I went in for my six month OB/GYN appointment on September 10th. We had our 25 week ultrasound. The technician told us the baby was growing really well. The anatomy looked great, and we were told she was big for her age. We listened to the heart beat, and had our questions answered by the nurse.
We had a couple of hours to burn before our next appointment for the 3-D ultrasound. We went to Toys-R-Us to get our niece her birthday present, and get some games for my DS. We then went and got some juice smoothies from Cold Stone, and sat in the Women's Center parking lot of IHC-Murray while we waited for our appointment time.
We are apart of a study, and the researchers were giving us a courtesy 3-D ultrasound through Maternal Fetal Medicine. The technician looked concerned. She called in a paraneonatologist. The amniotic fluid was low. The doctor ran further tests, namely a Doppler, which looks at the blood flow into the placenta. The blood flow was absent. The baby was very small, and was classified as Growth Restricted. The doctor explained to us she was admitting us to watch the baby. I would have to have steroid injections to mature the baby's lungs, and it was a possibility the baby would be delivered that weekend.
We saw at least four different doctors over the course of the evening. We were given the "hard numbers" of our situation. 60% of babies born at 25 weeks survived. Of those babies 65% of them suffered from blindness, deafness, and some form of retardation.
I was given the injections over forty-eight hours. The baby was monitored, and after four days at the hospital we were released. I was to be on bed rest until the delivery.
In the end we were left with a big question: How could something this serious have been missed? The Answer: The technician was in a hurry and had failed to look at the fluid level, and the cord because it had been checked eight weeks earlier.
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