They weren't waiting for the baby to be born. They were hoping like heck that the baby WOULDN'T be born. They were trying to stop labor. I was in pre term labor for (almost) 17 weeks. I was in the hospital for 53 fun filled days as they struggled to KEEP me pregnant. Now, of course, I had family visitors during the time, but no one was "waiting" for my twins to be born. They were hoping, as I was, that the efforts to stall the progression of my labor would work, and thank goodness it did. My twins were born at 36 weeks into my pregnancy, which is considered nearly full term for twins. Not bad work. And, they used the precise drug Kate and Toby talked about, terbutaline. Which, if I have a bone to pick, would be that it is NO LONGER ALLOWED to be used to stop labor because of the high incidence of issues which have arisen in babies born to mothers on terbutaline. It was always an "off label" use, but is now banned. So, that part is not correct. Impossible unless a doctor was willing to risk a malpractice suit. Seems unlikely. In any event, more than any of you wanted to know I'm sure. LOL