Yesterdays transfusion itself went really well. She was definitely anaemic and needed it. Dr was very pleased he was able to get a line into the umbilical cord rather than into a vessel that she wont use after she is born.
Night on the CTG...omg that was tough! A)I am not a back sleeper and of course you have to stay on your back to get good contact on a little person. B) it was birthing unit
Some of those women are LOUD...one went on for over 2 hours!!! and C) Missy wanted to play catch me if you can so of course it alarmed all night long and i got probably 1 hours sleep!Had my follow up scan this morning - basically give my Dr a baseline for post transfusion dopplers (even though they arent reliable) and to check the site where he put the needle in. Everything looked fine. No worries about prom because he didnt even need to go into the sac...right through the placenta in the the cord.
Sadly it looks like we will be back for another in a week or 2 - most probably a week. My antibodies them selves have taken off like a wildfire and that was before he stuck the big old needle right through the placenta. So in thinking i will be 30 weeks next week and he probably wouldn't even transfuse after 32 weeks we have roughly 2 weeks to go - if things carry on as he expects!
So it was a bit of a mixed bag but the transfusion went well and she is still baking away.
FWIW, on Monday her estimated weight was 1475g
This pic was meant to show the excellent trace after the IUT...think i need to figure out the camera on the laptop ;-)
And a lovely (not) fat pregnant and tired pic (well i guess i could say under the influence of drugs too)
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