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Day 5
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…
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Day 4 – Date Night
We’ve officially crossed into the 28th week of pregnancy and with it leapt into the third trimester, and not a moment too soon. The girls scored an 8 out of 8 on their BPP tests, routinely registered healthy heart beats and reassuringly katate’d the organs of their mother throughout the day. However, Baby C’s diastolic…
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Days 2 and 3
Gestational age: 27 weeks +5 days/+6 days Two more days down in sterile Oz! We have to say this now: Learning that you – you – have navigated here, have read this, and are here at this moment at sea… It is more than words can say. We see a lattice of lighthouses across the…
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How We Got Here
(Note: This post has a lot of terminology that was new to us! If you’d like to take a look at our Glossary, see here.) In early January, a routine monitoring session with our MFM doctor, Dr. Hayes, surfaced an issue with Baby C’s umbilical blood flow. Dr. Hayes had ordered a Doppler ultrasound to…
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Hello, World
Dear Family and Friends and Those Who Gratefully Blur That Line, We have created this shared journal as a home for news on what’s happening with our twins, with Meghan’s hospital stay, and – ultimately – with the girls’ happy welcome to the world. Some of you have already hitched your wagon to this star.…
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Day 1.5
Meghan’s first full hospital day. As expected, it’s a wall-to-wall syllabus of consultations, tests, and monitoring sessions. The medical team is committed to designing a treatment plan that is both comprehensive and measured. The day is a revolving door, but it’s the first, and every new conversation is a puzzle taking shape. By the numbers!…
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Quick Read: The Brief and Current Stats
(Note: This post has a lot of terminology that was new to us! If you’d like to take a look at our Glossary, see here.) The Brief In summary: Our girls, Baby B and Baby C, are growing at different rates, which shouldn’t happen with identical twins. Baby C’s growth, in particular, is worrying: She…
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Glossary
Aurora BayCare Medical Center (Green Bay, WI): The hospital where Meghan and the girls are now, and where the girls will be delivered. Baby A: Lucy, self-designated Baby B: Who the medical team is referring to as “Baby A” Baby C: Who the medical team is referring to as “Baby B” BPP: Biophysical Profile, a…
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