Well, it was a great weekend (or as great as one can get in a hospital). We watched Star Wars Episode 5 on Friday and Star Wars: The Clone Wars on Saturday. Add candy and popcorn and you have a great movie night! Mornings were fun too, with breakfast being delivered on Saturday (from the cafeteria, but not too bad) and McDonalds hot cakes on Sunday morning. We all enjoyed playing the Nintendo 64 - especially "battle" on Mario Cart (you try to pop the other players’ 3 balloons). Tonight is sure to be hard, with Missy remaining at the hospital and JJ and Matt returning home, but Missy has some girl time scheduled for tonight to get her through it. Matt will be back in the morning after taking JJ to Unicycle Club (yes, we do have a Unicycle Club at school).
We are hopeful that Monday will bring some answers, but are also aware that things may also remain unchanged. Saturday night Missy had some moderate contractions - a minute long, about 5 to 7 minutes apart, but they stopped. Regardless, both babies are breech and must be delivered by caesarean. Tomorrow we should get a complete panel of test results back by mid-morning, but you can’t know when a doctor will actually pop in to discuss the results with you. Our experience here is that both groups of doctors we see make their rounds by noon or so.
If the results are unchanged, or have changed very little, Missy will remain on bed rest at Northside until at least Saturday - which is 35 weeks. If the test results show some change, it is likely that a caesarean will be scheduled for the end of the week. If there is a great deal of change, we would be looking for a more immediate caesarean. It’s hard to tell now how Missy's body is handling the preeclampsia. Reaching 35 weeks would give the twins a fair chance at not being admitted to the NICU and going home. The doctors (routine and specialist) will make the best decision they can, balancing Missy's health and the twins’ health. Again, the twins are looking great and showing no signs of stress!
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Best of luck! I've been following your blog keeping up with the news. For what it's worth, my two were 35 weeks and both went home with me (including my wimpy white boy who was 4'13").
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