Still Going

Bea is still hanging out where she should be. She's typically real calm in the morning and we usually try to get her fired up to do some heart accelerations. She does accelerations pretty well on command for me (my voice). Melissa's voice is soothing and causes Bea to calm down. We'll see if that continues in the future. Bea is off the charts in the evening monitoring. It might that in the evening she's just been fed and in the morning she's waiting for breakfast. She won't stay on the monitor in the evening and has one acceleration after another. In the last two weeks she likes to kick at the monitors (that are like flat paperweights held against Melissa's belly by elastic belts) and sometimes completely moves the monitor. The night nurses aren't quite as happy as the morning nurses - the night nurses spend a lot more time trying to find Bea since she's squirming all of the time. During the biometric test on Thursday apparently Bea would regularly take three breaths and kick real hard over and over. Everyone was pleading for her to take a break with the kicking so they could monitor her breathing consistently for 30 seconds.

In the last two days four pregnant women have checked into Melissa's antepartum floor with water ruptures and checked out within one day. We're very happy with the way thing are going for us. My theory about Melissa's tear being surgically related and is much smaller structurally is getting stronger all the time.

Wednesday is the weekly get to know your antepartum floor neighbors day and only one other person showed up besides Melissa. The other person had lost a twin just like Melissa, but she delivered the deceased twin naturally and sealed back up. Thus she obviously had fraternal twins because they had their own sacs and placentas. The (likeley eldest) doctor in the group indicated he had only seen four cases like that in his career.