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.