Last Thursday night, I missed a call from the hospital, and a random mid wife left me a voice mail saying that they'd had the team meeting and it had been decided that I needed to come in on the Monday for an additional scan. No reason why and no-one would answer my call after that....
Finally, Friday morning, the receptionist called me back and confirmed my appointment time, but couldn't tell me why I was being called back. So I asked to talk to my midwife (Sam). However, she came on the line and said she hadn't had a chance to look at my notes, so didn't know why I needed to come back in...so would call me back that arvo. Way to stress a girl out argh.
Anyway, about an hour later, she calls back and says there is nothing on my notes, and as she was on leave last week and not at the meeting, she doesn't have any further info. But she seemed to think it may have sth to do with the kidneys. Just her guess. Hmmm, first time I haven't been happy with our care. If its not in your notes, go and talk to the people that were at the meeting!!!!! Josh had made me promise him that I wasn't going to stress, and well, I still didn't know what I was supposedly stressing about..so I didn't stress. And we had a nice weekend and didn't think about it until Monday.
Monday:
We walked into the Womens assessment unit (first time there), and we both freaked a bit when we got shown to this room, and were told to make ourselves comfortable:
Umm, so how long was I going to be staying here? And then we got our own nurse, who checked my temperature and blood pressure. She was lovely, but it was a bit confusing when she asked us what we were there for - we were hoping she would be able to tell us!
Oh well, at least I could have a lie down, and at least the view was pretty good.
Finally, we got called in for a scan. And turns out they were mainly focused on doing the doppler scans. Which I don't know much about. But I'll look it all up when I get home. And then back to our room to wait for a doctor to come and see us and tell us what the scan results were.
I got a lunch pack delivered to my room while we were waiting, which made Josh wonder if the news was really bad. Whatever. The food was good and I was starving. Cheese and tomato sandwich, orange, yummy muffin and orange juice box. Awesome!
Another hour later and a Dr that looked a lot like Liv Tyler walked in. Told us that based on last Thursdays scan, they wanted to give me steroids in case the babies had to be taken out soon. But based on today's (Monday) scan, things weren't as bad as seemed PHEW! Basically, they measure resistance of blood flow through babies cords and both babies scans showed a higher than normal level of resistance. Which means they may not be getting enough oxygen/nutrients. And whilst its at an okay level for now, it can change super fast. And once it does, babies are better out than in.
Also, based on the babies positions, I'm currently looking at getting a c-section. This wont change unless Twin 1 flips, and also depends on their gestational age. So they want the anethesist to talk to me about my options. Just waiting for his/her call.
So basically, we are all fine and free to go home. And based on today's scan, we are sticking with one weekly scans. But they stressed that it is very likely that the babies will come early. I still feel great and I feel the babies move all the time. So I'm hoping to prove the doctors wrong, and getting to 34 or 35 weeks at least.
My big basketball of a belly :)
