Cynthis and Cris's mail
jwright@ldl.net
Wed, 27 Mar 1996 21:31:49 -0500
I can ditto this letter.Contractions and no pain and everything. It is
strange that we all had a similar experience from the same medication. My
preemie doesn't fit into any of the preemie size stuff either. She was a
twin and big. At two months she was huge. She is almost one now and almost
30 pounds. She doesn't look fat but man is she heavy.
Stephanie
At 05:03 PM 3/27/96 EST5, you wrote:
>
>Cynthia,
>
>After seeing your message, I believe the medications are playing
>tricks on our babies! Brethane, I was told, is what I received.
>Although the form of it I received was called Terbutaline. Yes, it
>made me crazy, too! Imagine 16 weeks of trembling, your heart doing
>flip-flops in your chest, monitoring your pulse, and feeling your
>baby kick around like a Ninja in your womb! I eventually got so used
>to it that I could control my shakiness to some degree by
>concentrating on it! I once tried to polish my nails to make myself
>feel better--well, it looked like my unborn child had tried to do the
>polishing!
>
>Brandon, too, was never small the way a preemie should be. He
>weighed 7 lbs, 3 oz, 21.5" long. We thought that maybe someone had
>made a mistake in calculating my due date (which made me hyper to
>think that I might have laid there in bed 3 or 4 weeks longer than
>necessary). I asked my OB/GYN and she confirmed that he was a
>preemie and that no mistake had been made. She said she could tell
>by the consistency of the mucous that covered him at birth, as well
>as the lines on the bottoms of his feet.
>
>About your contractions....ditto! Really, I laid in bed for 16 weeks
>having extremely hard contractions but never feeling an ounce of
>pain! I could always tell that they were strong and needed
>attention, though. It was really kind of nice, because I was in
>enough mysery the way it was without having to lay there and suffer
>through labor pains for 16 weeks as well! The night I delivered
>Brandon (full moon--I believe the wive's tale), I had been in "the"
>labor for about 7 hours (I had been off the Terbutaline since noon
>that day), roaming the halls of labor and delivery trying to progress
>and get it over with, and I had yet to feel a single pain! In
>between walks I was put back on the monitor for 30 minutes each time.
>At one point a nurse checked on me and I looked at the monitor strip
>(contractions were heavy-duty and about 90 seconds apart) and then
>asked the nurse what the strip would look like when I was in truly
>hard labor--you know--the labor that says "this is it". She just
>looked at me and smiled, and said, "just like this". I told her that
>I had not felt any pain, and all she did was smile again (L&D was
>full and I was being monitored in a supply closet for lack of space),
>put her fingers to her lips, and told me not to tell any of the otehr
>expectant mothers there--it might create a lynch mob! After several
>episodes of walking with my mother and my husband, I began having
>mild pain with contractions. The pain got worse as the night went
>on, and by the time the doctor broke my water I was in so much pain
>that I couldn't even move (I couldn't have even bent over long enough
>to get an epideral). But it's funny about having contractions with
>no pain. Maybe it's natures way of saying, "OK, you're suffering
>enough, so I'll go easy on you."
>
>I feel much better knowing there are mothers out there with
>experiences similar to mine!
>
>Cris
>
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>
>
>
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