Relief

Sorry it's been so quiet on this front as of late. It's mostly been because I've been so worried about this pregnancy that I haven't really felt like blogging. As we said in our last post, on our 20-week ultrasound, baby had dilated and echogenic bowel. We were referred to a maternal-fetal medicine specialist who thought that it might indicate bowel obstruction or imperforate anus. We've since been getting serial ultrasounds every 4 weeks or so to follow the appearance of the bowels. Up until the most recent ultrasound, the bowels had not changed in appearance. We were even worried that we would have to be sent to U of M for delivery, just in case baby needed to have surgery after he was born. But praise the Lord!!! Our last ultrasound on Monday showed that baby's bowels appeared normal. Our maternal-fetal medicine specialist said that there was no need to do any more ultrasounds and most likely, baby will be fine. Needless to say, we were both ecstatic! Now we feel like we can really get excited and prepare for baby's soon arrival. Both of our families threw us baby showers, so now we have a mountain of baby clothes, gear, etc. We'll be posting more on those later.

Thank you to all of you that have been keeping the three of us in your thoughts and prayers!