Good Girls

I am pleased to report that the girls cooperated with their monitoring this morning.  Each shift, a nurse places two ultrasonic dopplers on my belly to trace the babies’ heartbeats.  Ideally, the doctors want to see 20-30 minutes of two consistent heartbeats.  However, because the girls are still so little and they have a relatively large space to move around in, it’s often difficult for the doppler monitors to get a continuous heartbeat on one baby, let alone two.  To make matters worse, the girls apparently aren’t keen on being monitored; they kick the dopplers or squirm around even more than normal as soon as they detect they are being monitored.  A week or so ago, the girls were moving around so much, and the nurse was getting more and more frustrated, that I actually had Jim raise his voice and demand that the girls sit still, hoping that they would listen to their father J  However, it didn’t work – they kept on wiggling.   I can only hope that this tendency doesn’t bode poorly for their cooperative skills later in life!  However, today, the girls were docile and consented to let their heartbeats be tracked for the time necessary.  I was a proud mama!