Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Got plans for next Friday?

And next week we'll be mommies.

Or so our doctors seem to think. We went to our specialist yesterday and at the end of the appointment he told us that his gut feeling was that the babies would not be coming earlier than the scheduled c-section next Friday. We'll see if he's right.

The appointment was to check fetal movement/stress test and the babies' amniotic fluid levels. They hooked up a heart monitor to J for each of the babies and one for uterine movement. It took a while to find the heartbeats as the girls are still at this point flip flopping around in there.

But, they finally found them.



We were told that they'd need to record the babies heart rates for about 20 minutes so we sat in the room watching a rerun of Desp.erate House.wives. The girls have always been so "good" at our dr appts - always were in great positions to measure all the parts of their bodies that the specialist usually measures, so of course this time the girls would misbehave. They kept wiggling around causing the monitors to lose the heart readings which in turn would cause the machine to beep loudly. We think we actually heard giggling from inside J's belly ;) Luckily after about 20 minutes there was enough movement recorded to call it a day. There was virtually NO uterine movement recorded during this time. Sigh. Next we had an ultrasound to check the amniotic fluid levels. We weren't sure why we didn't have the ultrasound first because when the nurse was attaching the heart monitors, she was going off of last week's ultrasound images and they had both completely moved since then. Would have made for less guessing as to where to find the strong heartbeats. Oh well. The fluid levels were both great and 2 hours later, we were leaving the specialist.

Today we had an appt with our ob. We hadn't actually seen her in what seems like a month or so as she was on vacation the last week and a half and before then she had called in sick the day of our appointment. The first thing she said to us was, I can't believe the babies are still in there!! J's uterus is measuring 43 weeks - which is a little over 6 weeks from where we actually are! That's one large belly ;) We got our usual ultrasound to check for strong heartbeats and a cervix check. We aren't sure why we have to see the specialist AND our ob each week now, but hey, it's all over next week right? We never thought we'd say this but we are getting SICK of going to dr appts! We just want our little pumpkins with us already! ;)

After a quick blood test to check J's thyroid levels, we headed home. Tomorrow will be 9 days until we meet the little ones. Single digits! OH YEAH!

But before we celebrate the arrival of our girls, we get to celebrate M's birthday on Thursday! 2 more days! YAY!

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

whoa, thats a crazy belly pic! glad to hear everything looks good - those girls are healthy superstar twins! im excited ya'll are so close!! :D

Mommy and Mamita said...

It pains me just to think how large J's belly must be at this point. Wow, you are so close now. So wild that all 4 of your birthdays will be so close together.

BTW, they do the ultrasound after the non-stress test because if you fail the non-stress test there is additional assessment that needs to be done via ultrasound that may not be part of your normal scan.

Pero-Luter said...

Congratulations!!! It will be here before you know it.

Laurie said...

Wow, sounds like that was quite the appointment! I'm so happy that everything is going well in there. I can't believe they will be here in less than 10 days!!

Heather's birthday is Thursday also! What a splendid day for birthdays!

Strawberry said...

SO exciting! Happy birthday to M and I cannot wait to see pictures of those giggly little girls! Best of luck to you both!

Anonymous said...

WOOOHOOOOOO!!!