The Scare

So the day after I wrote my last post we had our first big scare. I woke up around 4 pm after a 12 hour shift at the hospital. I am talking to Jade and Jora  to see how their day was, then I ask Jade about the babies. Jaycee was doing great but she really hadn't felt anything from the twins. I casually ask her when was the last time she felt them kick. "oh sometime yesterday!" Okay you gotta be freakin kidding me really? Okay Jade here is some coffee and some sugar lets get those babies moving. After a long time of nothing it is time to 

call the doctors. We were told to go to labor and delivery to get things checked out.

 I am trying to hold it together and not let Jade know how scared I am for she needs my strength. But as we are sitting in the waiting room I burst into tears. Has all our fears been realized? Has the babies life line turned into a double edged sword, severing the link to the life it gives? I step outside to collect myself. When I come back in I am so proud of her as she is sitting there so sure of everything. She tells me Mom it will be okay I know they are fine. She has faith in God and her little miracles. She just knows these babies are meant to be. She asks me to buy her a package of starburst, right now I will deny her nothing. I get her a package then she instantly pops a pink strawberry one in her mouth. Within 5 minutes she goes awwhh the babies like the candy. My spirits soar she felt a movement. My tears start to flow again but this time it is from relief!!

We finally get a room and the RN puts a doppler on Jades belly. Baby "A" heart rate is 154 and baby "B" heart rate is 146. Oh another sigh of relief. Jade is then ushered back for an ultrasound. A feeling of doom settled back over me when I learned the growth discordance between the babies had grown. They are now a week apart in size. I feel that knowledge is power so I hit the internet running. I contacted different organizations trying to get information specific to MoMo twins. They are so rare that the info you find is on MoDi twins and is hard to correlate to MoMos. 

I have accumulated many questions to ask Jades Peri at our anatomy and physiology ultrasound on the 15th. At this appointment we get to meet one of the other Perinatologist of Kaiser Roseville. When the tech is done Doc comes in and we are again are super impressed. He answered 8 of the 10 questions before I even asked them. He also gave us more information. It feels very good leaving a doctors appointment feeling fully informed and we are grateful. It feels safe to be putting our trust in these doctors because they truly have these little babies lives in their hands. So here is the update on the babies:

They are doing amazing.
Baby A is 10 oz(283grams) in size which is 50th percentile for gestation age
Baby B is 7 oz(198 grams) in size which is 25th percentile for gestation age
Their hearts, Kidneys, lungs and brains are all as they should be in fact all their vitals organs are. The babies have no noted malformations.  The  blood flow through the cords is perfect with no restrictions. There is still about a week size difference between them BUT doc said no need to worry there are no indications of problems.

Oh yeah and they are still girl.....


Next appointment is Dec 6th see you then!!

20 weeks