Dear Friends,
Well, the roller coaster continues. We thought that things were great and we were hoping that Jennifer might even be going home today but that is not going to be the case. Since being taken off of the IV yesterday the AFI has dropped from 10 back down to 4.2-4.5.
What is even more disconcerting is that the doctors want to wait until tomorrow to put Jennifer back on an IV to “see what happens.” To me it is the height of negligence to play a wait and see attitude when a child’s life is in the balance. It would seem wise and prudent to me to put her back on an IV until they can figure out what is causing the fluid to drop so dramatically or why the being on the IV seems to bring up the amniotic fluid so quickly.
Part of the problem is that they are treating this based on what most pregnancies do even though we have a clear history that has demonstrated that hydration and an IV was effective in bringing up the AFI when this almost identical circumstance occurred with our first child. One of the things that I appreciated with our old doctor in San Diego was that he was not willing to play the odds and instead took every precaution to make sure that the baby was safe.
Needless to say, this cavalier approach is very disconcerting to Jennifer and me. The textbooks may say that an IV won’t make that dramatic of a difference but our previous case history and the effectiveness of bringing up the AFI should be enough to have them put Jennifer on an IV just to be on the safe side.
I’ll let you know more at things progress. Hopefully it doesn’t turn into a medical difficulty merely because the attending physicians are not willing to look at the evidence that flies in the face of conventional wisdom.
Sincerely,
Dave
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