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Room 302:

After several moments of examining Rose, Dr. Pierce removes his fingers and covers her back up after removing his gloves. "All done. You did great, Rose. So the bad news is that it seems that you are in early labor because aside from the contractions, you are currently dilated to 2.5 cms and are starting to efface. At this point it is not possible to stop the labor. So what I would like to do is start you on steroid injections that will help stimulate the lung development of the girls. At this point I don't want to do anything to stimulate labor as the longer we can give the steroids to work the better to help the girls be as strong as possible once they are born so I will hold off on any interventions for the time being unless things change as we continue on. Normally I would let a patient get up and move around during this stage of labor but due to the fact that the girls are preterm I would prefer you remain in bed and on the monitors so we can keep a continual eye on them. I know this is a lot to take in, do you have any questions?"