You see that last post? Throw it out the window...

Cheyenne & I went to our weekly Friday OB appointment on the 15th where we had an ultrasound and found out that the baby is still breech and still on the lower side of amniotic fluid at that time with our doctors advice it was decided that we would have a February 12th c-section, hence the last post. Now on that day the amniotic fluid level was at an 8. The scale goes 0-25 with anything lower than a 5 being very very low and cause for concern, a 10 being average and anything above 20 being way too high and cause for concern. My fluid has been fluctuating between 6-8ish...not so low that anyone was freaking out but defiantly cause for extra attention to be paid.
On Monday the 18th we had another NST appointment at St Vincent to make sure that even though the fluid was low our baby was doing alright. The good news is that the test showed a happy healthy 6 pound baby with a strong heartbeat, functioning kidneys, perfect practice breathing, and a full head of hair who it seems would be totally healthy if born today. The bad news is that my amniotic fluid went from an 8 on Friday down to a 4 on Monday with no rhyme or reason.
Because the fluid number had dipped below 5 and because it had taken such a dramatic turn in such a short amount of time my doctor was called and she insisted that i be admitted and put on an IV to try and get my levels up and we were told that there was a chance we would have the c-section that day! EEK! We weren't thinking that the peanut was coming for another month!
I got a birthing suite at St Vincents and it's pretty nice...for a hospital and the nursing staff are all very sweet ladies but again...it's the damn hospital. The IV of course drove me totally insane (no shock to anyone that knows how i deal with needles) and being put to bed at 4:00pm drove me insane (no shock to anyone that knows how i deal with boredom).
Today at 8:30am we had another ultrasound which showed that the fluid level had jumped up to a 9 (the highest it's been) and it seemed that the IV had done it's job. After the ultrasound i was once again put on the monitors and once again the baby's heartbeat was perfect and strong and just what they wanted to see. At 12:30pm we had yet another ultrasound to check for four key things that show the condition of the baby, all 4 things were found and were perfect however, the fluid level had dipped back down from a 9 to a 6.
Since the doctors cant figure out why my levels keep dipping low they have me here for yet another night of fluids, rest, and monitoring. Tomorrow morning I get ANOTHER ultrasound (I've become an expert at deciphering them by now) and if the fluid levels are 8 or above I'll most likely be sent home for 7-10 days of bed rest after which I'll have the c-section (I am 7-10 days from full term) if the number is a 6 or 7 then they will do a couple of more tests and choose which is healthier - keeping me on bed rest for the week to give the baby another week of development and get it to the official full term date, or to go ahead and perform the c-section because of the fluid levels failing to improve.
Our hope is that we get that 7-10 days but we're a bit excited by the idea of finally getting to see this little trouble maker.
Wish us luck!