Week 29!!!! Yea! I can't believe I've been here 20 days and I've only been out of the room 6 times for sonograms. I still have not been outside so I hope everyone is enjoying the cool weather for me. I really have no clue where the time goes. I had the opportunity to work on a Keep Junction Beautiful grant for the city and the Veterans Day video for the school so those things kept my mind busy. I really enjoy working on the grants, and the Veterans Day video gets me emotional every year and I don't even know all the men in the video. It's amazing! I've been adding to the Veterans Day video since 2006 and this year I added over 100 pictures (many from an old Junction yearbook). I need some more Vietnam pictures, so if you know a Vietnam Veteran please have them email me their picture for the video next year.
Babies are doing great. Their heartbeats are wonderful and the nurses say their accelerations in their heartrate show great brain development. Their baseline heartrate is 140-150s and when they accel their heartrate is up in the 170-180s. They describe it as when you get up to walk across the room your heartrate will increase or when you excercise your heartrate increases; this is very similar but for 30 second increments. There dopplers are also great! The doppler is their blood pressure out of the umbilical cord. As many of you know their umbilical cords are in knots so they have to watch to make sure their cords are pumping blood appropriately. The cords come out of their belly buttons, are jumbled like a bowl of spaghetti and then they go into the placenta. I can't wait to see a picture of the craziness when they are born. It is truly a miracle that they can live like that.
Late last week I had a little more excitement, I guess. I was feeling really heavy so they checked my cervix again. Yeah, it's pretty much gone and starting to dilate (1-2), but many walk around like this for weeks before delivering. Anyway, they did another hormone test and this time it came back positive, soooo that pretty much means nothing. I asked the doctor and she said, "well, we know your cervix is gone, your starting to dilate and now your secreting the labor hormone, which means there is a 20% chance you'll deliver in 7-10 days." What is a 20% chance is that really even a chance! I don't know, maybe I'm thinking about rain. Then she says, "all I can say is your in the right place!" I have to agree. Thank goodness I'm here and not walking around in Junction. I am hoping my body will naturally go into labor or we schedule the c-section. I really don't want an emergency c-section due to decelerations in the babies heartrates, so hopefully all goes well. They are preparing me, though, I have now switched to Heparin shots instead of Lovenox. Lovenox (my blood thinner) lasts longer in the body but is only one shot a day; Heparin can be reversed easier but it's two shots a day. Fun!!! I now have bruised arms instead of a bruised tummy! Joy! But, that's okay there is a light at the end of the tunnel.
I know many of you think that I'm bored, but this morning a male nurse came in and said, "Your highness, your breakfast is served!" He told me that my room is great and that I am pampered. I told him that I am thankful to all of my family and friends who have pampered me with food and great stuff. I have a fan, refrigerator, food, plants, battery powered candles, etc. It's great. I watch tv, surf the Internet, and eat great ice all day. It's a blessing to be comfortable. On top of that, my room is like a large hotel suite (20X15) with large windows and a great view. It's really nice. I've also enjoyed my visitors! I look at this time of bedrest as time of rest because we all know I will not have rest for a long time.
By the way, those of you who want to post a comment but you're not having luck, I think you have to sign up for a Google account. I just used my same username and password as my normal email account and setup a quick Google account; if you do that then I believe you can leave comments. If not, email is great too. Love to all!
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