I will be 36 weeks tomorrow. Yesterday I went in for my weekly appointment and an ultrasound that had been scheduled for quite some time. My BP was REALLY high when I got there (150/95..its usually around 115/75) but my urine looked good.
We did my ultrasound and the tech couldn't see any fluid around the baby. I feel pretty confident that their low fluid conclusion was appropriate..the tech dug around and put me in all kinds of different positions looking around the baby for fluid, but couldn't find any pockets of fluid.
So my Midwife had me do a NST and LO failed miserably. I was on the monitor for 45 minutes. LO was moving around quite a bit, but he wasn't getting the spikes in his heart rate. I was also having contractions every ten to fifteen minutes. So I ended up going to L&D to be monitored. My BP came back down to normal and they gave me a bag and a half of fluid. My Midwife wants me to come back in today for a follow up u/s and NST. She mentioned though that if my fluid is still low after the IVs, we're going to need to induce.
I trust my midwife completely on this. If she feels the need to induce I'll go with it because I truly feels that she has mine and LO's best interest in mind.
However, if she wants to go ahead and induce, I want to request that they give me until Monday or Tuesday. I'll offer to come in for an IV every day if they want. But I'd like for them to give me steroids to help LO's lungs and let me take them for a few days before we induce, and I'd like a few days to get MY things in order before we come back for an induction.
Does this sound like a reasonable request? More than anything I'm concerned that LO isn't ready to come, and I want to give him more time to develop his lungs and be ready for the outside world..
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Thats good to know. I'm not sure what the policy on it in my practice is. Thank you!
Aren't they also able to test amniotic fluid for lung maturity (assuming they can get any fluid for the testing, if you're really low), to give you a better idea of how LO's lungs are doing?
Good luck! Sounds like you are doing everything you can - asking questions and making the best decision you can based on the circumstances. That's all anyone can ask of a mother...
Your need to get things in order do not trump the need to get babe out safely, IMO.
Steroids at 36w? Not necessary (though I am no expert).
I'd get induced at my MW's suggestion.