Today I had a doctors appointment and I did not have to sit on the NST machine, luckily! Being monitoredon the NST is nice because it monitors my contractions and there heart rates for 30 minutes, however, it also involves me being covered in gel and trying to keep the babies on the heart monitors in sometimes uncomfortable positions.
Instead we had an ultrasound and our sweet tech attempted to guess the babies size. Anytime you have them find the size of the baby via ultrasound it is an estimate, but it was especially hard with the placement of the twins. Baby A's head is deep down in my pelvis and Baby B's head is very high up in my ribs. Apparently if you cannot get a measure of the heads then their measurements are not likely to be very accurate. So her estimate for Baby A is 6 lbs. 3 oz. And her estimate of Baby B was 5 lbs. 14 oz. This is the first time Baby B has been measuring smaller than Baby A, though Baby B is likely to be smaller because of her two vessel cord.
Dr. Kouri was very pleased with the girls sizes and completely confident that we will make it to October 5th. So for now the bedrest continues. I will go back in to see him on Monday and get on the NST, and then go back the following Monday in preperation for surgery on Wednesday the 5th.
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