Cary here:
Sara called this afternoon around 4pm with some not so good news. Baby A (the small one) was seen on today's ultrasound to have some fluid buildup near its lung. The doctors were doing additional testing and I better come down to the hospital ASAP.
I was in the middle of a great, relaxing yoga session when Anne Slocum (Sara's mom) came rushing up and handed me the phone for Sara to tell me the news. Ahhh well, Triangle pose can wait for another day!
I arrived outside Sara's room to see Dr Henry Galan (the top dog of the University high risk practice) discussing the situation with a fetal cardiac specialist. The cardiac guy introduced himself, and then said "you don't want to get to know me and you don't need to...You're babies hearts looks fine."
Somewhat relived, I had a strong conversation with Dr Galan. I have read many articles he has published, and he is talked about in many books on high risk pregnancy, so I feel pretty good to have him on the team.
He basically said that there is some fluid that has developed near the lung of baby A. The heart checks out fine, and it seem unrelated to the absent/intermittent diastolic flow, so he is "curious but hopeful"......he says he consulted another doctor who was eager to "rush to delivery", but he seems more calm about the situation.
I guess the big news is he said something to the effect of that we are probably not talking about 32-34 week delivery anymore, likely sooner. He wants to start round 2 of steroid shots for Sara tonight (just in case we have to deliver in the next 72 hours), but remains hopeful that we can still make it "another week or two..." Sara is at 28 weeks and 5 days today.
After the discussion, he called into the room about 30 min later, and said as a precaution he'd like to do a continuous, all night monitoring on the babies...Sara is loving that news. Imagine having 2 heart rate monitors strapped to your belly so you can barely breathe, and have to sit still....all night. Might be a long one.
I am spending the night as well, so I'll get to see the play by play!
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