just another day in labor and delivery ;)

yesterday (tuesday) josh and i went in for the twins bio physical ultrasound and to see the maternal fetal medicine specialist.  the boys scored an 8/8 on their bio physical which made this mama VERY happy :) and of course i love that we are able to see them once a week during ultrasounds...IF (and people that is a HUGE if) we ever decided to have more children i don't know what it will be like to only have a couple ultrasounds...we are so spoiled and used to being able to see our sweet little guys every week!

when the mfm specialist came in he very sweetly informed me that my blood pressure was way to high and that i had protein in my urine so he was admitting me to l&d to monitor my blood pressure and keep an eye on my contractions.  the weird thing is that i felt perfectly fine other than being really nauseous (which has been the norm lately-ew).  so my favorite nurse comes in with a WHEELCHAIR...i was mortified!  i insisted that i could walk over to l&d but policy is policy...so off they wheeled me.  they hooked me up to all the monitors and actually had me in a birthing room instead of just the triage part which scared me a little bit.  at one point i was having contractions every 1-3 minutes...yikes!  they pumped me full of fluids and had me lay on my side...in between all the bathroom breaks (from all the fluids!).  they also started me on the lovely 24 hour urine sample (we did this once before in february)...finally after 8 hours my contractions slowed down and my blood pressure went down enough that they sent me home...whew!  i brought in my lovely jug-o-urine today and had more blood drawn so we should know tomorrow if i have preeclampsia and where we'll go from here.  neither my mfm specialist or my regular ob seem to think i will make it until 36 weeks (at which point they will induce me/schedule my c-section)...this really stresses me out because it could happen at any time and i feel so unprepared..even though we ARE as prepared as we'll ever be!

baby b is still head up and baby a is head down as always...they keep telling me delivery options are up in the air depending on baby b...the thing is is that i have always said i would prefer a c-section over a vaginal delivery (and this was long before i ever got pregnant-let alone knew i would have twins).  but as d-day gets closer i find myself second guessing my adamant decision.  IF baby b decides to flip to a head down position it might be best to try deliver them naturally..."try" being the key word.  they would make me deliver in the OR just in case and i really really really don't want to have to recover from both a vaginal delivery AND a c-section if baby b decided to be difficult.  so then this makes me think it would just be easier to go with a c-section...i just don't know and that stresses this overly type a mama out!

ANYWAY-my bags are officially packed now and we're just playing it by ear!  :) hopefully the twins decide to bake a little longer but we know we have the best care available if they do decide to make their appearance early! 

here is a sweet picture of baby b from my 30 week ultrasound...32 weeks this friday!