January 4th!

Profile of the face at 31 weeks

We had another u/s today. The baby looks good and we got some good pictures. We got a good look at his face, it was pretty amazing. We were even able to see his hair!

Part of the spine,  the knob on the left is the open part of the spine.

We had the amnio today also. It’s not that I am against them, it just seemed that we didn’t need one, so why go through with the procedure? We ended up doing it, and of course this active little guy didn’t want it either and kept moving around. So it was like getting 3 amnios (it’s not so fun being a pin cushion), and we still didn’t get quite enough fluid, so the results will take longer. The Doctor let me know if I happen to deliver now he might have a few nicks on him! It is just getting ridiculous, I am just glad it is over. Since everything looks fine I don’t have to have anymore appointments with him until the C-section.

I finally was able to ask my questions. Mainly when were we expecting to deliver this guy? He was like “oh didn’t we tell you that you are scheduled Jan 4th?” uh no thanks for keeping me on the same page. So it looks like we are heading to Grand Rapids on January 3rd to see if his lungs are developed and if they are we will have the C-section on the 4th.

On Tuesday (Nov 30th) we drive down to Grand Rapids to talk with the Surgeon, Neonatologist and Social Worker. It will be nice to have a better idea of what is going on in less than 6 weeks!