A New Day

The sun is out, the birds are chirping. Things are looking a lot better in L&D Room 3. The tightness in Randi's chest is gone and her fever has broken. Both babies are looking good on the heart rate monitors. No more late deceleration variables in Wyatt, and they both have been active this morning. Both babies were also running elevated heart rates last night because of Randi's fever. That also has subsided. In order to make sure that her heart was in good working order, Randi pushed to get an echo done this morning. The echo came back well within the normal range, but a cardiologist will take a look at it to be sure. There is some leaking in her valves, but that could well be from the large expanse of blood in her body from the twin pregnancy.

Randi is still on forced oxygen because her O2 saturation levels in her blood keep dipping down below 92%. She is also continuing antibiotics to K.O. any bacterial infection that may be present. We are planning to see the perinatologist some time today, but he is making rounds at three hospitals, so it may be late this afternoon. When he does get here, he will perform an ultrasound on the babies to check their umbilical cord blood flow. Hopefully, we'll get a game plan for delivery, especially since it doesn't appear Randi can tolerate the fluids.

Update: Todd drafted the above post, but I wanted to let everyone know I am feeling a hundred times better than yesterday. Other than a little shortness of breath and still being on the oxygen I am almost back to normal. Thanks so much for all of your prayers. I have never felt as bad in my life as I did yesterday and I was very scared. It was very comforting for me to know that you all were out there praying.