Alex will age out of his first steps therapy at age 3. At that point he will qualify for the local carmel developmental preschool for his language delay. Preschool is 2.5 hours in the morning. He can be transported by school bus both to and from school. I don't know how I feel about my small 3 year old ride the bus by himself. I will probably bring him outside to watch the big kids get on and off their bus at the beginning of next school year to see if he gets excited about the bus. If hes not excited I will just drive him. He will do OT for feeding through my insurance. His physcal therapy has been decreased to 2xmonth because he's pretty much caught up gross motor wise. In 3 months he will graduate totally from PT.
I meet with alex's dietition twice a month. This last visit alex's weight has been the same for the past few months. The dietition thinks he needs more calories based on how much more active he is now than 6 months ago. During this 10 minute long conversation Alex jumped up and down about 20 times, spun in circles, made over 15 laps around the lower level, threw the ball to the dog then to himself. Yeah, he's a bit active!
Caroline is doing great. Current weight 3#1oz! She was also sucking her thumb on ultrasound. Passing her 2xweek BPP with flying colors!
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Monday, February 20, 2012
what's this?? The THIRD trimester?!?!?!?
It feels really good to be in the third trimester! 2 months to go (if I'm lucky!) I don't mind being off my feet as muchas I can this time. With the twins it was depressing to be in the hospital and more then a month away from bare-bones viability. I'm making good progress. I still have some contractions but nothing you would write home about. I feel releaved that even if Caroline was delivered today she would not only make it but have a good shot of being just fine. I got to do my 28 week labs...which oddly enough I was looking forward to...and of course I passed with flying colors! I have not received steroids injections yet...they want to time them within the week of delivery for maximum effectiveness. This is a good sign that no one thinks I'm with in a week of delivery. By popular demand I'm going to try and post a pic of Alex "touching" Caroline.
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Every. Day. Counts.
28 weeks! Now I can breathe. Mortality rates at 28 weeks are almost nothing.
I woke up Sunday morning contracting every 5 minutes for over 2 hours. I went into the hospital where Caroline's heart rate was showing some mild variables...this bought me an IV, NPO status, and an overnight stay. Contractions became very under control with some Procardia which I now take every 8 hours. Procardia is actually a BP medicine used off label for preterm laborious. The other reason I stayed the night was to make sure my BP didn't drop too much. In fact, they cut the dose in half during the night because of low BP.
Since Ive been released,Ive seen the high risk OB who delivered the twins. She did a through ultrasound looking at the chord to make sure there was no entangling. Dopplers were done that proved good blood flow. Caroline passed a BPP with 10/10. I also talked ultrasound tech into turning the ultrasound machine to 3D and 4D. It was very cool. Caroline has my mouth and I could see the dimple in her chin. I would post the pic but its too much effort to scan it into the computer.
The plan from here on out is to continue to stay off my feet as much possible. Procardia every 8 hours. Weekly ultrasounds and twice weekly NST.
I'm off work now until July. Don't worry, I still get to go into the office twice a week to see my friends. I plan on coasting through the next month.
I woke up Sunday morning contracting every 5 minutes for over 2 hours. I went into the hospital where Caroline's heart rate was showing some mild variables...this bought me an IV, NPO status, and an overnight stay. Contractions became very under control with some Procardia which I now take every 8 hours. Procardia is actually a BP medicine used off label for preterm laborious. The other reason I stayed the night was to make sure my BP didn't drop too much. In fact, they cut the dose in half during the night because of low BP.
Since Ive been released,Ive seen the high risk OB who delivered the twins. She did a through ultrasound looking at the chord to make sure there was no entangling. Dopplers were done that proved good blood flow. Caroline passed a BPP with 10/10. I also talked ultrasound tech into turning the ultrasound machine to 3D and 4D. It was very cool. Caroline has my mouth and I could see the dimple in her chin. I would post the pic but its too much effort to scan it into the computer.
The plan from here on out is to continue to stay off my feet as much possible. Procardia every 8 hours. Weekly ultrasounds and twice weekly NST.
I'm off work now until July. Don't worry, I still get to go into the office twice a week to see my friends. I plan on coasting through the next month.
Sunday, February 5, 2012
26 weeks!
I've been trying for the past 3 days to get a picture of my "former 26 weeker" with his hand on my current 26 weeker...but there was little cooperation and even less photographic skill. As of today I'm officially 3 days past where I had the twins. At 26 weeks, Caroline weighs in at 2 pounds even. At 26 weeks Alex was 1 pound 10 oz and Lauren was 1 pound 12oz. So you can see how much bigger Caroline is!
In the medical field 23 weeks is considered "viability" where they try to save the baby. This whole pregnancy I've thought of 26 weeks as that. That being said, I've cut my activity level way back...I have people coming in to play with Alex so I can be off my feet as much as possible...ultimate goal is 10 more weeks...but I NEED 2 more to breathe easily.
In further news, in the past 2 weeks Alex has been doing MUCH better with eating...I figured I needed to post another picture soon...disregard his "special needs hair" that needs to be wet down after nap and sleep to look normal!
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