Womb-Thing Down For The Count

(22w0d)
Alpha (the girl) remains the guard at the gate, firmly and consistently stretched out over my cervix. The two boys are now feet-down... on her. Already piling on top of her. Typical boys :-).

My cervix was still long (oh, happy day!)

After complaining explaining that it appears my new inability to sleep lying flat (due to the nasty habit my stomach now has of sending food I ingested... like... EONS ago up into my mouth... quite the wake up call!!) heralds the end of my Second Trimester "Honeymoon" *sigh* (and you ain't never seen a woman soooo happy to have gotten TO such a honeymoon, much less past it...), I went on to explain why I ended up seeing his partner last week.

I was possibly a bit nonchalant about the whole thing (perhaps a little smug since at that point I knew my Cervix of Steel remained firmly entrenched?). See, although the contractions remained very somewhat disconcerting (and when active continue several times an hour), I assumed it was my "new baseline" and I had learned to minimize and live with them. I was just grateful that the frequency had decreased significantly. I figured they were "just" BH contractions, and I hear all the time about women who have BH contractions through their pregnancy and don't have to be medicated. I didn't want to be a freaky pregnant lady (*snort* too late for that!). I clearly had lost sight of the mantras... "triplets are very high risk", and "this is NOT a normal triplet pregnancy".

He said BH are by definition contractions that don't change the cervix, "So unless you are managing to measure your cervix at home in a way I'm not familiar with. Or unless you, like T.om C.ruise, have your own ultrasound machine at home, you can't be sure they are actually BH".

*for a brief second, images of me attempting to... no, never mind. Believe me. It wasn't pretty.

"Ummmm. Good point", I conceded.
Score one for Dr. Peri.

He was happy with my new lack of activity (something about how since the contractions are much worse when I am up and around, the whole "Hey doc, my arm hurts when I do this" thing applies). And still much approves of my daily pool time. Although my cervix hadn't really changed, Dr. Peri wanted to calm down my eager Womb-Thing so that I would be able to tell if things start changing and will know when to call into the office.

He started me on low dose of P.rocardia which we filled ON OUR WAY OUT OF TOWN TO MY BROTHER'S WEDDING!
After nearly 24 hours and a long wedding dinner later.... bingo, bango, bongo... I have had only 2 contractions.

We have the whole fam damily here except... for Dad. He is serving as Mission President for our church and is therefore unable to leave and come to to the wedding :-(. But having everyone else (including nieces and nephews) at the dinner last night meant a good time was had by all... well, except one nephew who hit his head so hard on the wall the sound reverberated through the restaurant :-). It was a raucous good time, Fuhriman-style!

Life couldn't be sweeter.