Hospital Update

I've been in the hospital for 3 days now and the days are already starting to blend together. I am trying to pinpoint a date when I can go home, but of course the doctors and nurses don't know. So I continue bringing up my "guesses" and see if they agree with me haha. It would just be nice to have a date to look forward to. I'm very optimistic about the babies' health and feel everything will turn out okay. I find myself crying every day, mostly at night when I'm all alone, but I'm pretty sure the majority of tears are due to these stupid pregnancy hormones that really started messing with my emotions a week and a half ago. I FaceTime Kinsey and she visits me every day. She's been very happy having grandma take care of her, so I don't worry about her too much. Of course Eric and his mom have been great through all of this, bringing me whatever I may need from home.

By the way...

***HAPPY BIRTHDAY ERIC!! I LOVE YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!***

I guess before I get into further detail I should probably tell you that these little girls have names. First names at least :)

Meet little Scarlett, currently weighing in at 1 lb 8 oz. She's still a little stinker always curled up low in my pelvis. Sometimes it makes it pretty difficult to keep the monitors on her heart rate. 

 And then we have baby Shayla. She's always on top of Scarlett with lots of room to roam. She currently weighs 1 lb 6 oz. 

 The first 2 days and nights I was strapped up to the monitors 24/7 to make sure Scarlett and Shayla were stable and I wasn't having any contractions. It was pretty miserable. Because I'm only 25 weeks they are still tiny and have room to move around. Hence, nurses were constantly in and out of my room adjusting the monitors to find the heart rates whenever the babies would swim. Any tiny movement I made would almost always cause the monitors to lose the heart rates. I felt like I was in a straight jacket always trying to remain completely still. That's one way to lose your sanity. I slept an average of 4 1/2 hours those nights and was not able to fall asleep during the day for naps. Needless to say, I was crying and texting Eric in the middle of the second night telling him how tired I was. I eventually passed out at 4 am. 

 The monitors are checking for dips in the heart rates since Scarlett's heart rate was low for quite a long time on Wednesday. There were a few dips the first couple days but it's improved a lot. THANKFULLY, yesterday I was taken off continuous monitoring and now I'm only strapped up for an hour every four hours. When it hits that hour mark I feel like my stomach is on fire with itchiness. I can't believe I lasted on continuous monitoring when I can barely get through an hour at a time now.  But the heart rates are looking great and I personally don't foresee any problems with them. 

 As for the fluid, they are going to re-check the levels next week, most likely on Wednesday. Checking any earlier would be pointless because they know the results would still be low. The doctor is hoping the ibuprofen I was on to lengthen my cervix is the cause for lack of fluid. Ibuprofen can affect babies' kidneys and cause them not to pee, therefore there is no fluid being recycled to protect them and the placenta. Unfortunately, even if the fluid results are good I am still stuck here. The doctor just said we need "time." Yup, that's all I have to work with. There's no guarantee that the lack of fluid was caused by the ibuprofen and if this is the case, they have no way of knowing the cause and can only monitor the babies. 

All the focus right now is on Scarlett and Shayla's health. They aren't concerned about my cervix at all. Apparently after 28 weeks they wouldn't care about what length it is anyway. So I'm REALLY hoping to get out of here when I'm 28 weeks. After talking to a nurse she thinks Christmas is a good goal. AHHHHH I hope not. I want to be able to do all the Christmas stuff with Kinsey like meeting Santa. *sigh* One day at a time, I suppose.