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Sunday, October 3, 2010

Relief!

October brings so many exciting new adventures for our family. First of all, I have relieved Norah from her blogging duties. She has so much to concentrate on with all the growing, teething and learning she's been doing... keeping up a blog is a lot of pressure for a wee little one. From now on, you will hear of our family happenings from my boring mommy/wifey point of view. Of course, Norah might still throw in a witty comment here or there.:)

38 Week Ultrsound
Thursday morning I went to Community Bible Study(CBS) as usual at 9:30. Joel agreed to stay home with Nor, since she had a runny nose and somewhat of a fever, I didn't want her in the toddler nursery. I left CBS at 11:10 and rushed to the doctor's office to meet Joel and Norah for our ultrasound.

The ultrasound seemed pretty uneventful... except for the fact that they think Henry already weighs 8lbs. 6oz.!!!! We were 13 days from our due date on Thursday. As I was still digesting the hugeness of our baby we went to meet with our midwife. She told us that there was an excess amount of amniotic fluid for 38 weeks and that Henry had an abnormal amount of fluid in his cisterna magna (fluid filled space at the back of his brain).. they referred to this as mega cisterna magna. Normal range would have been less than 10mm. Henry's measured at 16mm. Joel thought nothing of the enlarged cisterna magna but, I was crying and very very worried about our little guy. Our midwife called after we got home and said that they would make an appointment with a specialist to investigate this further. They were going to call us Friday morning with the appointment time. Thursday night after we said prayers with Norah and put her to bed Joel and I sat in the living room and prayed for our little miracle. We already love him so incredibly much. It was consuming and a relief at the same time when I finally acknowledged that God is in control. Hard for my simple mind to understand but.... God loves Henry more than Joel and I combined.

Friday morning at 8:45am, I got a call saying the specialist wanted us to meet with her at 9:30. I rushed to wake Norah, feed her, clothe her, brush my teeth and we were out the door by 9. Joel met us there and another ultrasound began. This ultrasound showed Henry topping the charts at 9 POUNDS! Hopefully that's off by at least a pound! I saw the sonographer measure his cisterna magna at 17.7mm. Even bigger than Thursday's scan. Soon after the scanner finished, a doctor came in and scanned my stomach for a bit. "9 pounds? What are you just waiting for the baby to fall out?" was the first thing she said. I wish it was going to be that easy I said.:) She said everything else in Henry's brain looked perfectly fine and there was nothing that concerned her in the scan. PRAISE THE LORD! She told us that they'd still want Henry to have an ultrasound of his head after he's born but, there was no reason for us to be concerned. So... we continue to pray for Henry.

I know we have a great deal of love and support out there and we just ask that you include Henry in your daily prayers.

2 comments:

  1. I will be praying for you, baby Henry and your family for calm nerves during this exciting time in your life! God is in control and knows the desires of your hearts! Can't wait to hear about his arrival!

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  2. oh, that cannot be easy. It is so great that we don't have to carry around these concerns and burdens on our own. God is so great! Wyatt was 9 1/2 pounds when he was born and do remember sarah from our cbs core last year? her 'little' guy was around 10 lbs!! In our prayers!!

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