Breast feeding and contractions

After little sleep on Friday night we managed to get ourselves to the scheduled breastfeeding class on Saturday morning.  The class was very informative and helpful to ease some of my questions.  But again, all through the class I had contractions 5 minutes apart.  On the break the nurse providing the class actually told us to go get a huge glass of water to stay hydrated and to call our OB if things continued.  Needless to say, we called the on-call line after the class and fortunately, our regular OB was on call and at the hospital just upstairs from where we were!  He told us to come up to triage and that he would take a look.  After being hooked up to several monitors we found out that indeed I was having contractions every five minutes!  And after the OB exam we learned that I was still one fingertip dilated, the baby was at the -1 station (dropped some), and that I was now 70-80% effaced!  After much contemplation, our OB decided to give me a shot of terbutaline to stop the contractions.  Immediately, the contractions stopped.  Our OB sent us home telling us that there is a good possibility that I will not go full term and not to be surprised if the contractions return.  So, Dan and I canceled a party that we were supposed to have that night and instead got ourselves more ready (if possible) to have a baby in the near future!  We’ve finished the baby’s room, bought a little girl and little boy outfit, and packed our bags!  Who knows when the big day will be!?