Another Fun Adventure to L&D... 11am-4pm

So for the past few days i have had contractions and braxton hicks and this morning they started to come 5-7 minutes apart and i had 7 within the hour. so i call my dr and they tell me to go to L&D, so i call dave at work and tell him that i have to go to the hospital. I tried to call my sister to watch dj so dave didnt have to take any time off but she was in class. so dave picks me up and were off to the hospital. So when i get there some of the nurses remembered me from 3 weeks ago and they wisk me to a room. we get hooked up to the monitors and the contractions started to come every 3 minutes then die down to every 5 minutes then go back to 3. They were trying to get ahold of my doctor to see what he wants the nurses to do but he had left early for the day and he was in Pebble Beach golfing... LMAO! so i get one of the on call nurses.

After being there for 2 hours they give me the Fetal Fibronectin swab to see if i will be delivering within the next two weeks so 2 hours later we get the results and they are negative, which is great! while we were waiting they checked me and i am still at 2cm and thick. So the contractions start to subside and they say that i get to go home!!! The bad news is that i have to go back on Bedrest ;(

DJ Didnt want to get down, he wanted to lay in the bed with me :)







INFO ON THE FFN TEST....
Fetal fibronectin (fFN) is a protein produced by fetal cells and a type of fibronectin. fFN is found at the interface of the chorion and the decidua (between the fetal sack and the uterine lining).
It can be thought of as an adhesive or "biological glue" that binds the fetal sack to the uterine lining. Fetal fibronectin "leaks" into the vagina if a preterm delivery is likely to occur and can be measured in a diagnostic test.[1]
It is an excellent biological marker of premature (preterm) delivery; a delivery before 37 weeks of gestation.
When the fFN test is considered positive, delivery is likely to occur soon. When the fFN test is negative, it means that there is little if any danger of preterm labour for 7-10 days. The test is easily performed. A specimen is collected from the patient using a vaginal swab. The swab is placed in a transport tube and sent to the lab for testing. The lab can easily produce a test result in less than one hour.
A systematic review of the medical literature found that fetal fibronectin is a good predictor of spontaneous preterm birth before cervical dilation.[2] The test may be run on patients between 22 and 35 weeks gestation.
A negative fetal fibronectin test gives a more than 95% likelihood of remaining undelivered for the next 2 weeks. On the other hand, a positive fetal fibronectin test indicates a higher risk of preterm delivery (61% of delivery before 34 weeks)[3]. So, the fetal fibronectin test can't tell you for sure that you are in labor, but it can tell you that you're not.