I am on my 6th day here. Another woman went into labor last night and was transferred out of the unit, so I got to move to her former room -- it's bigger and has a different view, facing due west toward downtown. I can see a slice of the Puget Sound with West Seattle behind it. If the clouds clear before I get out of here, I might get to see a sunset, too! Since the rooms are all bigger on this side of the unit, I am noticing it's a little busier, too. Or maybe that's because my nurse left the door to the room open today.
Last evening it snowed about 2" or so, but it warmed up overnight and the streets (that I can see) are clear. There is still some white on rooftops and grass, but it'll be gone soon. This sure has been a weird winter!
BabyJ continues to be a model patient: super active with a steady strong heartrate and seemingly content to stay in the womb. My blood pressure is holding steady around 105/60 - 110/70, and the Braxton-Hicks contractions seem to be staying just that -- warm-ups for what is to come. I hardly notice them, and would probably not even know I'm having them if I hadn't learned how to read the data on the monitor.
What comes next all depends on how BabyJ responds to me laying around on her behalf. I suspect I'll have blood flow ultrasounds twice this week and then another one the following Tuesday (exactly 2 weeks after the one where they placed her in the 2nd %), at which time they will measure her size and see how much she's grown. We'll see our doctor on rounds tomorrow morning and hopefully get a feel for her thoughts specifically on what next week might bring. Stay tuned!
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