# premature labor **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 17, 2013, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/premature-labor/653142 "2013-03-17T02:07:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2013, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/premature-labor/653142/21 "2013-03-17T23:11:20Z")
Checking in. How are you doing? I’m sure the kids are pampering you! ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2013, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/premature-labor/653142/22 "2013-03-18T00:46:22Z")
I missed this last night! With my first son I had two full days of very regular what I assume were Braxton Hicks. Then they quit. I was about 37 weeks though. If they’re not painful and “productive” I never worried about them. Thinking of you! And PLEASE keep us informed! ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2013, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/premature-labor/653142/23 "2013-03-18T01:55:57Z")
I am doing better. I have been resting all day and feel like a slob but they seem to have subsided a bit. I know baby girl is less restless and seems to have settled down. ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2013, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/premature-labor/653142/24 "2013-03-18T13:50:33Z")
yea, so after calming down a bit yesterday and sleeping great though the night, the contractions are back and getting a bit painful this morning. I go to my regular OB appointment today at 9:45 so I am definitely probably going back to labor and delivery for observation. This is my glucola visit, so yay! This stuff isn’t as bad as I remember. I got the fruit punch flavor this time. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2013, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/premature-labor/653142/25 "2013-03-18T13:54:35Z")
Please keep us posted! Rooting for you here, and hoping that baby stays baking just a little longer! ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2013, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/premature-labor/653142/26 "2013-03-18T13:59:27Z")
Me too! But this hurts and is definitely not normal. Owwies! ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2013, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/premature-labor/653142/27 "2013-03-18T15:45:15Z")
> [@Antigen](#): > > Please keep us posted! Rooting for you here, and hoping that baby stays baking just a little longer! Ditto. Hopefully the next we hear from you you’ll be posting from the hospital, where they’ve gotten those contractions STOPPED DAMMIT. Or better yet from home, where you have returned after the doc has checked you and said “you doofus, these are early BH contractions and you’re fine”. ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2013, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/premature-labor/653142/28 "2013-03-18T16:06:45Z")
I got good news at the OB today, everything looks great physically, there’s no bed rest and I can continue activity as normal. Apparently she just measuring bigger than normal and this is just my body’s normal prep for birth. So I’ll probably go early but not too early! She can just stick it out for another 5 weeks I’ll be good! ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2013, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/premature-labor/653142/29 "2013-03-18T16:11:07Z")
Thanks for keeping us posted - good luck to you and yours. ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2013, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/premature-labor/653142/30 "2013-03-18T16:57:45Z")
Thanks so much. These contractions are annoying but the Dr. said no need for concern unless I see anything leaking or whatnot. So yay! ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2013, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/premature-labor/653142/31 "2013-03-18T17:47:28Z")
> [@April\_R](#): > > Thanks so much. These contractions are annoying but the Dr. said no need for concern unless I see anything leaking or whatnot. So yay! Yay! ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2013, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/premature-labor/653142/32 "2013-03-18T21:56:18Z")
Glad to hear it! ---
**Author:** ![Cinnamon\_Imp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@Cinnamon\_Imp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Imp)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2013, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/premature-labor/653142/33 "2013-03-23T19:24:22Z")
Belated congrats - glad it’s going okay, and hope there’s been nothing too “eventful” since 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2013, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/premature-labor/653142/34 "2013-03-23T21:17:53Z")
Unfortunately I was back at the hospital last night for some intense contractions. They gave me more fluids and terbutaline to get them back under control. So it is touch and go right now. I am at home but I am not traveling far from home in case I need to go back to the hospital again. The only time I got so upset last night was when they insisted on putting in a urinary catheter to get a urine sample, that made me cry. I’d rather deal with the painful contractions than the urinary catheter ugh ☹ ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2013, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/premature-labor/653142/35 "2013-03-24T03:38:28Z")
Hang in there! Thinking of you and your family and new tiny girl! ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2013, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/premature-labor/653142/36 "2013-03-24T03:43:37Z")
thank you so much! I was really hoping I was done with the scares, but it looks like this may be my next few months. Thanks so much for the support, it really does help. ---
**Author:** ![MLS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2013, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/premature-labor/653142/37 "2013-03-24T19:13:21Z")
Wishing the best for you and the little one. Every day that goes by she is getting closer and closer to being full term. When you first posted you were 29 weeks; now you’re 30+! One day at a time, as they say. ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2013, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/premature-labor/653142/38 "2013-03-25T22:33:30Z")
so the baby is already head down. I got put on procardia for the contractions. Yippie :rolleyes: My due date isn’t until June…ergh ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/premature-labor/653142/39 "2013-03-26T02:31:15Z")
Oh boy! Thinking good thoughts for you and the peanut. ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/premature-labor/653142/40 "2013-03-26T02:36:35Z")
Thanks! I am hanging in there ad doing what I can. The peanut is getting to be more like a watermelon! LOL [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/premature-labor/653142.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/premature-labor/653142.md?page=3)