Well here we go again.

We showed up at Good Samaritain Hospital at 11:05a after driving in circles to try and find a place to park through all the crazy construction they have going on. We finally make it up though the maze of a hospital. I am completely out of breath by the time we make it up to the 8th floor. -JEESH-

....and then we waited 40 mins to be called back to my 11:00am appointment.

After the ultrasound which only lasted all of about 20 minutes because the babies were really cooperating with us! and the results are:

Cervix- long and closed! 4.02cm was the shortest measurement and the doctors said that was beyond excellent for having twins with twin to twin and all the exccess fluid! So bravo cervix! I wish you could give your friend, the placenta, some advice of how to function correctly for a change. Maybe have a sisterly conversation to jump start to into regularity. -in my dreams-

Anyways....

Gavin- Baby A, our recipient is measuring 21 weeks 3 days, I am 21 weeks 1 day so he is a little ahead of schedule! He is 16 ounces so we have made the 1 pound mark! :) He is looking great and plump. He was all stretched out. He is head down already on my right side. His little noggin was touching my cervix and his feet are stretched all the way out to my ribs. He has 12cm of amniotic fluid which is still in excess. He should only have around 4cm.

Enough about Gavin! Gabriel, Gabe- Baby B, our donor is measuring 20 weeks 1 day. So he is still a week behind which hasn't changed. He is only 12-13oz right now which is still good! He is breech on my left side. His little neck is kinked right now against my rib cage, hence all the darn pressure I feel against my lung! and his is in the fetal position with his knees half way tucked up and his little arms were free moving from his mouth, to suck his thumb, down to his umbilical cord. and the kicker is HE HAS FLUID IN HIS BLADDER, but no measurable about around his body, not that it isn't there. The pressure of Gavin's excess fluid is just applying pressure to his amniotic sac. He is just recycling there, my environmentally conscious fetus, is peeing, drinking it, and peeing and drinking it.

On both babies their heartrates and blood pressure in their bodies and umbilical cords are in normal range! Their weight discordance is still only about 15%

So we are still in stage 1.

The ultrasound technician in Springfield just didn't take the time to see if Gabe had emptied his bladder or if it just wasn't there. She just did a quick scan and called the doctor in and off we went. So this trip may not have been needed. We have an echocardiogram tomorrow morning at 8am and if their hearts are still stable and Gavin's leak hasn't progressed we are stable still. Dr. P, we saw today. He said that if we are stable we can just go back home or if it gets worse we will be candidates for the surgery. .

Either way no surgery or surgery I will be choosing to do another amnioreduction. To take some pressure off of Gavin's heart and to allow Gabe to not be so smooshed against my ribs and compressed in his sac. The last time we had a reduction his little amount of fluid nearly instantly doubled because of the lack of pressure!

So now we are back at the hotel, to sit and wait for another 18 hours for my next appointment.

So it all depends on how Gavin's little beating heart looks in the morning to the next step in our adventure.