A Bundle of Myrrh

I finally feel like I have a better picture of what we need to have ready for our baby’s birth and what can wait and finally we have an idea of the plan we need to put together for the week she’ll arrive. If she stays put, it looks like we’ll actually plan to let her get closer to her due date than I originally expected which puts us into October. All that feels really good. Now we wrap up the Summer activities, the travel and visitors and prep for school to begin in a few weeks. Then I can turn my attention to nursery prep and all the fun stuff that comes with getting ready for a baby. It helps immensely that I’m already exhausted and am sure I’m walking through quicksand all day long. 👍

Baby is 27 weeks now. Look at that little face!

For the next 12 weeks we are just tracking her growth, which appears to be appropriate for her age at this point. We also are keeping track of the fluid accumulation on her brain (hydrocephalus.) As of last week it looks to be about the same as it was at 23 weeks which is good to hear. Other good news is I don’t have to worry about Gestational Diabetes having passed that test, I’m glad to scratch that concern off my list at least.

Thank you all again for your ongoing prayers.

You never know what you’re capable of until you spend and hour and a half of your life pregnant inside an MRI scanner. Oy! The tech had to chase baby “all around the swimming pool” as he put it. But thankfully that went well and thankfully that is over. Hopefully we will have results on those scans today. Today we have an ultrasound, meet with a neonatologist and a neurosurgeon. Thank you all again for the ongoing thoughts and prayers!