Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Two Weeks!?



I'm 35 weeks and 3 days today. I had an ultrasound at 8am. Usually this ultrasound technician is fast at what he does, and I'min and out in 30 minutes. He's really good. But today and just over an hour. After he found their weights, girl 6lbs 4 oz, and boy 4lbs 4oz,he decided to do a cord doppler. This was used to measure the blood flow from the placenta into the cord, the flow in the middle of the cord, from the cord into thebaby, and the mid cranial artery. The girl's vitals looked alright, but we couldn't see anything for the boy. He was just in an awkward position.
Since boy has been slowly falling behind in weight (he's still gaining, just not as quickly) that's when my doctor decided to schedule a c-section. She wants to make sure that he isn't being put in a compromising situationin case he isn't getting adequate blood flow.
She said that she had to talk to a perinatologist and tell them her plan for me and her reasons why, but that regardless of what they say, this is her plan. Non stress test this Friday, next Tuesday ultrasound to do another cord doppler, non stress test and follow up appointment, next Friday non stress test, and then...that next Tuesday delivery!

2 comments:

  1. How are you feeling about the countdown? Pretty exiting!

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  2. I'm excited and super scared. There's still a lot of little things that we need to get, namely diapers :-)
    Oh man oh man oh man, that about sums up my current thoughts

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