Sooner than later maybe?

Well Jen is a little tired tonight so you'll have to put up with me writing this. We had our regular meeting with Dr O'Hara, our regular specialist, along with a standard sonogram. They said everything looked pretty much like last time. Still looks like a horse-shoe kidney and fluid levels are still very low but not any worse (which in our world is good news). We will still have to deal with why the baby isn't able to urinate and if that is the kidney or a urinary tract blockage or what. As far as we know they won't know that until after birth or know it is something surgery can fix or not.

The Dr seems to have shifted plans some today though now that we are 27 weeks + along. They consider 26 weeks as being the point where a baby has a decent chance in neo natal intensive care. So the Dr recommended that Jenny get a couple of steroid shots. Steroids are what they use to help increase lung development in premature babies. Jenny taking the shots won't actually help the lungs develop at this stage but if she gives birth early having the steroids already in the blood stream gives them a jump start on treatment after birth.

We also now have weekly appointments where they measure how active the baby is and how well he is able to breathe. The have a scale of 1 to 8 that they rank it on. They are doing all this to help keep a very watchful eye to do the best to avoid stillbirth which is still a very high risk for us. We got the feeling from the doctor that she is leaning toward an early birth. She didn't come right out and say when or anything but based on some of the treatment choices we are getting the feeling that it might be coming sooner than we expected.

Well we will keep you all posted as best as we can as we continue our appointments. Thanks to everyone for all the thoughts and prayers! We still have a long battle ahead and are far from out of the woods at all but at least taking steps in the right direction still.

Fetal Echo-Sept. 23rd appt.

We went to see Dr. Battise, the fetal cardiologist today and she did a fetal echo on the baby's heart. As they were doing the echo, the Dr. and the tech thought they saw a hole but when they went over it and looked at it from several directions they decided that maybe it was just a false reading. She also said that the chambers looked equal in size which is a good sign because if there is an issue one side of the four chambers would be larger than the opposite side. Before we left the Dr. said that we should plan for a echo after the baby is born to check the heart while he is in the NICU to make sure that the heart is working well.

Our take on all this is that it is good news and that we are just continuing to pray that God will watch over our little man and keep him growing. We go to see Dr. O'Hara on the 29th because Dr. Farb had to cancel the appointment that was scheduled tomorrow.

Things seem to be going well because he is moving all around and I am hungry all the time!! The other night I just laid there and just watched my belly dance, he was moving all around. I told Lanny he must be a dancer because he was moving so much. He then asked me "what music was he listening to" and I said "the music in his head". Lanny just rolled his eyes and said "yeah, he got that from you!" I just laughed, because it's true!!

We do want to thank all of you for your support during this trying time in our lives. It is very uplifting and lets us know that we are truly lucky to have friends and family care so much about us and our son!!! We love you guys!