33 WEEKS AND 4 DAYS

On Wednesday November 26th, Kaden decided to show another dip on the monitor at around 4:30 am, so that meant back to L&D for monitoring. Both boys actually showed another dip the day before around 2pm. I had gotten up to go to the bathroom and while I was hooking my monitors back up I noticed the low heartrates. So I got the nurse and from that point on, I can't get out of the bed. Not even to go to the bathroom. How fun is that??? Since this is my third time to be taken down to L&D, my doc decided to just leave me down here until I deliver. Also on Wednesday, Dr. Gonzaloz, the high risk doctor, came to do an U/S on the babies to check my amniotic fluid level. My levels were a little low, but that was normal for twins. He also had a fun time looking at the boys. At one point, he went Oh My Goodness....this boy has a lot of hair. So I guess we will have to see how true that is. After meeting with Dr. Gonzaloz and then him consulting with my doc, they decided that since I will be 34 weeks on Sunday, they are going to stop all my meds that are keeping me from going into labor on Monday. After you reach 34 weeks there is really no reason to stop labor. So Monday we will just see what happens. Hopefully we will have two sons by the first of next week.

AN INTERESTING DAY ALREADY

I was back in L&D this morning around 5am. The reason behind this was Kaden (Baby B) showed a dip on the heartrate monitor. His heartrate dropped down to 60 for about 4 minutes, but this was more than likely due to a way that I moved or something. But his heartrate came back up and neither baby has shown in many problems, but due to procedures I was given some oxygen and fluids and sent down to L&D for monitoring. By 11am my doc called and said that it was okay to go back to the Perinatal Floor to my room (#251). I am now to stay hooked up to the monitors constantly. These little boys are just loving giving their mommy trouble before they even get here. But they are keeping me and their daddy on our toes and I'm sure from now on that's how it will always be (HA!), but we are going to enjoy and cherish every minute of it.

33 WEEKS and 1 DAY ULTRASOUND

I got my Ultrasound and..................Quinn (Baby A) weighs 4 pounds and 5 ounces and Kaden (Baby B) weighs 4 pounds and 8 ounces. If I make it another week we just might have five pound babies. And it confirmed again that they are both definitely boys. They were showing it off pretty bad....it was so funny!!!! My fluid levels measured good and the overall U/S looked good. So if they do another U/S it will probably be in about two weeks, that is if I'm still here. That's all for now!!!

THE BEGINNING OF WEEK 34

I'm back on the perinatal floor. My doc came around this morning and said everything looked stable and that I could go back upstairs, so I am now in room 251. She also ordered me an U/S today so we can check the growth of the babies. And for right now the babies are on the monitors 24/7. This morning about five minutes before my nurse came in to get my tape that shows all my contractions and the babies heart rates, Kaden showed a little dip after one of my contractions, but his heart rate went right back up. They felt like the dip happened maybe because I had just gotten up to go to the bathroom, but we are watching them just to make sure. As soon as I have their weight and growth information, I will post again.

33 WEEKS

Well I've made it to 33 weeks. YAY!! Yesterday was a really bad day. At about 11:30 am the nurse came into check my blood pressure and it was high. She waited a little while and checked it again and it was still high and it kept getting higher. I had several runs of having high blood pressure so they wheeled me down to labor and delivery to get hooked back up on the magnesium and to have some blood work done to see if I was headed in the direction of having Preclampsia. At this point we were under the impression that we might have babies in about one hour if my blood pressure didn't calm donw. As soon as I got down to L&D and was hooked up to the Mag, my blood pressure starting going down. My blood work came back fine. Then I had a bad spell of contractions that were pretty bad. I finally got some pain medicine and everything settled down for the night. This morning they took me off the Mag and started me back on the Procardia (a pill). Everything seems to be stable right now. So maybe I'll get through another week. I'm still in LDR #2, but hopefully will get moved back to another room on the Perinatal floor either tonight or tomorrow.

32 Weeks and 4 Days

Well my doc came by this morning with the results of the Fetal Fibornectin test. And the test came back positive which means I am highly likely to deliver early which we all pretty much knew that, but with a positive result that means that both docs want me to stay in the hospital. So the plan for now is that I will be in the hospital until Monday the 24th and then we will reevaluate everything on Monday. I will be getting another U/S on the babies to reevaluate the babies weight. Another factor that played a big part in whether to go home or not was the fact that I don't really go 24 hours without having a flare up with these contractions so therefore if Iwas at home I would be calling the doc everyday about something therefore it is better for me to just stay in the hospital and be monitored here, plus I'm doing nothing but resting and eating which is what me and the babies need most right now. Oh and I've got a poster up in my room that has a calendar on it and everybody is predicting when they think the babies will get here. They calendar goes from now until Christmas Day. So if you want your name on the calendar just send me your date. There will be a prize, but we don't know what yet. Unless the babies come this weekend, I'll post on Monday after my visit with the doc and hopefully my U/S.

32 Weeks and 3 Days

I've made it another week!! YAY!!! I am still in the hospital though, but might be going home tomorrow. My doc did a test called Fetal Fibronectin on me last night. We should have the results tonight. But this test is suppose to show how likely I am to deliver these boys early. This test will give my doc a better idea of what I need to do as far as staying in the hospitall goes. Right now I am still contracting, but we have deteremined that I'm always going to contract. My contractions right now are not making my cervix change which is a good thing. If I go home I will continue to take medicine for the contractions. I am currently taking Procardia and Terbutaline as needed for the contractions. As long as the contractions are not getting more intense then I am fine. It has been a long week, but at least if something was going to happen last weekend we have prevented it and these boys are getting more days inside so they will be stronger when they come out. Plus the boys got the steroid shot for their lungs just in case they did come early. So everything is looking much better and we are hoping to go at least two more weeks. As soon as I here from the test results, I will get a post up. Sorry, it has taken me so long to post, but it has been a crazy week.