Baby Update

I haven't gotten a chance to update you in our baby. Thursday we went to the perinatologist to get a very in depth ultrasound and look at the baby. We started with the ultrasound. It was great to see the baby. The baby was not very cooperative. The things that we needed to look at the baby would not move certain ways to see. The lady told us that it was a good thing we did not want to know the sex of the baby because baby was not showing anything, and she did not even know what it was. After time and poking and making baby move, we got all the measurements we needed.  It all worked out but we did not get very good pictures. We also got to see the baby's heart more closely. The calcium deposit is still there in the heart, but the heart looked to us like it functioned just great.

After the ultrasound the perinatologist came in to talk to us. He thought that the the baby looked great. He explained that just going off of my age, like any other person my age, the baby had a 1/1200 chance of having down syndrome. After the ultrasound, even with the calcium deposit in the heart, the baby now has a 1/2400 chance of having down syndrome. The odds were brought even further down because of the baby's normal size, femur length, humerous length, and nasal bone.  The only way to know for sure would be to have an amino which has a 1/200 chance of losing the baby, and that is not an option for us.

Because the calcium deposit will not in anyway effect baby and the baby's heart function, we are very happy. It should clear up on it's own, and we do not even need to tell our pediatrician if we do not want to. At this point we are just expecting a completely healthy baby, and we are feeling so blessed.

We also found out baby was 1 pound 7 ounces as of last week, and the heart rate was 150 beats per minute. Both weight and heart rate are perfect.

I did not scan the ultrasound pictures in because they were not very clear, but here is a picture of my belly with 4 months to go. ( I really need to take some better belly pics!)

God is so faithful, and we are so excited to meet this little miracle and get to know all about it. Only 16 weeks left!