Our up and down ride continues, this time with a bit of an uptick compared to last night's post. Bekka's bleeding has slowed dramatically. Unlike the last episode while were still at WakeMed Cary, last nights bleeding was only heavy for maybe an hour and a half. Overnight, there really was only heavy spotting and that continues today. It's not ideal for bleeding to be occurring at all, but this is certainly better.
Both babies did well overnight. As predicted, the "all night" monitoring did not occur because the little monkeys were simply moving around too much. Instead, they have done a couple of 1/2 hour monitoring sessions. Heartbeats look good and so does Bekka's lack of contractions.
Bekka received the second (of two) steroid injections around noon and then this afternoon, they conducted a detailed ultrasound in preparation for a meeting with the chief fetal-maternal medicine specialist here at the hospital. We hope he can put the whole situation together for us. We've had a parade of attending and resident physicians through the room and they've all been great and we certainly feel like someone is looking out for both Bekka and the little ones.
In much more mundane news - they found a sleeper chair for me. A recliner with wood-topped arms does not a comfy bed make. I'm shooting for more than 4 hours of sleep this evening ;)
Monday, April 19, 2010
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Thanks for keeping these updates coming! I'm glad to hear the news is a little more positive! I'll be keeping my fingers crossed that the meeting with the chief specialist goes well, answers all your questions, and leaves you with some hopeful outcomes. In the meantime, here's hoping for plenty of "holding steady" (much of which might involve actual sleep!)
ReplyDeleteNeil thanks for the updates - its so hard to know when and if we should call. This way we can let everyone that is following and praying for your situation know how everything is going. Tell Rebecca to hang in there and that we all love you bunches!
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