Whew!

Did you feel that big gust of wind just now?  That was our sigh of relief.  The sonogram today revealed that the scary fluid in the baby’s tummy is gone.  Yes — GONE!  The baby’s heart is beating steady and strong and looks great.  The brain, spine, and kidneys all look good, too.  And Baby is still growing on track for the due date.

But we’re not quite out of the woods yet.  The fluid is gone, but now there is a mysterious cyst in Baby’s tummy.  The doctor really has no idea what this could be, but the list of possibilities this time was waaay less scary than last time.  Could be completely benign with no impact on the baby whatsoever, could be something correctable, could even go away on its own…. but worst-case, it could still be an indication of something serious like down syndrome.  But in any case, at least it sounds likely that our baby will survive!

The doctor was encouraged as well.  He said that if the fluid was a sign of something really bad, we would probably have seen that the fluid was still there and maybe even worse.  But we will be going back again in another two weeks to keep watch on the cyst and make sure the fluid doesn’t return.

So does this sound familiar at all?  Some of you might remember that Kaeta was born with fluid in her tummy.  By the time the doctors went to extract some of the fluid to run tests, the fluid had disappeared and was replaced by a benign cyst  — which over the next few months went away completely on its own.   So, yeah.  I guess we DO just make babies with weird inexplicable fluid that goes away.

Again, thank you all for all your prayers and words of encouragement.  We are so thankful for you, for this baby, and for this very hopeful answer to all our prayers.

We’re going out to eat to celebrate.  We’ll try to post sonogram pics later.