Today, Caleb and I have been married 5 years!! To celebrate… Caleb had a clinical at the hospital all day, and I went to the doctor. haha! :) [We'll do something nice tomorrow.]
Over the past week or so, I’ve been having a lot more of what I guess are just Braxton Hicks contractions… no pain or any other real symptoms associated with them. So I didn’t pay them much attention. Then Molly was telling me about having contractions over the weekend that sounded a lot like mine, and she went to the hospital about it. Soooo… I got a little more concerned. Caleb and I timed them the other night, and I was having them every five minutes for about 60 seconds each. The reading I’d done says if you have more than 5 contractions an hour, you should call your doctor. They tapered of after about 9pm, so I just kinda let it go. But I emailed the doc office to let them know what was up.
So today I had my regular 34 week appointment, and they hooked me up to a monitor to see how things were going. Stella’s data looked great! She’s moving around a lot and her heart rate is strong. Results for me showed I was definitely having some regular contractions. Too early for that! So Dr. V prescribed some meds to stop the contractions and now wants to see me once a week. She told me to go home and take it easy. Here’s what that looks like:
