All Good News!

I had my second growth scan done today on Brody to make sure that his abdomen is growing as it should be. And, as usual, all my worrying was for nothing, because I am 30 weeks now and all his measurements came out to 30 weeks! His abdomen was measuring 29 weeks and 5 days, but they have no problems with that. So, good to hear, and now I can relax a bit knowing that I won't have to be induced this early! Thank you for all the prayers and well wishes.

Just another hurdle to jump over

Well, for those of you who I haven't had the chance to talk to yet, there's news on our little Brody. I went for a growth scan this past Wed. just to make sure he's growing as he should be, especially since Sophie was small due to growth restriction. The measurements came out all perfect except for his abdomen, which is measuring small. So, long story short, I am being sent back to Mem. Her. Hosp. (where I got my 20 week growth scan done), so they can compare the numbers and put them on a growth chart to see if they are okay.

I have that appt. on Wednesday morning, and it can go 1 of 2 ways. One, they can look at the numbers and find that his abdomen has always measured small, and then they no longer worry about it....he's just small due to the fact that I have small babies. Or 2, they can find that his abdomen has never measured small, and the fact that it is now menas that he's heading towards being growth restricted. If they find that out, I'm not sure how long they'll let him stay in, because Dr.'s always induce to get the babies out because they can grow outside the womb better than inside obviously. We will pray for the first option, since I am only 29 weeks....and the next time I go to the Dr. I will be 31 weeks, and WAY too early in my book. Especially since I had Sophie at 34 weeks and she had major problems because of it, and still does to this day.

I am very thankful for family, as always, and especially now. They keep me sane, and don't ever worry about things, because they know I worry enough for the whole family! I will get an update after my appt. on Wed. hopefully.

test results...finally

Sorry this will be short, due to exhaustion on my part! Sophie's test results came back all negative basically, except for a slight allergy to milk. But the Dr. doesn't think it's enough of an allergy to cut it out, except that I told her I had cut milk out of her diet just to see what would happen, and she has been spitting up MUCH less. So, knowing that, she then said to try her on soy milk for 3-4 weeks to see if she stays the same or gets worse or what happens. After that 3-4 week period, if things don't get better then she suggested having a procedure done where a scope with a camera is put down Sophie to check out things on the inside. Specifically the lining to her esophogaus(spelling?) since she refluxes all day, that could be badly damaged. That being said, I will let everyone know if and when that is scheduled for. I'm not big on that procedure only because she will be put under, which has never happened to her before. But her GI Dr. will be the one actually doing the procedure, and I trust her big time....but that only makes me feel slightly better. I believe the other options are only more invasive, so she's going with the easiest to the hardest procedures. And to tell you the truth, if she has this done, depending on the results, we might be stopping at this procedure and just praying she outgrows her reflux. So, that's all for now!

Baby name!

Alright, well just when I figured that Nick had no idea how much he was frustrating me by not picking a name for our baby boy....this Valentine's Day, he wrote me a sweet letter and in it he wrote that he thought Brody Allen was the perfect name for our little one! So, after all the nagging, I got the name I wanted.....and really he had chosen much earlier, but wanted to wait for a special time to tell me that he agreed! With that out fo the way, Brody's nursery can be finished by having his name incorporated into the mural on his wall (new pics will be coming soon). Yay to finishing projects!

TCH Bloodwork

Well, we made the dreaded trip to TCH yesterday at 3pm (because Sophie refused to have a nap) to get Sophie's bloodwork done. In case I haven't mentioned, her GI suggested some bloodwork be done because we have tried all the medications for acid reflux, and none of them really fix things. The only thing left to do is to do bloodwork to test for a food allergy or celiac disease (which is a complicated disease in which someone's body doesn't take in nutrients due to their allergy to gluten, wheat, rye....and many other things). We should get the results back in a week or so.

To get back to the actual blood test, I do not wish this upon anyone! I truly do appreciate the staff and nurses at TCH though, the bad experience had nothing to do with them, they are very talented nurses. It started out bad once they had to look for a vein in Sophie's arm, the screaming started then and never really stopped. Poor girl, apparently has very hard veins to find. (Which has nothing to do with the fact that she's small, because the kiddo before her was only 8 months old and he had this blood drawn as well). So, they had to search for a long time....then once they actually put the needle in, it seems like time slowed. Who knew that their blood flowed soooo slowly into those tubes. Also, for all of her tests, they had to fill up 5 tubes! I thought that the blood moving so slowly was the worst part, until I realized that the nurse was taking out the needle without having filled up all the tubes. She said that Sophie's vein would have collapsed, so she had to stop and go to the other arm. I will say, that made me a little sick to think of the whole process starting over again on her other little arm. Oddly enough, Sophie didn't cry any harder when they put the needle in her other arm....so it must not have actually hurt that bad. After singing "The Wheels On The Bus" about 2 times (with me crying), plus a few made up verses, Sophie actually stopped crying....for a minute, until she looked over and noticed the needle once again. After what seemed like forever, Sophie crying and me crying (the nurse even asked if I was going to be okay), it was all over and they had put purple bandages on both of her arms. I will say that I was thankful for her paci and blankie yesterday, they both calmed her down like nothing else! Of course by the time we got to the car she was signing "help" for me to take her tight bandages off. Then she was asleep within 5 minutes of leaving TCH, thank goodness. I still say that she's much stronger than I am, because I would have been complaining about my arms for hours later, but she never once pointed out her "boo-boo's" on her arms.

What was just as bad, was the fact that Nick had to restrain her while they were drawing the blood, so for the rest of the day Sophie wanted nothing to do with him....poor daddy! So I give him props for being strong as well. My heart also goes out to those parents of kiddos who have cancer or who are very sick and have to get their blood taken often, I know it can't get any easier. As a sad keepsake I had to take pictures of her poor little arms today, they actually look better than I thought they would.