The game plan as of 33 weeks & 4 days

Dr. Wiedower just stopped by on her morning rounds and we talked about a game plan for the next couple of weeks. Now we say game plan knowing fully that it may all change tomorrow. We would rather have a plan in our heads and adapt, improvise and overcome along the way. If nothing else it helps Tara as she lays in a hospital bed to feel like she knows a little of what will happen.

Tara is 33 weeks and 4 days as of today. On Monday we will be 34 weeks and 1 day. At that point they will do a fetal fibronectin test, which can serve as an indicator of her likelihood to NOT have a baby in the next two weeks if it is negative. A positive result doesn't mean much, but a negative is a good indicator that the bun will stay in the oven for a little while longer.

Dr. Wiedower also plans to take Tara off of the meds that are preventing the contractions on Monday and see what her body does. If she can get by without the meds that is a little better for Emmaline, but if we need to go right back on them we will. going off the meds at 34 weeks seems to be what Dr. Wiedower would do with most patients, but we've already learned Tara's body doesn't do labor like 'most patients'.



Since we tried the same thing at 34 weeks last go round with Crosby I went back to the older blog post to see how it went going of the meds that time. Here is an excerpt from that post on Nov. 25, 2009:

Tara's mom, Marion, spent the day hanging out with us today. Tara got a dose of her routine anti-contraction med at 7:30 this morning, then the doc gave the order to take her off of it for the rest of the day. Things were fine at first but by 3:00 pm Tara begun having contractions again. We watched them for a few minutes, but they persisted and the OB gave the order to give Tara an injection of med to stop them. That stopped them for about 45 minutes and then they came right back. Tara would tell you that they not only came back, but back with a vengeance. Dr. Wiedower decided to punt and go back to the routine doses every 4 hours to keep the contractions away. Tara was pretty uncomfortable when those contractions got rocking, but she was a real trooper! She is already being a great mom to Crosby.

Monday should be interesting. Tara is doing well and hanging in there. Thanks for the support and prayers. We are doing much better than we deserve.