Day 16 - We made it to Week 29!!
Mar 28, 2015 22:38:25 GMT -5
Post by santoki77 on Mar 28, 2015 22:38:25 GMT -5
We made it!! We're at week 29!! One more week and I'll be a little more ready for Elliott to come into this world. Of course, week 32 or 34 would be better but I can breathe a small sigh of relief once we hit 30.
NSTs #1 and #2 went pretty uneventfully. I've asked the nurses to turn down the volume of his HB so I can hear it but not fixate on it. Also, having the monitor turned away seems to help. I pretty much know what his HB sounds like and I can recognize when his HB drops a little..but not the end of the world so long as his HB goes back up to baseline.
The joy of today was during NST #2, his hiccups made the fetal HB sensors bounce/jump on my tummy. i was going to try to record it but by the time I realized what was going on, he had stopped. Apparently hiccups are a good sign as well as it means he's "drinking" the amniotic fluid (AF) and working his diaphragm to help develop his lungs.
NST#3 was almost perfect..for about 17min until Elliott's HB dropped a few times...his HB went back up but whenever there is enough of a drop or deceleration, the time basically resets and I have to be on the monitors for a longer time. The minimum NST time is 20 minutes. The shortest I've been on the monitors is 25 minutes and the most recent scare was the longest I was on the monitors, other than when I was first admitted, was about 14 hours. Tonight was about an hour. Not too bad considering I was on the monitors for over an hour when I first arrived. On average, the times have shortened except for a few exceptions (last week there was a 3+ hour session). The average now seems to be 30-40 minutes.
DH is spending the night. He brought the PS3 which we were able to hook up to the TV in my room. He also brought Diablo 3 ROS and Skyrim, along with some movies to watch (Big Hero Six and The Hunger Games/MockingJay part 1). Tonight was nice, watching movies with my DH and just chilling together. Almost makes me forget that I'm in the hospital. He picked up dinner from a local Korean restaurant and the flowers he brought yesterday look beautiful.
Day 16 will be over in less 30 minutes and we survived. 6 more days until 30 weeks! keeping our fingers and toes crossed
NSTs #1 and #2 went pretty uneventfully. I've asked the nurses to turn down the volume of his HB so I can hear it but not fixate on it. Also, having the monitor turned away seems to help. I pretty much know what his HB sounds like and I can recognize when his HB drops a little..but not the end of the world so long as his HB goes back up to baseline.
The joy of today was during NST #2, his hiccups made the fetal HB sensors bounce/jump on my tummy. i was going to try to record it but by the time I realized what was going on, he had stopped. Apparently hiccups are a good sign as well as it means he's "drinking" the amniotic fluid (AF) and working his diaphragm to help develop his lungs.
NST#3 was almost perfect..for about 17min until Elliott's HB dropped a few times...his HB went back up but whenever there is enough of a drop or deceleration, the time basically resets and I have to be on the monitors for a longer time. The minimum NST time is 20 minutes. The shortest I've been on the monitors is 25 minutes and the most recent scare was the longest I was on the monitors, other than when I was first admitted, was about 14 hours. Tonight was about an hour. Not too bad considering I was on the monitors for over an hour when I first arrived. On average, the times have shortened except for a few exceptions (last week there was a 3+ hour session). The average now seems to be 30-40 minutes.
DH is spending the night. He brought the PS3 which we were able to hook up to the TV in my room. He also brought Diablo 3 ROS and Skyrim, along with some movies to watch (Big Hero Six and The Hunger Games/MockingJay part 1). Tonight was nice, watching movies with my DH and just chilling together. Almost makes me forget that I'm in the hospital. He picked up dinner from a local Korean restaurant and the flowers he brought yesterday look beautiful.
Day 16 will be over in less 30 minutes and we survived. 6 more days until 30 weeks! keeping our fingers and toes crossed
