update on baby!

Hey guys!

Gah, do I ever owe you an update! So sorry I haven't been on here more to update this blog, but you know how it goes...

So... baby is doing great. We have been having fetal assessments every 2 weeks to keep an eye on whether or not I am showing signs of premature labour. So far so good! All of my measurements have been great and everything looks nice and closed! No signs of labour starting anytime in the very near future. A HUGE answer to prayer. We are fast approaching the point in pregnancy when I had Faith and things are looking positive so far. I saw my OB this morning and he agreed with my Fetal Assessment doc that things are going well, but we will continue with the plan. I think everyone wants to be very involved until we get past the point of viability - when baby could be born and have a chance of survival outside of me. That point is around 25-26 weeks, but the odds get much better after 28 weeks. I am much more comfortable with this monitoring and am very thankful that my docs are not relaxing just because they've seen a few good scans. I want the follow up to continue until we're in a safe zone, because with Faith things changed VERY quickly. The purpose of all of this is to be pro-active instead of caught offguard, so I am glad that we are sticking to that plan.

Baby is measuring great and is right on time. They have moved my official due date to January 7th. That's a few days ahead of my original due date of January 10th, so I was pretty surprised! I have never been bumped up before! They always tell me that baby is smaller than they thought! Anatomy scans are all finished (the typical 20 week ultrasound stuff) and everything is looking great. The fun thing about it all being done in fetal assessment instead of the regular ultrasound department is that they are MUCH more detailed with the scans and a LOT nicer about it too! So far Ross has been given 2 tours of the baby's brain (one by the tech, and the other by a doc who was teaching a resident about it...) and he finds it all very interesting. Once I tell them that Ross is a Psych Major they say "Oh!" and get all detailed with him. Half the time I wonder if he understands, cuz I sure don't... but he seems to. haha! They've also shown us the heart in detail, the face and told us all sorts of stuff about normal development, placental attachement, etc. It's amazing. I think I know more about ultrasounds now then I ever would have in life had I not gone through this! It's amazing.

In other life, we are gearing up for Logan's birthday... or as he calls it, his "Train Happy Day!" We are going with a train theme and the grandparents have gone together to buy him a train table for his birthday. He'll absolutley love it, I'm sure. He is completely obsessed with trains these days. Trains and Cars. I've also told him that he can have a train cake... well... that was just BEYOND his imagination. Now he's asking almost every day for a "Train Happy Day Cake... Brown Happy Day" (the Brown part come from Ross's birthday cake having chocolate icing... he realized that cake comes in brown and white, and he has made it well known that he prefers brown. haha!) I'll have to figure out how to work some brown into this train... but I'm hoping that the fact that it's chocolate cake will suffice. I'm sure he'll just be amazed that it's a train.

So we are busy this week getting ready for his birthday and trying to find him a bike before his birthday actually comes. Ross and I are getting him his first bike for his birthday. He has a trike that he has learned to pedal really well and now scoots around on quite a bit in the basement. (If the stupid rain would go away we could go outside!!!) so we figured it was time for a real bike. We've taken him shopping a few times and he fits a small bike pretty good and he loves biking. Now we jsut have to pick one. Hopefully tonight will be the end of our shopping sprees for this thing. :)

So that's all that's happening with us! I'll try to keep updated more often, and will post pics of the birthday party soon!

Jen