A little scare….but everything is just fine!

I went in for my BIG ultrasound on Tuesday… we did not find out the sex of the baby.  Everything measured just right, but we didn’t get many good pictures.  When we were leaving the appointment, I told Russell that it seemed like she spent a lot of time looking at the baby’s heart.  I was a little worried , but pushed it to the back of my mind.  We went to Charlie and Evelyn’s to get Lincon and stayed for dinner.  When we got home from the appointment, there was a message from the u/s tech at the hospital saying that they needed me to come back in.  She said they missed a mandatory image of the heart.  Of course in moments like these, you automatically think the worse, but then try and be hopeful…. “Did she really miss a mandatory image?”  “Why WAS she looking at the heart for so long?”  “Was it not beating right?”  “Why did she check the heart rate twice?”  All these thoughts ran through my head all night. I didn’t sleep terribly, but I didn’t sleep well either.  Yesterday morning when I woke up I just said “God, you know what I can handle so if there is an issue with this baby’s heart, I know you will get us through this.”

I called and was able to get in at 10 o’clock for another u/s.  They lady kept apologizing and said that they really did just miss a mandatory image of the four chambers of the heart.  She took the image she needed then took TONS of pictures of the tiny little miracle growing inside me.  She said everything looked beautiful.  Very reassuring! It’s hard to believe this little baby weighs about 1 pound and has every little body part that we as adults have.  We could even see the lenses of the eyes.  Here are some pics from yesterdays ultrasound.  The baby was in a beautiful position for the heart image and for all these other neat ones too.

Folded in half…look at those calves!  Just like Daddy’s!

Both feet…the ankles were crossed.

Cute little profile.

~ by tshasthoughts on May 29, 2008.