I wanted to wait until after today to put this bit of information up. Because today we met with the perinatologist. He comes to Pocatello once a month and meets with pregnant women who have been deemed as "high risk". Some may know and some may not that after our ultra sound on Tuesday the technician informed our doctor that our baby's bowel was a little too large. This is typically called an echogenic bowel. My OB than told us some things that this could mean, it could mean either A. Its just a large bowel that will self correct itself and nothing will ever come of it, B. Our baby could have cystic fibrosis, or C. our baby could have a chromosomal defect.
Of course my immediate reaction was to break down and cry. My OB continually tried telling me to be positive and think that nothing would really be wrong. But really after you give a woman that kind of news what do you expect? So he told us a couple of things we could do, we could meet with the high risk specialist or do a panel of screens for genetic defects. We told him we would definitely meet with the specialist and than let him know on the testing. We went in today and met with the specialist, he did another ultrasound and showed us the problem with the bowel. He let us know due to the fact that our baby is growing normally otherwise down syndrome was very unlikely, I think the number he said was a 1 in 8,000 chance of it (echogenic bowel is often a sign of down syndrome). But he once again said that cystic fibrosis could take play in it and we could take the blood tests to see if we were carriers. After telling him either way we are having a baby, no matter what, he said the best thing for us to do right now is to start planning for her college tuition in 18 years.
So technically we didn't get anymore answers today but it just added to the blessings we have recieved that everything would be okay. Yes there still is a chance our baby could be born with problems, but isn't that always a chance? Josh and I both know that with faith in the Lord and His promises and patience in the next few months we will have the most beautiful little baby girl come July.
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