August 7th

I slept so much better last night. I think that it was because of exhaustion from stress and not sleeping the night before. This morning Dr Field came in to talk to us. She was the same Dr that I saw last time I was down here. She said that they will be testing Alyssa’s cord flow every day and that unless they saw reversal or she was showing signs of stress that it is ok to keep her in. She also said that they were going to do another growth ultrasound 2 weeks from the 6th (so August 20th) to determine if she has had any growth. If she still hasn’t shown any signs of growth they will deliver the babies soon after that. If she has grown we will just continue to monitor all of the babies and let them stay in. Obviously we would prefer for them to stay in as long as they can but for now I just hope to keep them in until the 20th. Dr Field then did a test called a biophysical profile. This monitors babies’ movement, tone, fluid, and breathing. Each category is given 2 points, a total of 8, depending on how the babies do. Alyssa scored 8/8, yay! I am just praying that this little girl keeps doing well. I am not ready to have these babies yet. The other thing that happened today is they decided that since there was no reason to monitor Mason or Kyle that we didn’t need to. Now they will just have a 20 min NST done daily. What a relief, only one baby monitor to keep on and have adjusted.