30 weeks 0 days
Maternal Fetal Specialist appointment went well today. Amir is catching up in size and while measuring exactly on target with everything else his abdomen is measuring about 3 weeks behind. This one figure being low drops estimates to the 6th percentile. But with all the figures entered his adjusted fetal age is 29 weeks 5 days ~only 2 days behind. Today's estimated weight 2 pounds 12 ounces. She was still not able to identify any heart defects, so we continue to have faith that we will be one in the 10% of Trisomy 18 babies born with a normal heart <3 Amir will have an Echo at birth just to be sure on his heart.
More good news ~ Amir had choroid plexus cysts in his brain that have completely resolved. He has 2 functioning kidneys. My placenta is functioning normally. My blood pressure remains completely normal, even with all the extra amniotic fluid.
I also learned that I am not a candidate for taking Indocin as previously thought to reduce the amniotic fluid level. Not really because of the Trisomy 18, but because it can cause premature closure of an important cardiac artery in Amir's heart, and it is generally not indicated after 29 weeks along. Plus we don't want to give Amir any additional hurdles to have to jump.
Really the only not so good news (can't really even consider it bad) is that she feels his forearms are missing or underdeveloped, but I know we see at least a partial forearm in the ultrasounds, so we will have to wait until birth to see what exactly what is wrong. Plus this is not new news, as they have been telling us all along there was something wrong with his arms. Again I would take the arm deformity before a heart defect any day.
As of today I would like to carry him to 39 weeks, I am not sure how much longer I can work but I plan on being pregnant until August 8th as of now, which is only 5 days before my actual due date of August 13, 2012.
Thank you to everyone praying for us.
Especially my 6 year old niece Jessica Whaley :)
I finally caught up on your whole blog.... Blessings to you and little Amir!! He sure did pick a special woman to be his mom :)
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