3rd Trimester with S.F.W.

Right before Thanksgiving we went for our 30 week ultrasound and everything looked good minus the fact that his abdomen was measuring smaller than 10%. Dr. A wanted to see us again in four weeks to see if he had grown anymore or if we would need to do future follow-ups. When we went at 34 weeks he measured smaller than 10% in his abdomen and measuring small all over. So they wanted us to start coming in for stress tests twice a week. That same visit I received one steroid shot and did a stress test, and came back the following day for the second steroid shot. The steroid shots were supposed to help with lung development in case they needed to deliver early, or he came early.

The stress tests monitored his heart rate at my contractions and how long it took him to make several movements. The first two stress tests went fine, But the third one, on christmas eve, I had to stay longer after his heart rate had significantly decreased during a contraction I had. He also had taken longer between movements than previous appointments. On the 27th I again had to stay longer then the 20 minutes that it had taken before because he was not moving very much. The nurse came in and gave him what I'd like to call the baby fire alarm buzz on my tummy and he about jumped straight out! He moved some more then and I was able to leave. The next evening I had noticed he hadn't moved very much all day so I laid down to try to count how long it took him to make 10 movements. He was supposed to make 10 movements within a two-hour period. It took him almost a full two hours to move 10 times, so I decided to get up and finally get out a few things packed for hospital bag. I just wasn't sure if we would possibly need to go in to have him checked.

To be continued...