L&D scare 05/19

As I had said before, Lyla has become quite the mover, so it was no surprise that I was confused over why I hadn't felt her at all yesterday or why I continued to not feel her at all today. I decided to get some lunch and see if that would wake her up. She loves fruit and never fails to move whenever I eat an apple, strawberries, cantelope, you name it...so I tried to eat some, thinking maybe it would get her moving. Still...nothing. Finally I decided to call my old Doctor, since their office is very close by, and thought maybe they could see me for a quick check with the doppler. He had told me that anytime I needed anything through the pregnancy or wanted to do anything there instead of making the drive to UAB, I was welcome to come and see them. After talking to the nurse, who relayed the message to the Doctor who was with patients, she came back to tell me that no, they could not just check with the doppler and that they advise that I go to Labor and Delivery at UAB. 

I called UAB's Maternal Fetal Medicine nurse and had to leave a voicemail. After an hour of waiting and hearing nothing back, I decided to just call Labor and Delivery myself. Luckily a very sweet nurse answered the phone and told me that yes, I did need to come in, and that they'd be expecting me. 

After Adam got home from work we gathered our things and got ready to head out. Fearing that there would be no heartbeat and they would be ready to induce, I packed a quick bag and gathered all of Lyla's things like her clothes, blankets and Lyla Bunny.

We get there in a flash, happy to see there was no traffic when we were expecting it. Right when I got settled, they hooked up the fetal monitors. My heart was beating so fast and the room was silent as I was listening to every movement, waiting to hear her precious heart.... and there it was! Beating loud; nice and strong. The nurse even commented about how strong her heart sounded. And of course began to laugh about how low she was lying. Every time the Dr. or nurses go to listen to her through either a doppler, ultrasound wand or a fetal monitor I let them know she's much lower than where they first place the device and none of them believe me and until their low and realize she really is how low I say she is! (Apparently they were all talking about it at the nurses station after because when the Dr. comes in later to do an ultrasound, she mentions she didn't believe them when they told her how low Lyla was). 

After about 45 minutes of monitoring her heart the Dr. came in and told us all looked well. Not a single abnormality was found in her heartbeat for the whole 45 minutes! Then we began an ultrasound, which wasn't the best because it wasn't one of their fancy machines we had become accustomed to seeing. From what she could see, there was lower fluid than usual, but nothing alarming, and she agreed that she wasn't moving much, especially compared to how other babies are at 30 weeks. Lyla was also curled up like usual, making it a little more difficult for the Dr. to measure her. But based on the measuring she could do, Lyla weighs 1lb 2oz's as of now! Granted the average weight of a baby at 30 weeks is about 3 lbs...but to us it just shows that she's growing and its nice to know she has broke the 1 pound mark!