34w1d

Today's news was all good. Both babies looked good on the BPP and NST. Baby B's doppler is still elevated at cord insertion, but looked normal at mid cord. I was right that mid cord was elevated last week, so it was good that it looked good today. That said, they are both breathing and moving so much now that it is getting hard for them to get an accurate reading on the dopplers. However, as the doctor we saw today pointed out, babies moving and breathing too much to get good dopplers is a great sign!

In other news, I got my flu shot and refused the Group B strep test (I'm having a c-section and have almost zero chance of going into labor... no real need for it). I've found that, lately, I'm a bad patient. I refuse to undress at the Bellevue office because I KNOW that they aren't going to be checking my cervix and it's a waste of time to undress. And, now, I'm turning down routine medical testing. I'm just too old, too cranky, and too pregnant to waste my time on stupid crap.

I have the growth scan/BPP/NST on Wednesday. I have to say that I don't think we're going to be delivering this week, despite Dr. Wall's relative certainty that we will. I could be wrong, but the dopplers have been stable enough that I don't think that we're going to see dramatically reduced growth. I still will fast and go off the Heparin/baby aspirin like he asked me to, just in case, but I don't really expect to have babies this week. In fact, I'm beginning to think that Baby B is just toying with us and that I'm going to be pregnant until the end of time!

Last but not least, I think that we're going to change Sophia's middle name. I've been up one side and down the other of this in my head, and I talked to Robert about it today, so we'll see. But, I want to go with a middle name for her that is more meaningful and honors someone I miss very much.