This morning we went to see the MFM specialist at Emory for our growth scan and biophysical profile. We are super pleased with her growth and weight (although it would be nice if she was bigger). She currently weighs 587 grams (1 lb 4 oz) and is averaging 24 weeks. An average 27 week baby weighs 1055 grams (2 lb 5 oz), so obviously she is very small (less than the 5th%). One way to look at it is that she is about 3 weeks and 1 day behind on her growth. Her growth was almost 3 weeks behind at 24 weeks, so we haven't lost too much time between 24 and 27 weeks. We will continue to do growth scans every 3 weeks, so we're hoping for big growth (inside the womb!!) in the next three weeks.
The next thing they did was the biophysical profile test. The biophysical test is an ultrasound basically consisting of five parts. Each of the five components — body movements, muscle tone, breathing movements, amniotic fluid, and heartbeat — is assigned a score of either 0 (abnormal) or 2 (normal). These scores are added up for a total score ranging from 0 to 10. In general, a total score of 8 or 10 is normal, 6 is considered borderline, and below 6 is worrisome. If everything is perfect on the ultrasound part, you don't have to do the heartrate evaluation. Our numbers were perfect, so we didn't have to sit around longer for the heart rate evaluation, so 8/8 for us! Woo hoo!
We want to keep up this growth and numbers on our biophysical profile tests. I thought we would have a break from doctors for a couple of weeks, but it looks like we'll be doing a weekly biophysical profile test next week and then we will start twice weekly (every Monday and Thursday) after that.
Of course, we want to keep her inside until 37 weeks, so let's hope for the best. Also an important date to keep in mind is that Brad takes his radiology board exam sometime the week of May 21st. I will be 36 weeks pregnant then (hopefully!). We really would like to have the baby AFTER his exam! :
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