darkness is falling all over the house

It's dark now, 4 am.

I am off continuous monitoring of Stellan; it was simply too difficult to keep his tiny, squirming (good sign!) body on the monitor. The doctors had decided sometime earlier tonight (I've been, thankfully, on sleeping pills and haven't been too aware of what's been going on until now.) to switch to ultrasounds every hour between then and 10 am CST on Thursday. The most recent ultrasound just wrapped up, so I thought I'd throw a little post out here. Will all the info gathered from all of these ultrasounds, I will have some information about what kind of a day and night Stellan's heart had that I can bring to my ECHO tomorrow morning--Thursday--at 11:30 am CST.

I will tell you that his heart rate has been going down and up, the first in a long while that we've seen it budge from it's high perch near 300 bpr. A promising sign: Perhaps Flecainide still may be our drug and we may stick with it, with continued tweaking of my doses. That is, as long as it has not caused heart block in Stellan again.

I will know a lot more after our ECHO in the morning and will post again then, if not sooner. Don't miss The Around The Clock Prayer Vigil For Baby Stellan in my previous post. Also, if you would like a prayer button for the sidebar of your blog, to link to our story and let people know you are praying for us, you can easily pick it up by clicking here. My sweet friend Jennisa made one earlier in the night and it's yours for the taking, so head on over there if you'd like one.

See you again in a few hours!