June 18, 2009

More of the same

Rain, rain, rain...we joked with the doc today that we were starting to build a boat and herd the animals - and babies - two by two. Hehe, funny Craig. Rain: more of the same. Anyway, down and back yet again. 21 weeks (actually 20 weeks 6 days but who's counting?) and still the report is the same. We saw yet another one of the partners today - I think there are 4 and we have now seen 3 of them. Following the ultrasound and testing of the hearts and finding of the bladders and measuring of the amniotic fluid he came in to give us the assessment and said nothing has changed. Baby A (AKA Danny Manning) continues to show all normal signs of health. Baby B (AKA Spud) continues to lag behind in size and has some irregularities with the blood flow through the umbilical chord but still has a functioning bladder and sufficient amniotic fluid. They measured in last week at a 46% size discordance and they will measure the sizes again next week. Today's doc really drove home the point that though TTTS has essentially been ruled out, the significance in size differential is still a very real and potentially severe problem. He indicated that if the differential increases much at all Spud would jeopardize the health and development of Manning. There really aren't any medical interventions they can perform to fix the situation - except hope and pray that the size discordance decreases. Although the news was not new, his way of re-telling of it (in my opinion) made it feel very heavy and made it sound very likely that we would be faced with decisions no one wants to make. Prayer: more of the same. We've been praying for the health of these two little ones and their mama. That has all been maintaining and we're so grateful to God for that! I ask you to change your prayers only slightly - ask God to close the gap. We look forward to two healthy kids (we presently have two pretty healthy kids). Thanks for your many thoughts, prayers, help, and love as always - more of the same! Sometimes more of the same is good. Sometimes a little change is better!

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