Saturday Scare

Yesterday, I said that no news is good news; today, there’s news.

After the procedure, the doctors told us to keep an eye out for a handful of things that could give us concerns. This included contractions, bleeding, and leaking fluids. Thankfully, the first two haven’t been an issue at all. But today, there’s been some leaking. The concern with that is that one of the amniotic sacs could have been damaged during surgery. Another possibility is pre-term labor – leaking could indicate that Lisa’s water broke. It wasn’t a tremendous amount of fluid, so we went back-and-forth about whether to go into the hospital.

Finally, this afternoon, we decided that we should call the nurse at the Fetal Care Center. She told us to go into the University (of Cincinnati) Hospital. While there, Lisa was monitored to ensure that she wasn’t having any contractions. Praise God, she wasn’t.

She was also checked to see whether the sacs and membrane were intact. They still were, so that was a huge relief, too. They figured it was just a little fluid that isn’t anything to worry about. The nurse then checked for the heartbeats. She searched for twin A’s for about (an eternal) 45 seconds or so… before she finally found it. What a blessing to know that she was okay! Twin B was much easier to find, and we could hear that she was moving a TON (as she always seems to do at the doctor’s office). =)

To be extra sure that things were fine, they did a very abbreviated ultrasound. They saw both babies moving around, and it also looked like the amniotic fluid level in each is about the same! That was absolutely awesome to see, so we praise God for that good news, too.

[Sigh] If nothing else, it’s a reminder that we’re not in the clear. While we celebrate good news – including the (apparently) successful surgery and good results from tonight’s unplanned hospital visit – we also know that we have (we hope) 8-12 weeks on pins and needles until our little girls are born. So we wait and pray, wait and pray…

Thanks to everyone – far and near, well-loved friends and folks we haven’t even met – who are praying for us. God is giving us strength and peace through all this – even during scares like tonight. God is good, all the time.

~Jeff