Oh geez, I hope you can hang on even a couple more weeks. As you know too well, every extra day cooking is, well, making your babby better cooked.
Or something.
Take care! Relax! Sleep lots! Keep us posted!!!
kam
Indeed. Babies, unlike steak, are best well-done. 
Hang in there, hon.
Eeek, thinking of you! Stay in, little watermelon!
Just posting to wish you well.
Hang in there, peanut.
I’m sending your cervix “toit like a toiger” vibes.
I don’t suppose there’s a chance you could spend most of each day lying on your left side in a tub full of warm water, sipping on hydrating drinks?
OMG, that sounds heavenly. I may just do that for an hour or so.
Seriously hon, do it, and do it every damn night until the baby is born. Buy bath salts. Light candles. Lock the door. Play woo music. Just DO it. You know that once the baby is born you won’t do it again for about six years, right? It’s good for you and you also deserve it for going through a pregnancy.
This is small potatoes compared to hospital IVs and stuff, but it is what the midwives told me to do when I had worrisome contractions with both my babies. In my case it did help. Though I continued to have so many Braxton Hicks that it became my new normal, and I didn’t believe I was in actual labor until I was 8cm dilated!
I am going to take this advice! Believe me!
That is what happened with the twins. I was on terbutaline pills and went a month and felt fine. Barely felt anything, but a few BH, then got to the OB for my regular visit in and was 4 cm dilated, they sent me to the hospital for more shots and fluids to try and stop the contractions, it didn’t work so they gave me the steroid shot for the babies’ lungs, my water broke at 12 am, and by 9 am the next day I was 9 cm and ready to deliver. The Dr. panicked and immediately rished me into an emergency c-sec. I don’t want to go through that again. n
April R, as much as we all like to pretend this place is just characters on a page, some of the stuff that goes on here can raise one’s blood pressure, especially if one is in a delicate way. I know I was highly perturbable and emotional for most of my pregnancy. So promise that baby and this stranger that if you notice that you’re are feeling riled up at all, step away and find something else to do for a few weeks, or at least avoid religion, politics, child care… or anything else that raises your ire. We’ll be here when you get back. You and the baby are in my thoughts, meditate, pray, read… whatever it takes to relax and hang on: do it. If you’ve got the discipline to stick to that faith you believe in, you’ve certainly got the discipline to focus fully on hanging on to that life inside you until she’s ready to breathe on her own.
Thanks Troppus. Fortunately I only ever let one thread get me riled up, and I learned my lesson that this is just a message board and I let it go. But I will take the advice and walk away if I need to. Thank you again, it really means a lot that strangers would care so much. 
April R, how are things?
Doing good. I am at an impasse though on the meds they want me to take. I haven’t had any major contractions since Monday, and the meds they prescribed me have been found to cause digital malformations and fetal death in animal studies in doses equivalent to less than the recommended dosage, so I would rather wait to see if I get contractions again before taking it. I don’t want to risk the health and development of my baby just because I am uncomfortable. I don’t know, it’s a hard choice. Plus, when I researched it, they aren’t even sure if it actually helps with contractions in the sense that it would prevent early labor, and the doctor wasn’t even going to prescribe me anything until I said something during our appointment. So I am keeping it on hand just in case but I am not going to take it unless I truly need it, right now the benefits don’t outweigh the risks
It’s called procardia btw.
If it’s of any comfort, the digital malformations would (I imagine) be more of a risk earlier on in the pregnancy; I don’t know if the studies make any mention of whether this occurred earlier or later in the pregnancy.
Similar question on the fetal death: was that when tested earlier on in pregnancy or later on.
When you see the doctor, ask also about other tocolytics (I think that’s the word). Also at this point in the pregnancy, alcohol is highly unlikely to cause issues (though I’d bet most doctors won’t want to recommend it); a glass of wine or something might help. I seem to recall reading that somewhere, anyway. I know that terbutaline (an asthma med, like albuterol) has been used as well.
And yeah on the “does it work?” - that seems to be the general question, they “think” things work but no formal studies confirm OR refute it.
ETA: Just realized you mentioned having used terbutaline before, so obviously you know all about it. Probably made you feel vile, didn’t it!! (I remember that when I had it for asthma).
Yea, terbutaline is so vile they won’t even send you home on it anymore! I have had shots the two times I have been to the hospital of terbutaline. Made me feel like I had just drank 8 cups of coffee!
I am just going to be honest with the Doc. I am going to tell her I only took it once since she gave me the procardia and have had no contractions since our last visit and ask her what she thinks I need to do. I won’t lie, but I also won’t blindly follow doctors just because they are doctors, they make mistakes too. My husband is a Pharmacist and he admits medicine is a practice not a science, LOL.
So, April R, any news? Still holding on?
Laying here with more contractions, but I am holding steady. No pain, not uncomfortable. So I am going to keep resting and timing them. The doctor said I didn’t need to run back to the hospital unless I noticed leakage or they were painful. He said “this may be your new normal until the baby comes.”
Oh joy :rolleyes:
Thinking of you and hoping everything goes well. After your (hoping it’s full-term) baby is born you will not have much time to rest!
No joke. I don’t rest much as it is, LOL. I think my twins are helping me train for the sleeplessness of a newborn. 
Okay, it’s been 3 more days – Are you still doing your best to rest?