Today was my appt. with Dr. Maher. My ultrasound took a while today...around 2 hours. The baby was positioned facing my right side bottom down and it wasn't in a great position to get all the measurements the tech needed. She said that the baby is 1lb and 14 oz and that she doesn't see anything to suggest he has trisomy 18. She kept going over his heart and cord checking the blood flow. The hole in the baby's heart has fully closed up now.
After reviewing the ultrasound the doctor said that the baby has some cord restriction and the placenta/cord are working harder than they should to get the blood to the baby. At times the baby isn't getting the blood from the cord. He isn't sure why that is happening. The amniotic fluid is also really low. This means that I'm getting dehydrated so the doctor said for me to really drink a ton of water and gator aid. He also put me on baby aspirin to see if that helps with the blood flow. He is gonna wait to see if those two things help before he puts me in the hospital for IVs and puts me on oxygen. I go back to see him in a week.....Sept. 15th at 3pm for him to check everything out again. We are gonna just pray and do everything the doctor said and hope that our little boy will be fine at the next appt.
2 comments:
I think you over did it over the weekend, love bug! Rest and drink and do some kick counts while lounging on the couch this week. I'm not going to bug you by calling to see how you are, don't wanna risk waking you up so I will get updates from mom.
Love you!!!!!!!!!
Aw! I'll call ya tomorrow!
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