The baby is just chillin...

Today we had our appointment with the specialist at OSF and got another sono! The results are good! The doctor said that the spine, brain, and heart all look good, so now I can hopefully rest a little more! It is really such a relief.

I went to the OSF Maternal/Fetal Diagnostic Center and it was really cool. They probably had 5 to 6 rooms all with sono machines and people doing sonos. Everyone there was really nice too, so that was a huge plus. Our appointment was at 9:30 and of course I had a whole stack of paperwork to fill out! On the top of one of the sheets it said reason for referral and they had it filled in with 'complicated pregnancy'. I was a little thrown and freaked out at seeing this on a piece of paper! They had us go in a little room to answer family history questions, which were all the same as what my doctor had asked and sent to them so she had all the answers, but apparently wanted to verify them. When she was done asking questions and going over information she asked if I had to use the bathroom. I thought she was just being rude, of course I had to pee, my doctor had told me I would need to drink at least 32 oz. of water before the sono! Well, as it turns out I needed an empty bladder, so I got to go to the bathroom much earlier than expected which was nice.

Then, we were moved into a sono room and handed off to the sono tech. She was also really nice and was awesome about explaining what we were looking at. I seemed to be able to see things better than last week, but maybe thats just because I knew what to expect or it could be that the tech was pointing everything out. For example she pointed out the hand, all the way down to the thumb. The baby was not cooperating at all as far as the gender goes. It was facing the inside of my stomach so all we could see was its back and butt which isn't too bad because we were there mainly to look at the spine, so that was easy to see. This sono was waaaaaaaaaaaaay cooler than last weeks. The baby was much more active. It was always sitting Indian style or was busy kicking its legs like crazy. It was neat to see! At one point the baby stretched completely out and I felt it which confirms that what I have been feeling the past few weeks is movement. We got to hear and see the baby's heartbeat which was 152 beats per minute.

After the tech got all of her measurements done she went and got the doctor. The doctor (Yolanda Renfro) then came in and introduced herself and started to do the sono and look at the baby herself. She said "Man, your baby is just chilling in there using the placenta as a pillow!" which made Devin and I both crack up. She thought she may get the baby to roll over so she sent me to the bathroom again since the baby was pushing right on my bladder. She then looked again at the spine and all of the important things and told us what we wanted to hear everything looked great! She thought with the more room it might give us a glimpse as to if the baby is a he or she, but it definitely didn't so the baby is still an it! The nurse and the sono tech were still in the room and they were laughing that the baby was being so shy. This was such a minor detail to me at this point because I just wanted to know that the baby was healthy. The doctor said that our dates were right on and that the baby was measuring right where it should. It weighs 9 ounces and I don't think she told us how long the baby was and if she did I forgot!

Here are the two pictures that we got from the sono. They are both of the face which is what we got alot of last week too. I guess you take what you can get! The tech took 58 pictures to send to my regular doctor so I had my hopes up that we would get more than two! Also, while we were still waiting we saw a couple come out from a sono and they had a whole string of pictures.


This is of the face...the baby was kind of starting to roll over, but never made it all the way over. You can see an eye socket and the nose.

This is pretty much the same picture!

They wanted to see us again, just to make sure when the baby is bigger that everything is okay so we got back there on March 8th. If the baby is stubborn then I am hoping to convince Devin that we shouldn't find out, which I don't think I can convince him of, he really wants to know!

Thanks for checking in! Also thank you for all of your thoughts and prayers for us this past week and a half! It's been rough, but everything is looking up now!