Around week sixteen we started noticing that my amniotic fluid levels were low and they proceeded to get lower after every appointment. My doctor had me go see a perinatologist (high-risk pregnancy doctor) and he informed us that if you ruled everything else out, I had to be leaking fluid. We hadn’t been able to prove this yet because it was still to early for the fluid to show up on a test, but it was really the only explanation. He let us know that this could cause physical deformities like club feet, but that all of that could be fixed with physical therapy. The real concern was that the lack of fluid could cause the baby’s lungs to not develop properly, which isn’t detectable on an ultrasound, so there was no way to know if it was an issue until the baby was born. He recommended that I discuss it with my doctor, but felt that I should be checking into the hospital for monitoring. The next time we had an appointment with my doctor we went over what the perinatologist said. It was decided that I would check into the hospital at my 26 week mark, which would have been Saturday, September 10th. She told me if anything happened sooner I was supposed to go straight to labor and delivery, but otherwise they’d monitor me once I was there. They planned on having me deliver at 36 weeks (November 19th) unless it came on it’s own before then. This post catches us up to when I started this blog as a way to stay entertained during the 10 week hospital stay. The next post will be what happened from there.