Friday May 17, 2013

On Wednesday late afternoon my nurse came in and told me the doctor had ordered a biophysical profile (BPP) ultrasound.  It is an ultrasound that watches for specific movement on the baby within a specific amount of time.  They had ordered this ultrasound because the baby wasn't as reactive on the NST as she should have been.  I was pretty worried waiting for them to come get me for the ultrasound.  The baby did great.  She scored 8 out of  8.  My nerves were pretty shot by the end of the day.  

Thursday my nurse did my NST early in the day, like around 10:00.  All day she kept telling me she hadn't heard anything back and usually no news is good news. About 6:00 the nurse came into tell me they had ordered another BPP.  Later she came back to tell me that ultrasound was swamped and they weren't sure when they would come to get me.  I wasn't as nervous because everything had been ok on Wednesday and I had been feeling her move quit a bit.  Since ultrasound wasn't getting to me the doctor changed her mind and had me repeat the NST instead of doing the BPP ultrasound.   

Today's ultrasound showed zero flow on almost every place in the cord they looked.  Then there were intermittent spots that had negative flow.  Today is the first day they have seen the negative flow.  The baby is probably about 6 weeks behind overall.  They estimate she weights about 904 grams which is right at 2 pounds. At 32 weeks a baby should weigh about 3.75 pounds. 

I just spoke with the doctors and they are going to deliver the baby today.