No Baby Yet

Today started out kind of crazy, although we didn't even know how close we were to having a baby until well after the excitement had passed. Because there is not any amniotic fluid, the doctors are very concerned about the umbilical cord being compressed when the baby rolls around. If this were to happen, the babies heart rate would drop significantly and the doctors would have to perform an emergency c-section. The doctors have told us that this would be the case if the heartrate was low for a span of five minutes.

At about 7:00am this morning while Rosie was sleeping Mason's heartrate dropped to 60 beats per minute (it is usually 120-180) for a little while and then came up to the 70-90 range for about 2-3 minutes. The doctors were preparing to do this c-section, and then the heartrate came back so they cancelled and let us continue as we have been for the last several days. When the doctors came in for their morning rounds at about 9:30 they told us what had happened and how close we had come to being parents today.

The rest of the day was rather uneventful, although everytime the baby moved and the monitor started reading Rosie's heartbeat instead of the babies we started to get worried. The doctors also said that even though the heartrate had dropped for a few minutes they were rather pleased with how Mason was doing as his heartbeat had a quick acceleration to it, which is more important to them than a few minutes of cord compression.

Hopefully tomorrow will be even less eventful. The doctors are even considering letting Rosie take a wheel chair ride through the hospital and outside in the garden area tomorrow if things continue to go as well as they did today. Of course there are no promises as they need to be convinced that the baby would be OK during this time, but it would really make Rosie's day go by faster if she could get out and get some fresh air.