Today we met with Dr. Berry, our Perinatal specialist. He does all of the ultrasounds and he and Dr. Siarezi will coordinate the c-section and decide what is best.
Of course, the placenta hasn't moved in the last four weeks. I love ultrasound days. The pictures don't do the situation justice. Today we saw that she was holding her left foot and her little mouth was moving and she was swallowing the amniotic fluid. Gross to just think about, but super cute to actually see.
They checked her measurements around her head, abdomen, femur and amniotic fluid. They also check the heart and today checked for breathing motions. Of course, she isn't breathing, but her little chest is practicing. I think the diaphragm works or practices or something. She passed all of the tests.
She is 4.3 lbs and although i'm 32 weeks 1 day pregnant she is measuring at 31 weeks 5 days. They says she's great.
If she were to be born tomorrow due to an emergency she would be in the hospital for a month. It's a feed and grow time according to the dr. Which means that for the remainder of the time she'd spend inside of me, she'd be developing her liver a bit better and putting on more weight. This would be helped in the hospital.
The plan is, amnio on November 7th at 9:15a. They said the results take about 24 hours. Then, the c-section could be scheduled for the following day. That is, if her lungs are developed, which I think they will be since we had the steroid shot in September when we were in the hospital. So, from my calendar that would be giving her a November 9th birthday!!!
I can't believe there are only 4 more weeks left. I can't wait to hold her and know that she is safe and healthy.
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