To start, Wife's labs included a blood chemistry so I made her fast. Because of that I didn't want to eat in front of her, so we both got up without breakfast.
At around 10 we left the house and went to have her labs drawn at the hospital a few miles from grandma's. Afterwards we went to the MFM appointment early to fill out paperwork.
What followed was quite possibly, the longest office visit day.
Ever.
We waited about an hour and then Wife got taken back for "vitals", which we have now caught on actuall means "do you get beaten" questioning. We then went back for NST (Non-Stress Test) monitoring. This is also an exercise in futility, as trying to monitor Baby's heartbeat is almost impossible. She does not stay in one spot more than about 5 seconds! After about 40 minutes of the NO, myself, Wife, and almost every nurse in the office, trying to chase baby B around ... We managed to get a total of about 20 seconds of consistent heart beat tracing! They finally called it quite with that!
Afterwards (mind you we have now been in the office 2 hours), we went to get our growth ultrasound and to have a BPP (Bio Physical Profile). I am always amazed at how much the babies have grown! And what we can see with the ultrasound!
We got some really cool pics:
The biggest news was how muh the girls have grown!!
Baby A is estimated at 6lbs4oz
Baby B is estimated at 5lbs14oz!!!
They are huge!!
There were some minor 'concerns' on the MFM side, but really it seems they are just changes in 'standards'. Apparently here in NY "everybody who uses IVF gets a inutero echo". Why? No one can really tell us, but still they were concerned it had not been done yet. At this point it seems like it's just something to spend money on, but we will do whatever tests they want us to do so that we are the most informed. Also, despite numerous normal blood tests, the MFM is convinced that Wife has gestational diabetes. This is mostly due to how the girls are growing and the fact that there is 'more than the normal amount of amniotic fluid'. After saying several times 'the number one cause of increased amniotic fluid is gestational diabetes', she finally confessed that 'the number two reason is, no reason'. So she wrote for Wife to check her blood sugar four times a day so that we can catch her diabetes.
Wife was moderately concerned. I think she's terrified of developing gestational diabetes after everything she has gone through.
Before we left they decided they'd check her blood sugar. It was 66. At this point we had been at the doctors office 4 hours.
They asked:
'when was the last time you ate'.
'yesterday'.
'No lunch or even a snack?'
'We've been here all day! When could we have eaten?!'
'...'
We headed home, hungry, exhausted, excited about BIG BABIES!! We ate dinner at 1630 which gma was excited about and then we took a nap!
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