Twin B had an enlarged bladder and stomach probably caused by a small obstruction that caused fluid to build up. They could tell that he was able to swallow and urinate, but it is just a waiting game for him and making sure that it does not worsen, which it has not. He will get evaluated after he is born. My only real problem physically with this pregnancy was an umbilical hernia that I had found after being pregnant with Tyler. During this pregnancy, it caused a lot of pain and started to get larger so at 24 weeks, I was put on maternity leave for this reason and because I was having twins. Being a nurse is very labor intensive and it is not uncommon that nurses go into preterm labor, even with one baby.
I went on maternity leave at just the right time, because the very next weekend, I started to have some contractions and my feet swelled like elephant feet. Well my schedule just kept getting busy. I had Activity Days camp to attend, dr's appt, family visiting, and about 2 weeks ago two birthday parties to put on for Tyler and his cousins. Through it all, I was really enjoying not having to work, and having the flexibility to do these things while pregnant and still feeling good. But, I think all these events probably helped contribute to the predicament that I am in now.
A week ago at my scheduled ultrasound, they found that Twin B also had a 3cm cyst on his kidney. This was more concerning for me because my father had renal cancer and I have had over 20 kidney stones. We are not sure if this is contributed to the enlarged bladder and stomach or if it is entirely something else, but I was more stressed about it. My contractions had also start becoming more frequent over the weekend, but not too frequent that I knew that I needed to go to Labor and Delivery. I did call my dr to make sure and she just said to stay off my feet and rest and for the most part, I did this.
On Tuesday at 30 weeks gestation, I went for my first Antepartum test where they put the babies on the monitor and look at my contractions. They look to see the at the babies heart rate was good. I was visiting with someone in the Mothers of Multiples programs when I felt a contraction. I looked over at the nurse and asked her if it was showing up on the monitor. She told me that I had been having contractions about 2-5 min apart. I wasn't really feeling them or paying attention. I was only feeling them every 10-15 min. So once the babies passed their heart rate test, the nurse called the dr and I was sent over to Labor and Delivery because my contractions were too close together to let me go home. Once I got there, my contractions were more like 2-3 min apart. I was given a muscle relaxer to see if it would help my contractions slow down and it did. The did a test called fetal fibronectin to see if I could possibly go into labor with in 2 weeks and it came back positive. This test does have false positive and is a better indicator if the result is negative because then we know for sure that the pt will not deliver. And many people have positive test and still delivery at full term. If it is positive, it just means that I need to be watched more closely.
They also checked my dilation and I was closed and my cervix had not thinned out any more than it had from the previous week. So I ended up going home.
Then yesterday( Wed), I woke up at 4:15am with pretty painful contractions in my back and bottom occurring about every 2-5 min. I decided to start drinking a lot of water and try to go back to bed, but they did not go away. I ended up calling my on-call dr and going into L&D at about 9:30am. I was contracting about every 5 min and now my cervix was dilated 1.5cm. So they gave me some lovely drugs with side effects to stop my contractions. I stayed in the hospital until about 1:30pm when they discharged me under the conditions that if my contractions returned even while on medications at home, that I had to come back and I would be admitted to the hospital and also that I was to be on strict bed rest. Meaning only getting up to go to the bathroom and to my appts. I agreed.
Did I mention that yesterday was also Tyler's birthday. Thankfully he was in preschool during this time and had no clue what was going on when he got home.
The day only got worse from there. When I got up for my allowed bathroom privilege at about 6:30pm, somehow I stubbed my small toe and felt this painful crunching. I looked down to see my little toe sticking out from the side of my foot. Very freaky. I hollered for Eric, but didn't know what to do next. I help people deliver babies, not fixed toes. I knew it had to be yanked back into place, but I was in a little shock and I had just gotten out of the hospital. I just kept saying,"i can't believe all this is happening today." We tried calling all the medical people we knew including my mother to try and figure out exactly the course we should take, but we could not get a hold of one person. So Eric yanked on it and put it back into place.That was the worst pain that it kind of took the breath out of me and of course next came a huge contractions, but only one. The only problem for me was that it still did not feel like it was in place and it was still sticking out a little from my foot, so I felt we needed to go in and have it checked out to make sure. After getting the go around with talking to dr and urgent care about where to go, we ended up going to an extended hours urgent care. Let me just say that when you are pregnant, especially with twins, places that do not specialize in pregnant women really do not want to see you even if it is for a non pregnancy issue. I think they are afraid that you might go into labor at their office. And OBGYNs don't want to see you because they deal with only pregnancy related issues. Anyways to make this story shorter, my toes was in place, but there was a nice fracture on it. So in the end, my toe was taped to the toe right next too it and ice was put on it. Eric did a great job at fixing it and I do feel a little bad for questioning his skills.
Before Eric yanked back into place.Overall this was probably the worse day I had had in a very long time, and I hope these twins are listening when I talk to them because I tell them to obey their mother and stay in for another 6 weeks, then they can come out to play.
