25w - It was about time.

On happy news!  Nate gave me my 10th injection, finishing off our 2nd vile of Makena.  Marking our half-way point.

I knew that something has been up for a few days now.  I've been getting many more contractions, overall irritability, and something just wasn't so right down below.  I called base to see if I could get in to see an OB and as I should have expected, they didn't have any openings until sometime next week.  The scheduler said she could get me in with my PCM the next morning though, so I jumped at the opportunity.

We dropped daddy off at work at 0700.  Gave a urine sample at 0720.  Waited at the Starbucks cafe in the hospital while we all had a cheese danish and cookies.  0750 we checked in to family practice.  They got us in fairly quick.  My sample came back clean, so no UTI.  Doc threw a towel at me, left the room, and away we went for a sample and exam.  0820 we left with my sample to bring to the lab and commence our next wait.  0920 back to family practice we went to discuss the results.  They pulled us back and she announced that I have a BV infection.  Bleh.  I get them fairly easy in pregnancy, so I wasn't surprised by the results, but am just surprised that it took this long to finally get one.  After calling upstairs to OB, OB again, MFM, OB, and finally MFM, we were able to determine that it was safe for me to use Metrogel instead of oral Flagyl since it makes me so sick.  She sent my rx down to the pharmacy where we had to wait another 30 minutes.  On the plus side, my Makena had arrived a day early so we could pick it up as well.  We finally made it out of the hospital at 1030, ran quickly to McDs for my hungry kiddos, and then onto speech therapy.  We got home at 1230 and everyone crashed until it was 1500 and time to pick up daddy.

On the sadder news.  It seems that the infection has really taken a toll on my body.  Upon examination, non-u/s (so it could not be as bad), my cervix is down to finger width and soft.  I am also dilated to 1cm through.  We're hoping that after this 5 day round of antibiotics my cervix might start behaving again.  I'm sure hoping.  My next appt isn't for another 3w.