How was your night?

Okay at best.  Ginger was taken off the nifedipine (which obviously didn't stop her contractions; she was on it at 10:00 this morning when it all started) and was put instead on magnesium sulfate in an IV push.  Ideally, magnesium sulfate was supposed to slow the contractions (I suppose we'll never know whether it did) but it is also supposed to have some side effects (it did).  For one thing, you can't get out of bed when you're on it because it is a strong muscle relaxant.  For another, it can cause the build up of fluids in the body.  And boy, did it.  Ginger's lungs filled up with fluid and she began having even more copious nosebleeds.

Coughing and contracting, bleeding and contracting.  That pretty much sums up the night.  You?