32 Week Appointments

Our big 32 week appointment was on Thursday, July 29.  We had a non-stress test, an appointment with the Maternal Fetal Medicine doc - which included another level 2 ultrasound, and we met the new midwife in our OB practice.  Highlights from the appointment as follows:

• Non-stress test was considered to be 'reactive', which is what they are looking for.  That is a good thing. 
• Everything looked good in the ultrasound, including size and condition of the placenta, blood flow through the umbilical cord, level of amniotic fluid, Bean's movement and practice breathing.  She was estimated to be 4 lbs, 3 oz. (which is exactly how much Gracie weighed 363 days earlier), which put her in the 51st percentile for overall growth.  The girl that did this ultrasound is the one who did the one with the measurements that put her estimated size in the 39th percentile 8 weeks ago; a different person did the scan 4 weeks ago that had Bean's estimated size in the 61st percentile.  I am inclined to think that she is probably somewhere around the 50th percentile right now.  
• We will continued to have biophysical profile ultrasounds once a week and non-stress tests twice a week.  
• We will see the Maternal Fetal Medicine doctor one more time, at 36 weeks, and that will be it unless a problem creeps up.  

We went yesterday for this week's BPP ultrasound, another non-stress test and a midwife appointment. 

• This particular ultrasound did not measure growth, but looked at Bean's muscle tone, movement, practice breathing and the amount of amniotic fluid.  It also looked at the health (not size) of the placenta.  
• The non-stress test was again considered to be reactive, which means that Bean demonstrated heart rate elevations of at least 15 beats per minute that were sustained for at least 15 seconds.   
• All was well with the midwife appointment - at this point everything is as it should be.

We will go again on Friday 8/6 for another non-stress test.