Rapid Fetal Fibronectin =/

So i went to the hosspital this morning thinking my water was leaking a little and turns out that i have a bladder infection and im dehydrated but the baby is fine. They gave me this test that is supposed to predict preterm labor within 2 weeks. Well.... mine came back positive. Has any one else had this test and did you really go into preterm labor?? I mean i kno theres a good chance my baby will survive with the right medical attention. But he needs to stay in as long as he can to be at the healthiest he can be. Any advice would be great.

Oh ill be 27 weeks on sunday. SO im almost 7 months along.

Quoting LizaBaby:“ So i went to the hosspital this morning thinking my water was leaking a little and turns out that i have ... [snip!] ... to be at the healthiest he can be. Any advice would be great. Oh ill be 27 weeks on sunday. SO im almost 7 months along.”

So what did they tell you to do?

what kind of test was it?
I was in the hospital yesterday for contractions and they did an exam and took some swabs and samples from my cervix, but they didn;t tell me why. So I don;t know if they were tsting me for preterm labor as well.

i had that done but mine came back negative. the nurse told me that its not 100% that you'll go into labor within 2 weeks if it came back positive

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Fetal fibronectin "leaks" into the vagina if a preterm delivery is likely to occur and can be measured in a diagnostic test.[1]
It is an excellent biological marker of premature (preterm) delivery; a delivery before 37 weeks of gestation.
When the fFN test is considered positive, delivery is likely to occur soon. When the fFN test is negative, it means that there is little if any danger of preterm labour for 7-10 days. The test is easily performed. A specimen is collected from the patient using a vaginal swab. The swab is placed in a transport tube and sent to the lab for testing. The lab can easily produce a test result in less than one hour.
A systematic review of the medical literature found that fetal fibronectin is a good predictor of spontaneous preterm birth before cervical dilation.[2] The test may be run on patients between 22 and 35 weeks gestation.
A negative fetal fibronectin test gives a more than 95% likelihood of remaining undelivered for the next 2 weeks. On the other hand, a positive fetal fibronectin test only only means a higher risk of preterm delivery (61% of delivery before 34 weeks)[3]. So, the fetal fibronectin test can't tell you for sure that you are in labor, but it can tell you that you're not."


from wiki


I didn;t get any test results back or anything, so I am guessing my midwife swabbed me for something else.

I had this test done at 29 weeks and it came back negative. I still went into labor. So I know that it is not always right.