On the Bright Side

This has been a long two weeks.  Our follow-up sonogram is tomorrow afternoon, and as the fateful hour approaches, we are occupying ourselves by counting our blessings.  Basically, the doctors have not been terribly hopeful, but we are trying to be.  So in no particular order, here are a few reasons we have to be encouraged:

1.  The baby is growing well and has a strong heartbeat.

2.  You may think it’s crazy, but at 15 weeks, I’ve already started to feel the baby move a little bit.  You’ll think I’m even crazier when I tell you I started feeling it at 14 weeks.  (It’s getting easier to tell it apart from gas.)

3.  When Kaeta was born, she had fluid in her abdomen.  She spent a week (the longest of our lives) in the NICU.  The doctors were quite concerned then too, and prepared to run several tests.  But when they went to perform the tests, the fluid was gone.  She’s been fine ever since.  So who knows?  Maybe we just make babies with weird inexplicable fluid in their tummies when nothing is actually wrong.

4.  There might actually be nothing wrong.  Even the doctors have admitted that this is a possibility.  No one has ruled out the chance that the baby will be born in January, healthy as can be.

5.  We know that God loves this baby even more than we do, and He has a plan for this life, no matter how long or brief it may be.  We might have been blind-sided by this, but He is not.

6.  We have lots of people who love this baby and are praying for us.  And we are so grateful.

Thank you for all your prayers and encouragement.  We can’t tell you how much we appreciate it.  Sigh.  This has been a loooong two weeks.  Stay tuned….