Preterm contractions
Last night around 11:30 PM, (after trying to go to sleep since 10, but was to uncomfortable) I started having some pretty intense contractions. I wasn’t timing them at first, but once they got bad enough to start tracking, they were about 1 minute long and roughly 4 minutes apart. They continued getting more intense and were honestly unbearable for a while.
We went to the hospital and were put on a monitor. they tried to check my cervix, but unfortunately they couldn’t reach it(the nurse had the shortest fingers you could possibly imagine and in my prior pregnancy they also struggled to reach my cervix even at 39 weeks!!), so we don’t know if there has been any cervical change. They gave me an IV saline drip(I was not and have not been dehydrated I’ve been drinking atleast 90floz of water a day), and after that the contractions started to calm down. By around 4 AM, they were about 10 minutes apart and much more bearable.
This morning I had a few random contractions, but nothing consistent or nearly as intense and they seemed to have gone away now.
Completely freaked out 🥴
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i went to the hospital last night as well because of contractions and found put im 2cm dilated 50% effaced but we have been able to slow the contractions luckily
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Oh no! I hope you are okay! Make sure to rest up, you are almost there.
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