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Rosie and I made it back to Detroit. We flew in Tuesday evening as planned, although there was a bit of drama before we got onto the plane.

On Monday, we went for the final UCSF ultrasound to determine lung growth and measure the amount of amniotic fluid that Rosie had. Unfortunately there was still not any amniotic which caused two issues. The first issue is that this causes baby to be positioned very far down in the uterus. therefore the doctors were unable to take the head measurements required to calculate the LHR value, compare the new LHR ratio to the original value, and determine how much lung growth is present. The other issue is that there is a lot of risk to the pregnancy without any amniotic fluid. The tests today confirmed this risk, and I will write more about this in the next posting.

Before the doctors would let us fly home, Rosie had to go have a thorough exam from the doctors in labor & delivery in the UCSF hospital. This showed that we were not at an immediate risk to go into labor, the doctors allowed us to return.

Rosie had been feeling some mild contractions ever since the first procedure, however we did not know they were contractions until after we got to Detroit and visited U of M. The sensation that she was feeling had slightly increased in frequency Tuesday. Once we landed in Detroit we decided to go to U of M and make sure nothing had changed since the exam at UCSF Monday night. U of M performed some more thorough testing and determined that there was a high probablility Rosie would not go into labor for the next two weeks. U of M also confirmed that the sensations she was feeling were contractions, but they were nothing to be concerned about for now.

We finally got back home and into our own bed at about 3:30am Wednesday morning, and did it ever feel good to be back home again.