Gestational age: 28 weeks +1 day
A fine day. This morning’s ultrasound (with special guest! famed nurse-charmer, Casey) revealed marginally improved Dopplers for Baby C; at this moment, marginal is monumental. The longer we can bear intermittent or sporadically absent diastolic flow in Baby C’s Dopplers (in other words, if umbilical blood flow is presenting as even semi-stable, and thus if her heart and brain are able to remain active and to grow), the longer she can continue to rehearse her big tap-dancing routine with her sister, Mama’s bladder their dance floor.
So here we are, our new three favorite words: One Day More.

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