2 weeks in hosp. Growth U/S 27 weeks 6 days today

So has happy as I should be, yet disturbed. They have taken my IV out (for now) and they stopped monitoring the baby B 24/7. Though I was miserable and tired of the belts cutting into my back and round circles on my belly that became quite painful, I would rather know my baby has a good heart beat still. They are only putting baby and contraction monitor 3x a day for 20 minutes. I slept w/o the monitor last night and put it back on this morning and was on it for about and hour and the nurse actually came in the room and turned it off because I was on it "to long" GOD FORBID HE DECELERATED ANY OTHER TIME!

Why this disturbs me: I had my growth ultrasound today for weight etc.
A. (Jacob) measures at 2lbs 11oz and 28 weeks 3 days in size his fluid has maintained around 12ish for the last 3 days now YEAH! BPP normal at 8/8....though I did not get the weeks measurement 2 weeks ago apparently he has had no weight gain in 2 week last weight was est. at 2lbs 12oz
B. (Logan) Poor little guy just looks so sickly and anorexic on the ultrasound. His est. weight is 1lb 10oz though the tech said due to the very low fluid she was unsure how accurate it was because he is hard to see. measures t 25 weeks 6 days and his fluid today was 0.7cm BPP (which I am sure I will have the joy of having it redone later today) was 4/8 due to low fluid and not making breathing motions.

C. (Andrew) LOL the normal child is fine. His weight was est. at 2lbs 9oz and measures at 27 weeks and 4days. His BPP 8/8 and his fluid level was 4.28

Haven't talked to the doctor yet about what the plan is. I just wonder how long they are going to let B sit in there not growing in no fluid! I will be 28 weeks tomorrow I know they were trying to at least get past that point. I just don't know what to think anymore. I know I will be upset if they die from coming out to soon and prob more upset if B dies from not coming out. Such a hard call but I honestly think he has a better chance being delivered at this point than staying in. Oh well not up to me I suppose. All in God's hands. Thank you everyone for all your support and words of encouragement.

Amnio number 2

So we went to U/S around 11am. BPPs are same as yesterday A.8 B.6 C.8. Dr. Carlan did amnio went much better than last time. He actually numbed me enough that I did not feel needs going into uterus....unlike last time. Same as last time he used 2 needles and used big 1 liter vacuum bottles. He stopped at 2300cc this time because the cramping and contractions started. Kinda disappointed he did not get as much off as last time...but if what happen last time was going to happen again I am glad he didn't. He did reduce the fluid to 11. Baby B virtually has NO FLUID left. It measured less than 1cm. He said if I was a little farther he would have delivered me by now. Basically we sit on continuous heart rate monitor for baby B and just sit and wait and pray we can make it another week or 2 without issues. I do feel a little better not so much pressure when I move, just sore where they stuck me. When I got back to the room after the amnio the contraction pain did get bad. 1mg dilaudid and whatever they gave me for contractions knocked me out for a nice long nap for oh 7 hours or so. All is well though and we continue to truck along and pray for 28 weeks to come soon and then maybe 29 or 30 lol.

Day 10 in baby prison

So the imprisonment continues lol. Was suppose to go for another amnio reduction today but ultrasound did not come until 5pm today and supposedly the doctors had went home. So, apparently it will be done tomorrow. Apparently baby B "The Stuck one" heart rate decelerated today for about 4 minutes a few times. So I sit in this bed my butt hurts. I have on heart rate monitor, contraction monitor, ted hose, SCD compression pump for legs, the oh so wonderful blood pressure monitor, and a non-rebreather oxygen mask. Oh and my right wrist has as very painful IV in it that only took 10 tries to get. :-D Fluid levels today A. 21 B. 1.5 C. 3.6 Biophysical profiles were A. 8 out of 8 B. 6 because of low fluid level C. 8. I am waiting for doctor to get in here still (they usually show up around midnight) I will update more tomorrow after everything is done.

1 weeks at Winnie Palmer

Well lets see what has happened since Monday which I believe I have written about already. Tuesday I slept all day from the effects of all the meds I had to take on Monday. Tuesday's ultrasound all babies scored 8 out of 8 on BPPs. A fluid level was at 9 or 10 and B's was just above 2.

Wednesday was another scary day it was another day where they worried they might have to take them again. B scored 4 out of 8 on BPP while the other 2 scored 8. B's fluid level measure at 1.5 and he was not making any "breathing" movements. So, they decided to place me out a heart monitor to monitor his heart rate. They repeated the scan on him later that after noon and got the same results 4. So I sat on the stupid monitor all night long..with the nurse coming in every 30 minutes or so to refind his heart beat I was forced to sleep in 1 spot on my back all night. Ava did get to come visit me for a few hours with her uncle Rob..this made the day a little better!

Thursday wasn't so bad they did not get me for ultrasound until around 2 I think. All 3 babies scored 8 out of 8 again. NO MORE HEART MONITOR! Then late Thursday night I noticed I was having some contractions that started coming every 5 minutes or so.. I also had been having this pressure feeling with burning like uti but urine was fine when they tested it. BTW baby A's fluid was at like 14 again by now. B's fluid stayed around 2. So they gave be a bolus of LR and 100 mg of Visteril. This did the trick and the contractions stopped but they pelvic pain and pressure and burning still there. He did check to see if I was still dilating and I was the same at 3cm.

FRIDAY THE VISTERIL KICKED MY BUTT! They woke me up at 7am and made me eat breakfast so I could go to ultrasound. I took a shower while I waited for the food to come. Slept in the shower, slept in my breakfast, slept through ultrasound, then went back to my room and slept for the most part until 4pm! Once again all BPP were 8. A's fluid is at 18! So I am waiting to see what they are going to do about the fluid. Everything else was fine. Jack and Ava came to visit around 5:30 and stayed until 9. We escaped via w/c and went down the road and got pizza shhh! Now I am sitting here in quite the bad mood. Stuck on the contraction monitor everything annoys me. Sick of the phone ringing. That is really not even what is annoying. Gas noises like burping and farting piss me off...I sat on hold trying to get a PBJ sandwich for 1o minutes that pissed me off...then they brought me the wrong sandwich and had to sit on hold again grrr. Oh and they are checking blood sugar 5x a day and some of the stupid techs are sticking you in the center of my finger. FUCK that hurts! Now my mom is farting in her sleep snoring and has the air jacked down to 60! I hope I wake up on the right side of the bed tomorrow.

July 6th Amnio=bad!

Okay I am attempting to type through a foggy head of mag sulfate once more...sorry if I don't make since.
This morning I woke up looking forward to a nice quite day, breakfast and a shower. I waited for the new nurse to come on shift to flush IV so I could cover it and go to shower. I order breakfast and watched Jack pack to go home to get Ava. Jack left...I was eating breakfast and then the nurse came and told me they had called for me to go to ultrasound. I ended vomiting up everything I ate for breakfast as transport came to take me to u/s. So, I go to u/s. The tech is checking heart tones and fluid levels...she get a call saying MD has changed orders to get BPP (biophysical profiles) on all the babies as well. The heart rates were good, I can't remember what they were now and I was feeling great except for the pain I was having on my lower right side where baby A lives...next thing I know the tech comes back in and tells me the MD wants to do an amniocentesis and pull the extra fluid off of A. I have a consent form given to me giving me all the risks of having it done and I am at the hospital alone. Dr. came in and explained to me the ttts was getting bad that A's fluid measured above 17 in its largest pocket while B sat just under 2. Baby A also had was is called hydrops which is an accumulation of fluid within the baby's tissues. This is very bad and many babies that develop this can die from heart failure. So the doctor tells me that the theory is by pulling the fluid off on A it will help stabilize the pressure between the 2 babies so the blood will flow more equally between the 2. The risk of having the procedure done was preterm labor, ruptured membranes, infection, and placental abruption. The risk of doing nothing was risking A and B possibly dying or delivering them now anyways and them only have a 67% survival rate w/o complications....I pray about it and decide to go on with the procedure.
Dr. Carlan sticks 2 large 18 gage needles through my stomach and uterus into the amniotic fluid sac of A. He ultimately drained over 3600ml of fluid off of the baby and the pocket size from baby a went from 17 to 9. I started experiencing really bad cramping pains all over my abdomen and back then strong contractions and tenderness all over. MD thought I might be about to have a placental abruption from taking off so much fluid.....I am rushed to the L & D triage area as I scream in pain down the hall and the are constantly looking via u/s at the placenta and heart rates of a and b. After about 45 minutes of non stop excruciating pain I was finally given 1 mg dilaudid and a bunch of other drugs to relax uterus and stop contractions. In the mean time just in case they started prepping me for an emergency c-section IV's foley and sign consents and blood draws. I did stabilize before this happened and MD decided he thought the risk of an abruption was not as serious at this point. So after about 1 1/2 in triage I was sent back to my room. I was given more meds for pain and things to stop the contractions. The evil mag sulfate drip is back and I have my 3rd new IV in 2 days! grr. I have slept all day and feel tiny contractions still, but nothing like this morning. I am feeling some movements from babies non from where A is but I think I have felt B move now. So now I just wait for the u/s in the morning to see what is next.

Day 4 of hospital prison

Okay today did not start off well, but it did get better. They came in this morning and discontinued the mag sulfate and IV fluid. My IV was leaking they took out the IV and change the site to Hep Lock in my bother arm. So things were looking up. I was now FREE from the IV but still stuck on the contraction monitor. Doctor also told me that I could leave my room via w/c but had to stay on the floor. BTW I woke up feeling like I had been hit by a bus from an extremely uncomfortable night sleep every muscle in my body hurt and has all day long..I have non stop headaches and surprisingly my blood pressure was low. So Jack did take me to the outside prison on the floor with the 10 foot brick wall so you could not see anything but still nice to have a breeze and fresh air..I suppose. I basically slept all day and was miserable...so The nurses and doctors here that never follow-up were pissing me off... Nurses never came back to see how headaches were etc MD said she would come back and never did etc...

I totally skipped a big part of the day...While I was out on my wheel chair adventure I did go get my daily ultrasound. I noticed that the u/s tech took a lot longer to look at "heart beats" than the one did yesterday. The nice thing was she did get the 3D thing out and attempted 3D face shots of babies A and C. Could not get any pics of B he was facing my back :-( It was still a nice little perk she did. She tells me at the end of the ultrasound heart rates A. 128 B. 135 C. 122...I ask about fluid and she kinda tries not to saying thing and just says well A's is still high and B's is low...B was not low yesterday... this is when it come to me asking the doctor what is going on and all the MD that come in here kept saying they haven't reviewed the u/s and would come back and never did.
....Back to how nurses and doctors here never follow-up care. The poor night nurse came in and I just went off! I told her about the headaches and my butt hurting from this bed...the fact that there is not a recliner or chair you can sit in to avoid numb ass from the bed and how I want to know what the hell is going on with my babies and someone needs to tell me something!!!!

She has been wonderful! I wish she could be my nurse all the time. Within 20minutes she was in the room with my UTI antibiotic and Furicet for my headache. 5 minutes later the tech was in here with an air mattress thing to put over the bed to make the bed a little softer. She then came back LIKE THEY SHOULD about an hour after the meds and asked how I was feeling. BTW much better now. She also got an order or Ambien to sleep if I need it. ANOTHER DOCTOR I have not met came in and did give me the details on the babies FINALLY!

This is what he said: Growth wise A. is in 85% B. is 20% and C. 60% He finally came out and said what I have know the whole time that there is a "possible" twin to twin transfusion" between A and B. Fluid volumes today on A was like 8.5 and B was 2.1. He says the parinatologist come in at 7am and all the MDs teachers/students will discuss "the case" and they will have a plan of action that I will apparently be informed of tomorrow as to when to intervene, watch, etc...

So I am a much happier person I also now have wonderful TED hose and SCD on on my legs to prevent blood clots and I sweat my butt off on my new air mattress...I am never happy lol..oh and I am starting a wonderful 24hr urine. Yea! lol now with all my new found wires and contraptions my poor husband is leaving tomorrow to take care of my daughter and I will get to annoy the staff all day long to help me take this crap on and off all day when I have to pee.

Okay I think I am done now...sorry for my crappy grammar and spelling I have no desire to proof read. I will update again if something changes.

PRETERM LABOR!

So on Thursday July 2nd my husband and I were going about our day as normal. I had been having so low abdominal pain and back pain (like I have been having for weeks and my doc said was normal) and some cramping in my hips needless to say I was miserable. By Thursday night around 8pm I noticed just from walking around the house and doing lite house work that I was getting tightening in the top of my stomach and not just the intermentine pain in low abdominal and back like before..so better to safe than sorry I called and spoke with the MD on call for my doctor and told him about the irregular inconsistent pain in my abdominal and back thinking it was Braxston hix and he tells me to come to L&D triage to be placed on the monitor just to see what is going on. By the way at this point I was 25 weeks and 5 days....I take a shower and the pain is gone. I almost decided not to go but decided I better go check because I am paranoid.

L & D Triage: I get in there at like 10pm I let the nurse know I am no longer feeling contractions get in the the lovely gown. They attempt to monitor all 3 babies heart beats and then put the contraction monitor on. Within a few minutes they tell me nothing and say I better call the Dr in here...me assume it was to get help placing baby monitor things because they were having a hard time picking them up. They come back with a portable ultrasound MD finds placement of all 3 babies on heart tone thing then tells me he is going to check my cervix....so I assume the position. Totally expecting him to tell me I am closed and I am having braxston hix he looks up at me and says your 2-3 cm dilated and about 70% effaced. So now I think shit! I am not going anywhere this sucks! So he goes into the spiel of preterm labor and how 25-26 week babies do and that they will prob get transferred to a different hospital, but first they would try and stop my labor and if they were able to stop it I would be shipped to a hospital with a level 3 nicu....

To make my already long story short..they put me on a mag sulfate drip. Strict bed rest Foley and all kinds on monitors..I stay at LRMC until like 10am I was checked I was at 3cm and then I was taken by ambulance "lights and siren" fun fun all the way to Winnie Palmer Hospital in Orlando, FL one of the LRMC L & D nurses road along just in case.... I sat in the Winnie Palmer triage for hours finally 4hrs into my stay a MD finally comes to see me..painful pelvic...still 3cm....finally around 4-5pm I was taken to my dungeon where I will live until my babies are born. I have had a total of 2 steroid shots 24hrs apart 1 in each butt cheek to help mature babies lungs. Had an ultrasound done yesterday in the triage area baby A Jacob weighs in at a whopping 2lb 12oz with a fluid volume of 8! B Logan our little hamster is 1lb 8oz with a fluid level of 3.9 and C Andrew was 2lbs 2oz and his fluid level was at 3.6.
Today is Saturday July 4th. I sit here in my dungeon with my new found Internet which makes me feel a little more happy about the possibility of being here for a very long time.. they are doing daily ultrasound and I am still on my mag drip. It makes me feel horrible. I feel hot and extremely tired all the time. Heart beats A. 125 B. 136 C. 121 I got to see my baby for the first time since I left her at home on Thursday night. I miss her so much. My mom, dad, and sister drove from AL just in case they were in a panic when we though we might have to deliver 26 weeks babies. Now it is just a sit and wait game...I sit and sit sand sleep and take hourly Blood pressures and record my input and urine output. I sit on the mag drip. I have had no contractions that I have felt anyways since early yesterday morning.