More Pre-Term Labor drama

At about week 32 the pre-term labor drama started to pick up. I was in and out of the triage unit at Sutter's Labor and Delivery wing. I was given nifedipine to hault contractions and took this medication every 12 hours for a couple of weeks. This drug worked wonders however if I was even 30 minutes late taking my scheduled dose, I would immediately start having more intense contractions. There were days that the medication didn't quite work creating a revisit to the hospital for different drugs to prevent labor. Nifedipine was the drug I was on up until I delivered.

My contractions never really subsided even on the medications. The severity of the contractions would vary and when severe (once at 5 minutes apart) I would end up in the hospital for more monitoring, more drugs, but always allowed to come home.

I would say I visited the hospital about 10 times in the weeks leading up to delivery. It was fun for Ed and I to take bets as to if it would be the day we'd finally get to meet our little ones.