Mang's Anatomy

I am at the University of Washington Hospital, which is a teaching hospital, just like Seattle Grace on Grey's Anatomy. Which means I have a surplus of medical students, interns, residents, attendings and doctors. Everytime a group of these kids come in, it takes everything I have not to ask them to pick which Grey's character they are, so I can figure out the pecking order around here. Yeah, I'm bored and living as though I am on Grey's. Sad, but it keeps me somewhat entertained!

So far I have figured out I have a Bailey, although she's got the personality and bedside manor of Yang. Gosh I really am boring those of you who don't watch Grey's and have no idea what in the world I am talking about! So my Bailey is a blonde haired version. She, like Yang is determined to find something wrong with me, even though I am here for monitoring and everything looks good. She has run blood tests to make sure I am not having high blood pressure issues, changed all of my medications for my diabetes because of 2 high numbers, when I have been perfect the rest of the time. I think she thinks I am wasting bed space, my case is too boring for her. I have a feeling she and I are going to have a couple of go arounds in the near future. She needs to remember that I am a smart woman and not some stupid knocked up girl laying here not knowing what I am doing. Good thing MY doctor is back tomorrow- he tells me everything looks fine and is normal for where I am at this stage of my pregnancy. With Bailey this morning came a girl who I guess would be Izzie. She seemed nice and was able to answer my questions person to person not "Me Doctor- You Dumb Knocked Up Girl" =)

On my first day here I met my version of Lexi, new med student, not really confident and pretty green. She was nice enough, but seemed really young. Guess that happens when you get older! I think she may have a hint of dorky first season George in her also.

Sadly, I have yet to meet a McSteamy or McDreamy. Maybe that's ok, cause I don't know if I would want to talk about my vajay-jay with a hottie.

So far that's all I have been able to identify. Most of my contact has been with my nurses who have been absolutely wonderful to me. They even let me sleep most of the night with the exception of my 3am wake up to check vitals. I can deal with that.

I am being monitored twice a day for about 20 minutes at a time. Our little man is happy, content and mostly stays on the monitor. Our little girl is going to be a handful! She still has the occasional heart drop, nothing too drastic, but still the reason that we are here. She seems to like the attention from the nurses because she likes to swim away from the monitor and be chased. As of now they both look great on the monitors and we are on schedule for a Friday Delivery. Bailey and Izzie thought I was scheduled for an amnio Thursday to check their lungs to make sure they are mature- I will hopefully get that confirmed tomorrow from my doc. If that shows that lungs aren't ready we will wait a few more days before they are evicted. But if they look good we will have the green light for Friday! In less than a week we will become a family of 5!!

The amnio doesn't scare me, I had one with Maddie and it wasn't too bad. It's the thought of my babies needing NICU time (which is a slight possibility since they are still technically a month early) I am praying that they are healthy enough to come home with us.

Keep thinking those happy thoughts for us! I truly believe they are working!

We almost made it without a hospital stay....

First off let me start by saying that I am fine and the babies are both fine. Really, we are! Monday night I slipped on a cord in the living room, twisted my ankle and knee and took a bit of a spill. I landed on my hands and knees but managed to protect my belly and it's precious cargo. I had Darin call Labor and Delivery (L&D) to let them know I took a stupid tumble and to see what we should watch out for just in case. They said because it was twins they wanted us to come in and monitor us to be on the safe side. So at 10pm we headed out the door with a quick stop to meet my mom to grab Maddie. By 11:15 I was hooked up to the fetal monitors. Long story short, Baby B was having some very gradual not too serious heart decels. They admitted me to keep an eye on things to make sure that I didn't accidentally tear her placenta from the Uterine wall. My doctor came in and told me that I wouldn't be leaving here pregnant and would probably be delivering late next week unless something bad happened. I was kept on 24/7 monitoring for a couple of days and then it was decided that both babies looked good and would only be monitored twice a day, but they still wanted me here- better safe than sorry.

So here I sit, in the EXACT same room I sat for 5 weeks waiting for Maddie to finish baking. Not much has changed in room 625. =) I have more freedom this time around and am able to get up to get my own snacks and walk around if I need to. So it's not too bad! The worst part has been being away from Maddie! She's such a trooper tho! For the first day she didn't want to talk to me on the phone because it made her sad, but once she got here and saw that I was ok she warmed up and has been a good sport.

The countdown is on and my delivery has been scheduled for next Friday, Oct 16th. It's a week earlier than my own personal goal, but I trust my medical team. They have mentioned doing an amnio to check lung development but they haven't said for sure if they are going to. I will be 35 weeks 5 days at that point. I have already carried these two longer than Maddie and I am so thankful for that!

My mom brought me her laptop today so I feel like I am in touch with the real world again!! I really am addicted to the internet and probably should seek some sort of 12 step program for it, as I have discovered by not having a computer for these last few days. Oh, and I am totally missing my DVR and being able to pause, fast forward and rewind tv! At least I have a real remote and not just the one attached to my be that you have to go thru every channel to get back to channel 4. =)

We would appreciate your prayers to keep these two happy and healthy and baking as long as possible! I will update as I have any news to report- since I have a little time on my hands these days!