Everything has been going so smoothly, that I was caught a little off guard when things didn't go as planned on Thursday 9/22. We had a scheduled ultrasound and fetal monitoring (nst) at 11:00 as we have twice a week at Good Sam. Craig was with me for the ultrasound and all of the babies looked great. They were very active and were each practicing their breathing movements as they like for them to. I sent Craig back to work after the ultrasound and stayed for the routine monitoring.
Baby A and B did great with perfectly beautiful hearbeats. Baby C was then monitored and was looking great until 16 minutes into the 20 minute test when the babies heartbeat dropped into the 75 range from 125. After a minute and a half, the heartbeat came back up, but I have to say it was a scary minute and a half! It's hard to say how many times in a day one of the babies roll on their cord and cause their heartbeat to drop... it's just not often that you witness it on the monitor!
Although the babies heartbeat looked good after this one deceleration, the doctor wanted to watch us a couple more hrs. Once in labor and delivery, the babies all looked great on the monitor, but I started contracting every 3-5 minutes. Of course, I also didn't get to go to the bathroom or drink for a couple of hrs. This bought us a few more hrs in the hospital and finally at 7:30 at night, the physician on call felt confident that I wasn't in labor and that the babies were all doing well. We finally got the okay to go home!
I've never been so glad to sleep in my own bed. It was a bit of a reality check that things really can change so quickly and you just can't plan on getting to go home after any of these appointments. An admission is just a deceleration in a babies heartbeat or a few contractions away.
This weekend has been very relaxing and the babies are all very active giving mommy reassurance that they are all okay. I'm definitely looking forward to seeing them on ultrasound tomorrow! Keep these little angels in your prayers... we are only 7 weeks away from delivery time!
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