Appointments, Appointments, and more Appointments

Last week was a full week of baby appointments and one appointment for Carter. On Wed., I went in for my normal baby appt., and all was well. The heartbeats were still strong and I am measuring 2-3 wks ahead (which is where I am supposed to be). My doctor also gave me my first round of steriod shots, in the hopes of helping the girls lungs should they decide to come early. It was not that bad, just a little shot in the butt. Then I had to go back on Thurs to get another round of steriods.

Last appt for me was on Friday when we went back to the Specialist in Joplin for him to look at Bailey's kidney again as well as her bladder. The appt went well, the girls looks good and are continuing to grow. Kennedy weighs 4lbs 9ozs and Bailey weighs 5lbs 9ozs, so as you can see we may or may not have some preemies on our hands. Anyway, Bailey's kidney is still big, but not big enough that he was going to send us in today or anything. They also think that she has some sort of membrane (vesticle?) in her bladder that is not allowing her right kidney to drain. Not really sure what a vesticle is, but when she comes out they will do ultrasounds and then surgery to fix it. Again nothing that is life threatening or that has to be done immediately after delivery. So, we are still in the same spot we were before, just waiting on them to get here and to determine when and what has to be done then.

Carter did have one appt last week, his follow up with the ENT since his tubes fell out of his ears. I was really hoping that we would go and there would be no fluid or anything in his ears, especially because he had been having a runny nose. Anyway, it was a blessing, there was no fluid and everything looked great. The doctor doesn't have to see him back unless he starts having issues again. Pray that as we go through the winter season that he will not start getting ear infections again.