Well, we've now had a chance to put our last-minute planning skills to the test! I dropped Alan off at the airport at 8:15 on Saturday morning (he was going to DC for a work conference), ran a couple of errands, and got home right around lunchtime. At 1pm, Alan called me to say that he'd gotten a call from our agency contact saying that Zarina had started having mild contractions and had been admitted to the hospital. She was started on anti-contraction meds and was being monitored closely. Since it was after 11pm Mumbai time at that point, the doctor was going to re-evaluate her in the morning - and if the contractions were getting stronger, she'd probably need to move forward with the delivery on Sunday.
As you can imagine, this call made us just a WEE bit stressed out - all made worse by the fact that a) we would need to wait all Saturday afternoon and early evening before we could know if the babies were going to be born the next day, and b) Alan was already in DC, so the logistics of preparing to leave for India within 24 hours were going to be that much more challenging. We decided that Alan shouldn't come home from DC until we were fairly confident that the delivery was actually going to happen.
I filled my afternoon doing a few of the last-minute chores on our "To Do Before India" list - installing the car seat bases in one of our cars, doing all of the laundry, and running to Target to pick up some more travel-size toiletries for the plane. This took all of two hours, so I also spent an unacceptable amount of time doing Google searches for "contractions 33.5 weeks twins" (bad idea, by the way). By 9pm our time (7:30am Sunday morning in Mumbai), we called the doctor on her cell phone to get an update - she let us know that the contractions had stopped overnight, but had apparently come back a little bit that morning. She was on her way to the hospital, and would call us once she'd seen Zarina.
At 10:30pm (9am Mumbai), we got the news we'd been hoping for - the contractions were under control, they were not getting worse, and there was no need for an immediate delivery! We checked in with the doctor again the next morning, and she said that the contractions had gone away completely, which was even better news. It has now been over 48 hours with no contractions - Zarina is still being monitored at the hospital, and will probably stay there until the delivery - but unless something changes, the doctor said that at this point we can still plan on our original delivery date of 12/7-12/8.
We are feeling VERY relieved and extremely lucky. The babies are doing fine - 34 weeks today - and we hope that they choose to stick around in their current digs for another 3.5 weeks or so :) We are still expecting another ultrasound to be done at the end of the week, so will definitely send along another update once that happens. In the meantime, please continue sending all of your good thoughts in the direction of India - we really appreciate it!
As you can imagine, this call made us just a WEE bit stressed out - all made worse by the fact that a) we would need to wait all Saturday afternoon and early evening before we could know if the babies were going to be born the next day, and b) Alan was already in DC, so the logistics of preparing to leave for India within 24 hours were going to be that much more challenging. We decided that Alan shouldn't come home from DC until we were fairly confident that the delivery was actually going to happen.
I filled my afternoon doing a few of the last-minute chores on our "To Do Before India" list - installing the car seat bases in one of our cars, doing all of the laundry, and running to Target to pick up some more travel-size toiletries for the plane. This took all of two hours, so I also spent an unacceptable amount of time doing Google searches for "contractions 33.5 weeks twins" (bad idea, by the way). By 9pm our time (7:30am Sunday morning in Mumbai), we called the doctor on her cell phone to get an update - she let us know that the contractions had stopped overnight, but had apparently come back a little bit that morning. She was on her way to the hospital, and would call us once she'd seen Zarina.
At 10:30pm (9am Mumbai), we got the news we'd been hoping for - the contractions were under control, they were not getting worse, and there was no need for an immediate delivery! We checked in with the doctor again the next morning, and she said that the contractions had gone away completely, which was even better news. It has now been over 48 hours with no contractions - Zarina is still being monitored at the hospital, and will probably stay there until the delivery - but unless something changes, the doctor said that at this point we can still plan on our original delivery date of 12/7-12/8.
We are feeling VERY relieved and extremely lucky. The babies are doing fine - 34 weeks today - and we hope that they choose to stick around in their current digs for another 3.5 weeks or so :) We are still expecting another ultrasound to be done at the end of the week, so will definitely send along another update once that happens. In the meantime, please continue sending all of your good thoughts in the direction of India - we really appreciate it!
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