Sleepless in Labor and Delivery

hey all, well if you read the last blog, and then you read what I am about to tell you, then you might begin to think I am some kind of doctor, because everything I said would happen did. About 3 o'clock, they came in and gave Monica three shots of a drug called Tribudaline in the course of an hour at 20 minute intervals, not very fun. All of this while her body was trying to come off the magnesium sulfate stuff. She was and still is having a good bit of chest pain, and it is a little difficult to breath, but it is a little better than say an hour or so ago.
What we are going to try and do today is put Monica and a Tribudaline pump. Basically they take an insulin pump that diabetics would use and instead of insulin, they put the Tri in there and it constantly feeds the body the drug, which should, and again I should, hold off the contractions. Some people take very well to this and everything gets better for a couple of weeks, others however it doesnt really help it all. IF you are asking my opinion on this, well I think we will still have babies on Saturday, if that is any indication of what I think this stuff will do. The drugs are really beginning to affect Monica, and so is lying in the same position for four days without real food, and for Monica, who is a pretty healthy person, this is really tough for her.
We will see our specialist soon, and will have more information from him as well as to what kind of time line we are looking at. IT was funny this morning because when we talked to one of the regular doctors, she said that we would try to get to 34 weeks, yes we all know this is the best, but whether we are pessimistic, or just plain arrogant, we kind of laughed. Something I did not note yesterday when we talked to the NICU people was that it is actually good that Monica has been laboring for so long now. She said that babies will know when the body is trying to get rid of them and their little vital functions will start kicking in and working the way they are supposed when they come out. Basically they know that they have to step up to the plate, to which I responded, "Thats my boys". Talk to you all soon.