Sonogram results

It's been a bit of a roller coaster since Tuesday. Dr. Broth scanned me Tues and said that despite aggressive iv fluids, the amniotic fluid levels weren't improving. The good news was that they didn't seem to be much worse though. Yesterday I saw Dr. Hodor (they are all in the same practice). He didn't do a scan, we just talked about how I was feeling, etc. He thought that if the fluid levels were the same or worse today, Dr. Kramer would schedule the C-section for later today. Dr. Kramer was due to come by around 6-7 am today but at 1 am I had a knock on my door and it was him. He was called in for an emergency and said he would likely be in surgery until early morning so he wanted to scan me before he headed in. So, at 1 am we had a look at the girly. At first glance we saw a decent fluid pocket but that was the only one. He thought it might be around 5 cm. The blood flow in the baby's cord and brain was good. Oh yeah - around 6 pm yesterday the nurse came bombing into my room and told me to lay on my left side (never a good sign). She pulled up the baby's info on my room computer. You could see the area prior to her coming in the heart rate was going up and down in this perfect rhythm. She called it sinus I think. Anyway, they thought the cord was being cut off. Fortunately, once I was on my side that did the trick and the heart rate normalized. Anyway, back to the scan....once he woke the baby up and saw her move (and kick me!) the pocket was reduced. Overall, he is estimating that the actual level is somewhere between 3-6 cm. That basically means that nothing has changed. At that point I fully expected him to say we were going to get her out ASAP. To my surprise, he said he wanted to wait and re-assess again on Monday morning. I was disappointed because I spent all day preparing myself for the fact that she would be coming soon. In the end, it's much better for her to stay put for a while longer. I'm 35 weeks so there's a chance she would need special care in the NICU. The more I thought about it, I think part of the reason he's trying to stretch this out is to spare us the whole NICU thing again and give us the healthiest baby possible. I'm on continuous monitoring so she's safe. I just have to try and not claw at the walls from boredom. I'm actually working from here using my work computer. At least I don't have to take sick time or go on disability AND it gives me something to pass the time.

So, the plan for now is to hang in there til Monday. James said he'll sleep over and we'll have fun this weekend. I think he's going to bring board games, cards and movies. He's been great through this. He's taking a class in Baltimore this week so he drives there from Frederick in the AM, after class he drives an hour back home then turns around and drives 45 min to Rockville to be with me in the hospital until I fall asleep. On top of that they just started doing night time construction after 9pm so it takes him 1.5 - 2 hrs to get back to Frederick at night. Poor guy!

Jack is doing great through all this. He's with my parents in CT and having a ball. Yesterday he finished the last of his chocolate covered mini donuts. My mom had the empty carton in the recycling bin of their pantry. He spotted it and ran over saying "Mmmmm Mmmmm!". He then brought the box into the family room and threw it at my dad and said "Mmmmm" again. What a crazy guy!

~Vic