PREGNANCY-BIRTH Messages for April, 2000: contractions/previa/premature labor?

contractions/previa/premature labor?

From: Kim (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sat, 29 Apr 2000 13:50:09 -0500 (CDT)

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I have written before about my eventful pregnancy..Now I am 29 weeks, I still have a partial previa, and daily contractions. This is my third baby, so I have had two healthy uneventful/pregnancies full term babies.. I have had a previa since the 13th week, but was ordered on bedrest since week 24 (yes i feel like a cow now). Anyhow I get a lot of contractions, they HURT a lot and sometimes I will have 4-5-6 an hour and then things will stop. I have NEVER had this happen in previous pregnancies, and once I went to the hospital and the moniter did not pick them up but the peri did when she was performing an ultrasound. I have been contracting since week 24, I have had no bleeds, well once a small one after sex during the 24 week (i know no sex, fingers or tampons with a previa NOW, but was not told that then). ANyhow last night and today I had this horrible(LOWER) backache, it came and went rythmatically and was radiating down in between my legs like when I have my period. It felt like menstural cramps, I was going to call the MD, but then I got up had a HOT HOT shower and just sort of relaxed in there for a while. When I got out I felt a little better. I woke up and had three BIG contractions this AM, I mean the ones you have to breath thru. NOTHING is staying consistant, and if it does it lets up after a couple hours. I am SO freaked out about this, cause I never know if it is going to stop and everytime I ask my DR his reply is, "This is your third baby, they are BH nothing to be alarmed about." Of course since I have the previa I have not been examed to see if I am thinning out of dialted EXCEPT when I have had ultrasound and the last one was over a month ago. My peri, said that it could be the placenta is irritating the uterus and causing the contracts. My ob said maybe just an abnormality of the pregnancy. They seem cool and collected about this, while I sit home in a panic everytime this happens, the pain is unreal (and I have birthed 2 big babies vaginally)..

Any ideas? Do you think I am over reacting? What do you tell your patients about these things?

Thanks in advance for your time.

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Kim

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