Non-Stress Test

     Last week I had my 34 week appointment with an associate of my doctor. He was surprised that I hadn't gotten a non-stress test yet since I have high blood pressure. The non-stress test is where you sit and get monitors strapped to your stomach and they listen to the babies heart beat for twenty minutes (minimum) consecutively and they need to see that his heart rate increases by ten beats for fifteen seconds two different times in the twenty minutes. Dr. McCarty sent me to the hospital to get one right then no there and said my doctor would call me the next week to see what she wanted me to do. 

     A test that was supposed to take 20-30 minutes took us 1.5 hours! Furrby would just not cooperate and the poor nurse ended up holding the monitor on my stomach for most of the time. My blood pressure was off a little too. Well, that was last Friday and today I got a call from my doctor who wanted me to go get another non-stress test tonight. Charl and I got into the car and headed to Lebanon. We were there another 1.5 hours! This time they kept checking my blood pressure, listening to my heart, checking my swelling, reflexes and oxygen levels. They even had to get the on call doctor to release me before leaving. This concerned me a little but Furrby is fine and that is what matters to me.

     My doctor did mention that she may be taking Furrby early. She said as much as a few weeks early! Right now we are 5.5 weeks from our due date so that could be just a couple of weeks. She said we will talk about it on Thursday when I'm in for my next appointment. Who knows, we my be meeting our little man sooner than we thought. This is exciting and terrifying at the same time!