The saga continues...

Well the saga continues...

On Wed night I pulled a muscle in my shoulder. So I rang Healthline and asked them what I could take to help with the pain coz I couldn't sleep. They told me I neede to go straight to hospital, and to call an ambulance. So I did what I was told.

Anyways, after sitting in the emergency department for 2 hours in a wheelchair, I was getting really uncomfortable so they found me a bed but I couldn't lie down coz of the shoulder pain. The babies were not terribly impressed, and I started having contractions about 5am. So I called the midwife and the obstetrician met me upstairs in the Maternity unit.

He could feel the contractions thru my stomach, but the CTG looked all good and they did a scan and both bubs were bouncing around, and they also scanne dmy gallbladder, kidneys, liver and just about every other internal organ and all were fine as well. So no answers on why I was having contractions. They also did some special swab to test whether I am at risk of prem labour which came back negative, and an internal that showed I wasn't dilating which was a good sign.

The OB decided to keep me in overnight for observation and the contractions continued on and off for most of yesterday but settled down eventually. So I hve been allowed to come home.

But now my m/w and OB want me to switch to the hospital team because they think I am High Risk and require more time than they can give which freaks me out a bit. But we have agreed to wait and see how the next few weeks go and if I have any more probs I will have to go with the hospital team, but if things continue on normally then I can stay with my own m/w. She also thinks I was being overdramatic calling an ambulance, but I was just doing what I was told, and I was in so much pain at the time that I couldn't have driven anywhere.

So I have my fingers very tightly crossed that my babies will behave over the next few weeks, coz I don't want to end up with some random hospital doctors.

emma the high risk team at nat womens are great - i had the same dr the whole way thru and she was awesome - her name was emma too. you just dont get to see them when you deliver.!!

have you lost my phone number????

ooop!!!! my ph is out of juice and in my handbag... i think!? will go find it and plug it in...

Oh wow Emma....not a very good few day huh?

I hope that the twins stay put and are good to you. You try and take care...how did you pull the muscle....as usual you were super mum, huh?? You should rest up now and live all the work to your man......

LOL Roksana - nothing that interesting. I think I caught a chill on it in the bath

Yikes! You poor girl, what a horrible night!
I hope your shoulder eases up soon.
Take it really easy Emma, instruct those little bubs to stay put and keep growing. The world isn't ready to meeet them yet!
Thinking of you and hoping your feet are up as you read this.

Oh boy, Emma, what a drama! I hope they figure out what happened to cause those contractions - and that it was a one-off event! Stay put, Gremlins, it's not time to come yet.

Oh Emma, that sounds awful. Hope you are feeling better now and that everything settles down.

Geez you didnt tell me the whole story. So how is the muscle now? And i see you safely have the laptop in bed (well youd better be in bed missy!)

Hmmm, pain relief - apparantly MORPHINE of all things is safe during pregnancy. And thats about all. And I was sooooo not wanting any morphine, they eventually had to hold me down just about to give it to me coz the pain was so bad I wasn't coping.

My m/w thinks stress brought on the contractions, and she could be right - the pain in my shoulder was worse than labour, and because pf where it was I couldn't get comfy in any position which made it really hard to cope with.

Thanks for all your thoughts