2 strikes

Yesterday was pretty eventful, and now I have two strikes against me :(

I went to the peri and was on the monitor for contractions (as part of my regulr routine) and I was having contractions about every five minutes. They gave me a shot of terbutaline to stop them and they started me on progesterone as well. They then did a cervical ultrasound and that looked good - it was a little short for me but still long and closed at 4.5 cm. I went back on the monitor after the shot and the contractions essentially stopped, but on the way to my OB (which was just a regularly scheduled appointment) I had a bunch more and even had some while just waiting in his office. I started the oral terb and overnight that seemed to stop the contractions.

So I went back to the OB this morning to make sure that the contractions had in fact stopped and they did. He re-checked my cervix and it was still long and closed - everything looks good. My FFN from yesterday came back negative which was a huge relief. He was swaying between putting me on bedrest right now or letting me go back to work. I have to go back to the peri tomorrow anyway for a growth scan and an NST. He said if everything looks good there, then I should be good to go back to work on Monday. So I'm offically on bedrest for the weekend - not a horrible sentence.

I really hope I can go back to work because, while the idea of not having to work is amazing, the idea of the financial burden it would cause is extremely overwhelming. I guess we'll just have to see how things go tomorrow - fingers crossed that they go as well as they did today - and go from there.

The bottom line is that this is 2 strikes against me. So one more little blip and I'm done :( I want these babies to cook for at least another 6 weeks so I'll do whatever I can to make that work, but I'm really hoping that third strike stays far away.