26 Weeks

Another week has gone past and it feels like it was a very busy one at that. Rohan was starting with longer hours with his work and feeling the punch at the end of the first day and with me handing over my work in the first 3 mornings and resting in the afternoons, and then seeing mum and dad from their actual going somewhere trip in the caravan – just made the week fly by …. Well for me anyways.

The system I spoke about with the file and if the Professor would be doing the scan or not, well it didn’t work this time. The file was behind the desk, and we had the Prof doing the scan. We had one of the lovely midwives that just came back from holidays, so it was nice catching up with her. For the life of me, I cannot remember her name at this point in time. Our appointment was at 1:30, but we rocked up early, just so we can get a seat and also so we can see them on time, but there was no one in the waiting room, so we got to go in half an hour earlier. We left when our appointment was meant to start! (Winning!) I went off to do my bit that I do each week for the and saw that there was both Prof Jan and Doctor in the room, but by the time I came back out, Doctor had gone on lunch so we just had the Prof doing the scan. (More Winning!) So onto the scan;

Twin 1 – its little heart is beating at 128 bpm (which is the slowest we have seen for a while but the Prof didn’t seem to concern about it). There was also a nice big full bladder and 4.5cm of fluid around it. Prof Jan also went through the body and showed us the stomach, which had fluid in it, the kidneys and the arteries and everything was in working order. The heart was beating very nicely with also the 4 chambers and all the Dopplers had forward flow. With just the way that the ninja was laying she just couldn’t get a scan of the brain blood flow, but it stretched whilst we were looking at it, and she got the scan and that was fine as well.

 

Twin 2 – The little ninja’s heart beat is at 157 bpm with also a nice full bladder and with 3.5cm of fluid round it. The Prof went through the same thing as with twin 1 and everything was where it should be and in working order. Even the heart was good. She was also very happy with the Dopplers for Twin 2, which is great. She also seemed to think that the scan this Friday may even see this one at 600grams, but she would still like us to get to 28 weeks before they do anything. I did ask would they be delivered when all of that is met and she said no, they are better of baking then outside. It is just there is a higher success rate of survival if both of those targets are met. So it was still good news all round!

So measurement will be taking this Friday. Trust me, I feel like both of these babies have put on weight, and with what I am eating, it better not be going to my rear end, just let me put that in there. I have been eating a lot of fruit and the protein shake and muffins and nuts, pretty much anything with protein in it, I have been consuming it. Rohan said to me before he left on Sunday that he would like to see me pop out another 3 inches! Let’s just say he got a really evil look and an ‘I don’t think so’. Half or even an inch would be great! I don’t have any stretch marks yet and I don’t want to start getting them now! Yes Mum and Lee, I am putting the oil on every night now!

So Saturday, saw both Rohan and I go back to the hospital for some course on parenting and going through the procedure of the C-section. It was very much an eye opener and although they were condensed coursed for 2.5 hours each; they did have a lot of information in them. The parenting class had 5 couples in it and 3 of us were having twins, plus all of us were having a problem pregnancy as well. One couple also have TTTS but had not gone as far as the laser surgery, although they were meant to have it each week, but they have now made it to 30 weeks, so they are just still being monitored. They were also from Merriden. The other couple were from Mandurah and she had been in hospital now for the last 4 weeks due to her dilating, she was at 28 weeks on the weekend. She is hopeful that if she hadn’t dilated more then she could go home for the day! Fingers cross to her, I couldn’t stand 3 days, let alone 4 weeks +.

The C-section course was interesting, but once she showed the pictures of the epidural and the spinal block, I just went to a different world and didn’t listen to anything else. I am so not a fan of needles, even if I can’t see them. But it was good to get an idea on what we will be going through on the day.

Well that is all I can think of, and I am so glad it is much cooler this week in Perth then the weekend and I am also glad that I am not in Kalgoorlie this week as I did not cope with the heat yesterday at all. But I am glad that I had Aunty Lorna here to force me in the pool to cool me off.

Lot of love Bobbi-Jo, Rohan and the Ninjas

xoxoxoxo