It's amazing how quickly time flies by...4 weeks from today is the big day. Had another "weight check" ultrasound today and our big guy is estimated to be about 5 lbs 10 oz (putting him around 7 lb 10oz by 2/21)!! He had no edema (no sign of heart failure) and overall all the measurements looked good.
As an aside, always interesting to be in medical training and get the experience of what I feel like are the most awkward encounters with other medical trainees...there was a resident helping with Addy's csection and long after my OB left the room, the resident was there sewing me up instead of throwing in some staples and being done with it (at my OB's request). Sutures are much better so of course I told her thank you but got a pretty snappy "your welcome" -- sucks to be the loser I guess but then it's weird when she comes and checks your incision every day. This time around I have been seeing a lot of perinatology fellows - some are really good and you can tell this easily because they truly appreciate how fantastic most ultrasound techs are at what they do and they ask them a lot of questions/rely on their opinion. Not so much the guy today..."I'm having some difficulty getting good views of the heart." Really? Why not try the thing beating with the big echogenic thing bobbing around in it... He could find the kidneys really well - I know because he pointed them out three times "this is just a really beautiful view of the kidneys". If you say so buddy. I told him about baby Newman's procedures in Boston (important that more perinatologists think of this valid option for possible treatment of hypoplastic left heart) and I explained that the stent was now lodged in the ventricle. "Cool" "I mean, it's so cool what they can do" (Good save doctor). It was very nice of him to try and get a 3D pic of our little warrier's chubby cheeks but it was a fail. I did see a cute hand though!
We couldn't be more thankful that the last couple months have been very peaceful and relatively uneventful aside from all the appointments. Despite the awkward way today's perinatology fellow put it - a good reminder that though not "normal" our little guy's heart is amazingly woven, just as it was planned to be and it is pretty cool that there are people bright enough to come up with ways to "adjust" it a bit to make it work more effectively once he enters the world. If he comes out crying, stays a little pink and we get to hold him before he goes to the NICU- that will be the most amazing thing of all!!! (and we will be praying for those couple minutes!!)
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