It's always nice to be able to go in and see how things are going on the inside. The ultrasound was short but long. As she was checking things out, going through the list of things that they are watching. The lady doing the ultrasound found that my membranes that were a little pulled away last week are more pulled away this week. So she had the Doctor come in without her looking at the normal stuff. When the Doctor came in he was very informative. He shared with us all the things that could happen because of the membrane pulling away. I could see leakage of fluid or bleeding. If that happens I will have to be closely watched to make sure that no infection happens. Which means hospital bed rest. ;-( The second thing is the membranes that has pulled away might wrap around the umbillacord. Which would cut off the nutrition to the baby. So we are to watch for leaking and now get to go in twice a week for non-stress tests. And if we have any of these things come up our new goal day moves to 34 weeks. :-( I wasn't very happy.
We headed out to the waiting room for the next appointment. While waiting a lady came up to me and asked me if I was Joann. I said yes. It was Hailey from the Utah Spina Bifida facebook group. She said that she had to look at our pictures on facebook real fast to make sure it was us before she came over. But I'm so glad she did. She ended up not having the fetal surgery. This is her first child and it really limits you on having future babies, if you do have fetal surgery. She only has two more weeks and then they have their c-section scheduled. When you don't have fetal surgery you still need to have a c-section because they don't want the baby's back to go threw the birth canal. It would cause more damage to the baby's spinal cord. It was great to see her in person. It will be fun to have our boys grow up together.
The non-stress test was going well, then at the 20 minute mark, when you are pretty much finished, the baby's heart beat fell to 90 beats a minute. So we had to be monitored for longer. It didn't happen again. So after a half hour we where able to go. After our appointment we where able to go and visit my neighbor that had her baby about 2 weeks ago, at the same hospital. He has been in the NICU and has been making good progress the last couple of days. It was so fun to see him. He was so tiny. The pictures that she has posted of him are so cute, but in person he is sooooo cute! He has tiny little chubby cheeks. It was so nice to visit with them and it was so nice of them to share their cute little guy for a little bit.
After we got home, we ate and I took a nap. I was more down then I have been in a long time. I just hate the idea of not making it to 36 weeks. I want everything to go as good as possible. I know bed rest is hard but hospital bed rest would be harder and having the baby early would be even harder. The one thing that I have noticed, is that in the last week I have share with two different people some of my quotes that are on my mirror. Now I guess it's a good time to share them with myself.
"Somethings I can not predict or control, but I can become what I need to be." Cecil Samuelson.
"Trust that what the Lord has planned for us is so much better than what we have planned".
These thoughts really helped me get through the hard times when Mark was sick. They are as true as ever now.
Dinner was brought in, it was so yummy! Everyone spoils us! We watched the Olympics to finish off the night.
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