So yesterday ...

So Yesterday I went for my first fetal stress test & my 30th weekly sonogram. The stress test is really nonstressful. You sit in a recliner. They strap you to a fetal heartrate monitor and a contraction monitor, bring you a glass of juice and ask you to push a button everytime you feel the baby move. Simple enough. If the baby is active it can take as little as 20 minutes. Basically they are just looking to see if the baby has any heart rate anomolies or any issues related to movement. They are also looking to make sure that I am not having regular contractions. So I sit, drink, and push the button for about 1/2 an hour. Baby looks great. Heart rate good and steady. I do great, only 1 contraction which at this point is normal as the old uterus starts practicing. Lucky for me ... it won't need this practice because c-section makes perfect :) Blood pressure is 116/65. Looks great.

Well, each week from here on out after the stressfree stress test I go back to the sonogram room for a scan. Supposed to be brief to measure amniotic fluid & just peek at the baby. Dr. Poggi comes in and looks around. Amniotic fluid is good, lungs are good, but there is seemingly MORE abdominal swelling/fluid than before. Its all getting really subjective now asa the baby's rate of growth increases, so is it more relative to the baby's growth, who knows. But it looks like more. She says she'd feel better if Ghidini looked at it. Ok, fine by me as I love him and I'd feel better that way too.

Still, my heart races a bit because the last time someone looked at a sonogram and left the room to get someone else the word "catastrophic" came up shortly there after. Anyway, in comes Ghidini with his sunny disposition. He takes a look & is honest, says he can't really explain it. Further accumulation would be contrary to his expectations and all literature and that it is definitely not negatively impacting anything. Ok, so why is it there? No idea. Great. SO frustrating.

They say they will, of course, meet with the neonatologists and offer them a complete history of this pregnancy, they will be there at delivery, that he expects at best they'll do little other than an ultrasound of the baby at birth & send him home w/ me at 3 days with close follow-up. At worst, they will want to drain the fluid and still possibly send him home at 3 days. I think they really don't know until he is here. Which brings me to this ...

7 weeks and 4 days! I think I can I think I can I think I can.