This has been a long two weeks.\u00a0 Our follow-up sonogram is tomorrow afternoon, and as the fateful hour approaches, we are occupying ourselves by counting our blessings.\u00a0 Basically, the doctors have not been terribly hopeful, but we are trying to be.\u00a0 So in no particular order, here are a few reasons we have to be encouraged:<\/p>\n
1.\u00a0 The baby is growing well and has a strong heartbeat.<\/p>\n
2.\u00a0 You may think it’s crazy, but at 15 weeks, I’ve already started to feel the baby move a little bit.\u00a0 You’ll think I’m even crazier when I tell you I started feeling it at 14 weeks.\u00a0 (It’s getting easier to tell it apart from gas.)<\/p>\n
3.\u00a0 When Kaeta was born, she had fluid in her<\/em> abdomen.\u00a0 She spent a week (the longest of our lives) in the NICU.\u00a0 The doctors were quite concerned then too, and prepared to run several tests.\u00a0 But when they went to perform the tests, the fluid was gone.\u00a0 She’s been fine ever since.\u00a0 So who knows?\u00a0 Maybe we just make babies with weird inexplicable fluid in their tummies when nothing is actually wrong.<\/p>\n 4.\u00a0 There might actually be nothing wrong.\u00a0 Even the doctors have admitted that this is a possibility.\u00a0 No one has ruled out the chance that the baby will be born in January, healthy as can be.<\/p>\n 5.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 We might have been blind-sided by this, but He is not.<\/p>\n 6.\u00a0 We have lots of people who love this baby and are praying for us.\u00a0 And we are so grateful.<\/p>\n Thank you for all your prayers and encouragement.\u00a0 We can’t tell you how much we appreciate it.\u00a0 Sigh.\u00a0 This has been a loooong two weeks.\u00a0 Stay tuned….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This has been a long two weeks.\u00a0 Our follow-up sonogram is tomorrow afternoon, and as the fateful hour approaches, we are occupying ourselves by counting our blessings.\u00a0 Basically, the doctors have not been terribly hopeful, but we are trying to be.\u00a0 So in no particular order, here are a few reasons we have to be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekurths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekurths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekurths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekurths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekurths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thekurths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekurths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekurths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekurths.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}