Friday Night Bio-Ultrasound

The nurses have had a hard time locating Baby B since Wednesday so this evening the doctor ordered a bio-ultrasound. It looked liked a regular ultrasound to me, but it gave really close up views of respitory and heart function. And actually, baby B's lungs started working today or yesterday. They are not fully functional yet, but the ultrasound tech said that the way the lung rhythm was they had just started working and that was really cool to see. I had finished dinner about 30 seconds before going down for the ultrasound and during the ultrasound baby A was wasn't moving hardly at all. The tech was a little worried so she started examining him closer and when she focused in on his face you could see his mouth opening and shutting over and over again! He was drinking amniotic fluid (eating dinner)! It was so crazy!!

There is a problem with the boys, but I am not sure how serious it is yet. The doctor requested Broden come up tonight so he could meet with both of us tomorrow morning. Baby B has become stuck with his head jammed in the right lower corner of the uterus. His body runs along the bottom of the uterus which means he is no longer head up on the left side, but sideways and his back is firmly pushed up against my cervix. Baby A takes up the top 3/4's of the uterus and has a very large amount of fluid. Baby B has "a minimal to no fluid"-not good. His weight is only 2 ounces different than Baby A and his heart rate is good and healthy. He is not moving much, but moving enough. While Baby B runs along the floor of the uterus, Baby A's body is lying mostly on top of his brother's and the entire right side of the uterus which has left a large empty space on the left side of the uterus. This makes my belly very painful on the right side and is larger on the right side than on the left. It is protruding out to the right and is numb.