Big 2 days. Learned all kinds of stuff.
1) Baby B has an obscene amount of hair. It is showing up in the ultrasound. Thick and long and floating around in the fluid like your hair in the pool.
2) Baby A is so low that we can’t see anything above the tip of his nose. The doctor can feel his head and could see it if he looked but wasn’t going to take a peak just to satisfy my curiosity. He said I would find out soon enough
3) At this point perinatal has a plus or minus of 1 lb.
4) Baby B is 5 pounds 6 oz. Up from 4 lb 4 ounces
5) Baby A is 4 pounds 8 oz. Up from 3 lbs 14 ounces. However without an accurate measurement of his head we could be off by as much as a pound.
6) If the measurements are more than 20% apart they take the babies. The babies are 16% and we are assuming baby A’s is not right because he is so far down.
7) I am 2 centimeters dilated and 50% effaced (I think that is what he said) anyway, thinned out.
8) I could walk around another month like this.
9) If I go into labor they will not stop it. At this point if my body wants them out, they are better off out, than in, due to infection.
10) If they came today they would go to NICU
11) If they came today by age 2 (if not sooner) you would never know they had been preemies
12) Every day past today that I go, knocks 2 days off of NICU stay.
13) The doctor really thinks I will go at least 2 more weeks. At least.
14) At 36 weeks the babies are considered full term. They may still need NICU because sometimes they forget to breath. I forget a lot of things, my keys, birthdays, here lately, my wallet a lot, but breathing I am usually on top of.
15) The nurses think at 35 weeks they would only need a triage stay in NICU and could probably go to the regular nursery. The doctor said he wasn’t as certain. A lot depends on eating and blood sugar and remembering to breath.
16) I measure 46 weeks.
17) Everyone is head down and ready to launch. A can’t move and B is wedged tight enough he probably can’t either. We should be able to have a normal delivery. If I do I will be in the elite group of women who can do this as it happens less than 4% of the time
18) The doctor said that I am in fantastic shape for twins. Most mothers at this point, including his wife, were not in this good of shape.
19) Baby B may look like Thor in the face but in picture 5 he looks like the Green Goblin from Spiderman
20) Next appointment and NST next week next weigh and measure on the 23rd. Place your bets now.
From: Jennifer J. Baier [mailto:jjbaier01@aol.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 10:07 PM
To: 'Lauren Holst'; 'Evelyn Holst'; 'carolasorenson@mchsi.com'; 'Barb Baier'; 'Julie Woodson'; 'darlarenee@windstream.net'
Subject: Baby update week 33
I am measuring 44 weeks. I think I would be measuring larger but the babies are all packed in tight now. Baby A is head down and wedged in the exit doctor said next time he moves it will be to exit the building. Baby B is right beside him forehead to chin. He too is head down. He could roll back over but it is going to be hard as he is the bigger of the 2 and running out of room. I have started to dilate but not much. As Dave pointed out though I wasn’t this dilated when my water broke with Thor. The doctor’s feel comfortable that I will go at least 1 more week and could easily go 2-3 more. We will watch it closely. Both boys have heart rates in the mid 140’s which is perfect.
Next week we have a weigh and measure on Wednesday, a non stress test on Thursday and then an appointment with the doctor. After next Thursday, if the contractions start again they won’t stop them and between next Thursday and the 25th we are looking at a one to one ratio for days in NICU at worse. Ideally, after the 25th we shouldn’t see any time in NICU.
We will keep following doctor’s orders and keep praying for more days. At this point, every moment counts.
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