Monday, December 29, 2008

Update

We kept a secret but didn't want anyone to worry over Christmas.

We were admitted to the hospital this morning Dec. 29th for some testing. Paige is a little too quite for her own good, my Dr. was a little worried when I stated again that she wasn't a big mover and he got a little more worried when I told him that Patrick has never felt her move, kick or do anything, so that put up a red flag for him and he wanted an indepth look at her and he wanted to make sure she wasn't stressed or having any problems that was causing issues for her that would make her stop moving. At 9:00am we entered Labor and Delivery at McKenna Hospital (Patrick looked at this as a practice session for the real thing) and were put in a delivery room and hooked up to the fetal monitor and the contraction monitor just to watch her for awhile. They call this test a non-stress test (or stress test - depending on who you talk too)and they just look at her hearbeat in regards to her movement and make sure it doesn't drop to below were it should be, which would show a problem. So they watched her on the monitor for an hour got a read out and after being examined by the Dr. and nurses we were told she passed with flying colors and that her position is probably the reason for her lack of movement. She is stuck and doesn't have lots of room to move, who's fault is that little "taco" baby. Patrick enjoyed watching the monitor he said that it was similar to watching his engines at work, so he was used to seeing lines and graphs and was trying to determine what everything meant, not sure they are in anyway similar but it kept him busy!

We go back to my Dr. on Monday, January 5th and from here on out we will see him once a week until she decides to make her arrival. We are officially at 35 weeks and at 37 weeks if she is still being "taco" child we will be put back in the hospital and my Dr. will turn her into the head down position and if I don't go into labor he will send us home. At 38 weeks if she decides to be stubborn and turn back around my Dr. will put me back into the hospital turn her and then induce labor so that hopefully she doesn't decide to go back to the breach position. Stubborn little German baby has to be difficult with everything, I hope this isn't a peak into how she will be as a child. If it is we are in trouble!!!

1 comment:

Debie said...

YEAH!!! Glad to hear everything went well, I was going to call to check in but glad I checked the blog first!