Week 36.5 - False Alarm

On Wednesday, May 21st, our carrier sent me a text stating that she was having more irregular contractions and that she felt she was having more cervical changes.  After hearing this and already knowing that she was dilated to 3 from Monday's appt, I felt it was probably a good idea to go ahead and get on the road to Wisconsin.  Since most twins are delivered between weeks 34 to 36, I was sure that it would happen any day.  Well, we totally jumped the gun on this.

Fourteen hours after leaving VA, I finally made it to Madison and I was exhausted.  The next morning, Chris flew in to be there too.  Since this was our first time there when it was warm and we didn't have to walk through feet of snow, we walked all over town hitting up the zoo, the UWM campus, and a brew pub.  We tried to keep busy so we weren't just sitting around going crazy waiting for that phone call.

A little later that day, she texted us saying that her husband was taking her to the hospital at around 5 because she was having more pain and since she's never felt this way in her other pregnancies, she wanted to get things checked out.  Her blood pressure was a bit high for her (137/90) and she had a headache so they were concerned about preeclampsia.  After the lab results came back and spending about 7 hours in the hospital, they decided to send her home.  I felt really bad that she had to spend all that time there and I think all of us were hoping that they would go ahead and get the delivery process going but it just wasn't time yet.

After they sent her home, we decided it wasn't likely to happen anytime soon so we booked a flight home for Saturday morning.  On Friday, we made plans with our carrier and her husband to have dinner and see a comedy show.  I was kind of hoping that a good belly laugh or two would kick things into drive but with the two comics that were there that night, this was not likely to happen.  Oh well.

The next morning, we left my suv (fully loaded with all baby gear) at the long term parking so we could have it ready to go when we flew back in town.  Unfortunately when we got to the airport (after waking up at 5am), we found out that our flight to Chicago was canceled and the only way we could make it home was waiting until that afternoon and getting home around 10pm.  This wasn't going to work for us so we took a 3 hour bus ride to Chicago to make our 2pm flight home but when we got there at 11am, we found out that our flight was delayed 2 hours.  It was a pretty fitting end to our brief trip there; it wasn't a disaster, just annoying.

So now we wait to see how her 37 week appt goes on Thursday, May 29th.  I'm hoping that they decide to go ahead and induce but even if they don't, they won't let her go past week 38 (June 4th) so either way we're just days away.