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Tuesday, May 25, 2010

The rest of the ultrasound results:

Yesterday i expected very little changed when we got to the specialist in Memphis. I had prayed and hoped for the best. I was ready to fight as hard as i could no matter what they were going to tell us. I am still in shock!! So thankful! Besides being told by the drs there was very little chance, i have spent hours researching and reading other Pprom stories searching for hope. Statistically and scientifically the chances were not in our favor for several reasons; my body could go into labor on its own at anytime. The babys lungs might not develop at all or not open if they did develop. There was also a danger of the baby or myself developing a dangerous infection, in that case they would of made me terminate bc it could of shut down all my organs. There was also a danger of cord compression, being no fluid the cord could be pinched off cutting off the babys blood and oxygen supply. Learning all of that i still had no fear bc i have God on my side. I kept researching and coming across alot of women's stories, i found a few success stories. Where babys had survived having no fluid most of the time. So that gave me tons of hope!

So as the tech did the u/s and then went to get the dr to look. He looked for awhile and told us that he wanted to talk to us about a few things he found in the u/s in a conference room. Once we were in the room he told us there we 3 things he found. First was that both of the babys feet were turned in at the ankles. This could be 1 of 2 things: it could be from the amount of time the baby went without fluid and the baby was growing and couldnt move them. Or it could be a condition called rockerfoot. Which is commonly associated with a genetic abnormality where there is an extra #21 chromosome, this can cause severe retardation and most infants die shortly after they are born and have major heart defects. The second thing he found was that there was light colored shading on the u/s in the babys bowels that was from blood the baby had swallowed bc i had bled the first 7 weeks i was pregnant. It is nothing that we have to be concerned with. The third thing was there was also light shading on a muscle in the babys heart, he said this was common to see in many normal pregnancies and he was not really concerned with that either. It may be a hole in the heart or it may not be. He said that we would know more when i come back in 3 weeks.

I am so so so thankful, this baby boy is gods creation and proof that he is the great physician and that through him ALL things are possible.

1 comment:

  1. Kristin, you are not going through all of this for nothing, your faith in God is an encouragement to all of us! You and Jeramie are in our prayers!God is always in control and I believe you are going to have a healthy, beautiful, baby boy!

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