Bad Day

I took Randi back into the hospital today to be admitted for the duration. Last night things got pretty emotional around our house, and Randi started to have shortness of breathe and constant, strong contractions. The contractions continued through the night and into the morning. We arrived at Labor and Delivery early, got a room and did not wait for the nurses to set us up on the fetal heart rate monitors. We did it ourselves. The babies looked stable on the heart rate monitors. They blew two liters of IV fluids into her in 3 hours to hyper hydrate her and aid in stopping the contractions.

Not long after that Randi had another contraction. What was different about this one was that on the down side of the contraction, Wyatt's heart rate dropped from its normal 120-160 bpm to 79 bpm. It stayed down for a while before coming back up. This could be a normal variable that could come at any time, but it could be a late deceleration which can be extremely dangerous. Whatever it was, it got the nurse down to the room quick. Randi and her watched to make sure that it was not a repetitive pattern after contractions. Per doctors orders Randi is now on contiuous monitoring and we have not seen another dip like that.

The tightness in Randi's chest continued to persist, and her oxygen saturation levels began to dip below 90%. This can lead to pulmonary edema, or fluid in the lungs. They hooked her up to an oxygen cannula to help resolve the problem and all but discontinued IV fluids. The forced oxygen had some positive affect but was not working fast enough. Finally, the nurse checked her lungs and she was having pulmonary edema in her upper right lung. They took it a step further by injecting Lasix to help her get rid of some of the fluid buildup. Basically, undoing the effects of the IV fluids. We are waiting for the doctor to come in this evening after his clinic hours for further direction. I am not very concerned if they come now or seven days from now, as long as we can get everyone home safely.