preterm labor
Gary & Tammy Bangs (gbangs@earthlink.net)
Wed, 27 Mar 1996 12:08:16 -0800
>I had my second unplanned visit to the midwife Monday, once
> again with a nagging lower backache (my only symptom last time). The
>office staff will probably begin to think I'm a little hyper, since as I get
>further along I'll be calling about any little twinge, but I don't care.
When I was pregnant with Travis (after Taylor< my preemie), I warned the doc
ahead of time that I would be a nuisance. He said no problem, he would
rather have 40 false alarms than one problem that was ignored.
With Taylor, my preemie, I ignored the contractions because they weren't
painful. By the time I finally went to the hosp. to be monitored they were a
minute and a half apart. The nurse looked at the strip, (this was at 20
weeks), asked me if I worked, I said yes, part time. She smiled and said
"not anymore you don't".
Later that week, the same nurse joked with my husband: after changing yet
another roll of the strip paper, she looked at Gary and said "you see these?"
holding up about a mile of the paper. "you're charged by the square you
know."
>Sometimes I think after all we've been through,
> we do deserve honorary medical degrees, at least in the area of
>perinatology and neonatology!:)
>
> After six years of infertility, and two test-tube babies, I know just about
everything there is to know about getting pregnant. Now after Taylor's
premature birth, and all the stuff that goes along with it, I know what to do
BEFORE, DURING AND AFTER!!!
Tammy,
Mom to Taylor and angel Alex (almost 3), Travis (17 mo), and wife to Gary
(home for the moment)