Tuesday, April 29, 2008

FINALLY! A spring day that feels like spring!!







Yesterday was soooooo nice. We went to the park with some friends. It was nice to be out and see blossoms and flowers... I'm so sick of dead brown stick trees! HAHA









I spent the majority of the time chasing Braylee around. That is until I got smart and broke out the stroller :-) There's a pond at the park we were at and she kept heading straight for it! She did have fun on the slide and swing for a short while. Taysen had fun "catching tadpoles" and "fishing" with his friend Trevan.

Saturday, April 19, 2008

Baby Peachy Weechy :-)

Well we have decided to hold off on the amnio. I think we will definitely do it, just farther along in the pregnancy. So far baby looks good on ultrasound. No visible defects other than the omphalocele. I know that doesn't rule out trisomy 13 or 18, but it definitely gives us hope! We have the big 5 month ultrasound scheduled for May 7th and that will tell us a lot more because he'll be more developed. Thanks so much everyone for prayers and kind words :-)

Saturday, April 12, 2008

Our baby boy needs your prayers please

Last Wednesday Jared, Braylee and I went to find out the gender of our baby. While doing the ultrasound an abnormality was found. We were told it was most likely either a Gastroschisis or Omphalocele. They got us into the neonatologist and genetic counselor yesterday and confirmed it is an Omphalocele. There's a lot to it so to find out more go to this website: http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/UVAHealth/peds_hrnewborn/omphaloc.cfm
The Omphalocele itself is treatable with surgery right after the baby is born. But the thing we are the most worried about is that there is a 30% chance our baby may have trisomy 13 or trisomy 18 which are severe chromosomal disorders. Here is a website with more info on it:
http://www.lpch.org/DiseaseHealthInfo/HealthLibrary/genetics/trisomy.html
The only way we can know for sure if our baby has one of these chromosomal defects is if we get an amniocentesis. They told us if we get an amnio there is a .5% chance the baby could miscarry. The chance is small, but it's still there. So we are torn and don't know whether to get the procedure done or not. If is had the chromosome problem, they won't do the surgery. If the baby will only be here for a short time we just want to make peace with it before he gets here...but is it worth it? Or to prepare for a long road in the NICU after surgery(I hope so!). So far I've heard of 2 people I know getting and amnio with no complications. I'd just like to hear of anyone you know has gotten one and what was the outcome.

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

BTW...

We have noooo boy names in mind. So any suggestions of cute boy names would be greatly appreciated! Preferably unique names :-)
It's a boy!!!!!

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

T minus 21.5 hrs!!!!!

Check da bloggy tomorrow to see what I'm talking about :-)

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

TWINS!!!!


AHHHHHHHH Can you believe we're having twins??????










.....APRIL FOOLS :-)