Last Friday we had our regular scheduled NST. As usual, I had something sweet before going in to get the babies moving. Friday it was hot chocolate with a little bit of coffee. Right away it was clear to me that this might have been a mistake and stimulated the babies to much. We had a really hard time keeping the babies on the monitors, because they were both moving around so much. A couple of times they took B off the monitors so we could just focus on keeping A on the monitor, who was moving around so much! I had the nurses sitting with me most of the time chasing down A. I was on the monitors for 2+ hours (closer to 3 hours I believe), and during the times we could keep A on the monitors for longer stretches, we could see that A was having a lot of heart beat decelerations. A's baseline heart rate was also lower than it normally is. (normally A's baseline is in the 150's...Friday it was in the 130's when it was steady. When A would have decels, it would get down to 120bpm! ) A's line on the strip kept going up and down like crazy.
This ended up landing me a biophysical profile, which is an u/s where they watch the babies for movement and other things. Of course as soon as I got down their, both babies go to sleep! The u/s ended up taking an hour because we were waiting for them to start moving again for us! Finally they woke up, and the tech was able to get what she needed. I got a couple of exciting things from the u/s. First, we found out baby B is actually head down!!! The body is transverse, which is why the heart beat is high, making us believe B was tranvserse, but the head is down...so really B is in an oblique position. Hopefully this means once A is born, B will just slide into place! Crossing my fingers! A is still head down...with the head very low. She couldn't even get a look at A's face at all. All we could see of A's head was the back of the skull. We got a beautiful picture of B's face though! This is the best picture we've gotten all pregnancy!
I think B looks a lot like Lily already!
They sent me back up to my room, where they wanted me hooked back up to the monitors. At this point I had been at the hospital for 4 hours, and hadn't been able to get in contact with Sean at all, who was outside in the car waiting with Lily! Luckily he had been able to get a call in while I was down getting my u/s, and was filled in by the nurses on what was happening, so he went out to get Lily some dinner.
Before getting hooked back up, my doctor came in to talk to me. They found out on the u/s that baby A has low fluid. This could be the reason A was having decels, and was possibly in distress. She told me that if A was already in distress, labor would make things worse. She started saying that at a minimum she would probably be keep me over night for monitoring. At that point I started thinking I was going to end up with a c-section that night! She also checked me then. I'm now 2cm dilated, 70% effaced, and baby A is still at -1 station. So we've had some progression! I finally got in contact with Sean at this point, and told him to run home and pack our bags! I was convinced we were having babies either that night or the next morning!
Back on the monitors I went, and luckily both babies were looking a lot better now! Baby A stopped having those huge decels, and they were staying on the monitors better now. I was having a lot of contractions at this point though...probably from the stress of this appointment and dehydration. I was contracting about every 3 minutes. They were getting pretty painful too, because I was stuck on my back. Luckily they started spreading out after I got some more water though. I was monitored for another 2 hours, and my doctor was finally relieved enough that Baby A wasn't in distress, so I was able to go home, with instructions to come back the next morning for another nst. I was so relieved to be able to go home that night! For a while I really thought they would be coming that night, and we were not prepared at home at all! This was the kick in the butt we needed to finally get my bags packed though!
So that was my NST from hell. In total I was at the hospital for 6 hours. It was pretty stressful for a non stress test! Luckily the nst I went to the next morning went well, and I was only there for an hour! We've spent the rest of the weekend doing last minute things around the house. Thankfully I feel a lot more prepared now in the event my next NST tomorrow doesn't go well. Part of me has a feeling my doctor will just want to induce sometime this week because of the low fluid, and honestly, I'd be happy with that. I think it's about time for these babies to come out into the world!
I'll try to keep everyone updated on how tomorrow's doctors appointment and nst go!
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