I can't sleep. I woke up and I'm literally wide awake. Yesterday, was an interesting day. The baby gets monitored once a day. The entail hooking me up to a monitor for 20 minutes. The monitor measures the baby's heartbeat, and whether or not I'm contracting. The nurse hooked me up to the monitor around 10 am as usual, and left the room. They always ask me if I'd like them to turn the volume down, but I enjoy hearing his heartbeat. Since I listen to the heartbeat on a regular basis I could tell something just didn't sound quite right this morning. The nurse came in shortly after, and also thought something wasn't quite right. His heartbeat was a bit off. He was having something call a Premature ventricular contractions (PVC) or pre-mature beat. An on call resident was called in to also listen to the heartbeat and he confirmed what the nurse thought it was. They were both reassuring that I shouldn't worry to much, it happens often in baby's and 99% of the time goes away on it own before the baby is born. However, just to make sure they ordered an ultrasound right away, and I mean right away. I was getting an ultrasound with in 5 minutes. The positive side of being in the hospital.
I had just had an ultrasound 2 days ago and everything looked good. The baby was breech, but otherwise everything looked good. He had been breech for the last couple weeks, and I'm having a c-section anyway so it really doesn't matter. During the ultrasound the did what's called a bio-physical profile where they The BPP measures your baby's heart rate, muscle tone, movement, breathing, and the amount of amniotic fluid around your baby. Everything looked perfect. They also check to make sure the umbilical cord was not wrapped around his neck, and that their were no blood vessels being compressed. Once again everything looked great. The PVC, however, was still there. The only thing that looked different from the sonogram 2 days ago was that he managed to find time to complete flip around. (he was now head down and instead of head up)
The think this sudden movement is what may have caused the irregular beat. It is also what might have cause the stomach ache I was having last night. :) The monitored him one more time in the afternoon and by the the premature beat was gone. Hopefully, it won't come back.
