BPP #2 (Week 35)

My second Biophysical Profile appointment was today, and thankfully was more encouraging than the last one!  My stats....

• Amniotic Fluid Volume (AFV)- 2 points 
• Gross Body Movements- 2 points
• Fetal Tone- 2 points
• Fetal Breathing Movements- wait for it...... 2 points!!!  

Ella Paityn had us holding our breath again.  The first 20 or so minutes of the ultrasound was all fun and games-- talking, laughing, marveling as she rolled around.  Then the last 10 minutes set in.  I kept asking the sonographer "How much time are we at?"  because she has 30 minutes to accomplish the things listed above.  And as time ticked away, I began to get more nervous.  She was again, showing some breathing movements, but nothing consistent enough (30 seconds) to count for her rating.  FINALLY, in the last 2 minutes Ella Paityn's diaphragm began expanding and contracting....we all held our breath and didn't talk about it, until Emily said "She did it!  She just scored her last 2 points!"  Needless to say, we cheered and clapped.  When we came out of the room, my nurse was standing there listening in and said, "We wondered who was in there cheering!  We thought they may have just found out the sex of the baby."  I laughed and responded with something about how breathing is slightly more exciting than gender :-)  

While it is pretty hard to get good ultrasound pictures this far along, we did get one cute partial face picture.  Having said that, it is only partial because our little girl loves to keep her hands near her face.  The "blob" on the left side of her face is her fist balled up.