Ultrasound Day

Today we had another one of our weekly ultrasounds.  It was funny to watch Travis hobble down the hallway while he tried to keep up with the hospital transporter who was pushing me in the wheelchair.  He was totally eating our dust. 


The ultrasound we have today is known as a biophysical profile.  It is like any other ultrasound, but they're looking for different things. In recent ultrasounds they have been measuring sizes of femurs and heads and verifying that the babies are firstly, the same size, and secondly, an appropriate size for their gestational age. In this one, they watch them move, and verify that they are wiggling in appropriate manners. It's kind of odd, because it's a test -- for example, they have to do "practice breathing motions" (where they move the amniotic fluid in and out of their lungs) for 30 seconds continuously -- but of course since this practice breathing is something that they do at random, and they don't know that we're measuring them, they might stop after 25 seconds. So the ultrasound technician pokes me in the belly with the ultrasound probe to stimulate them and says "come on baby keep doing it". Lilly was the only one who showed any practice breathing today.  Way to go Lilly!