1 day away from 34 weeks

One of the initial goals that the nurse put up on the whiteboard on Amanda's room was to make it to 34 weeks. On Saturday we will hit that milestone and keep on going past it. If you would have asked us on Tuesday or Wednesday of this week when we thought we would have BGK we would have guessed it would be by this weekend. Now it appears that we'll make it at least into next week. It is such a conflicting feeling for us as we are so ready to be done with staying here away from Avery and Ryan and so ready to move onto the next steps but we also realize the next steps will be made easier by staying in here longer. The more time she stays inside then the better she'll be able to handle whatever is in store.

Amanda's amniotic fluid levels have held up around the 8-9cm level the past couple of days. The doctors chose to cut back on one of the medications in case that was negatively affecting the fluid levels. The past couple days during our echocardiograms we have seen a couple blips of ventricular tachycardia that we had not seen in a couple of weeks. Although very short, it was alarming in that we had not seen since our first week here. As a result they have bumped the beta blockers dosage back up to what it was previously. We did not see any VT in today's echo and the fluid was at almost 9 so we're stuck here a little longer.

Some good news came from Amanda's cardiologist today. The monitoring of Amanda's heart has shown great results and has not had any bad effects from the medicines so he has cut out the nonstop monitoring wires she has had on since we arrived. This was a HUGE relief for her to get that off.

Tonight will be dinner and a movie here at the hospital for us with the kids. They are missing Mommy a ton and are very much looking forward to spending a good chunk of time with her today.

- Mark