Boy, oh boy, oh boy, OH boy!

Was the subject subtle enough? We found out today that there’s a little boy in there! I’d say we are elated, but that’s not good enough to describe how we are feeling. I love the fact that we will have a girl and boy. I was happy to find out he’s a boy as I was already convinced that’s what was in there. Tears of joy definitely followed the news!!

Here’s the rest of the story as to why we found out earlier than our originally scheduled Jan. 28th ultrasound. Last Thurs. I got a call from the nurse at Dr. Waite’s office to tell me they got the results back from our genetic testing and asked us to come in and talk to the doctor. Here’s the scoop to the best that I can explain it with my non-medical background. Our tests came back with a positive indicator for Down Syndrome. Let me just say this is only an indicator and does not give any definitive answers. For my age, my normal statistic to have a baby with Downs is 1 in 649 and per JUST the blood test, which is only blood, our chances are 1 in 207. A 36 year old has a normal chance of 1 in 270. SO, since it was just under that, they called us in to discuss further follow-up tests. I was still liking my chances of 206 out of 207 of having a perfectly healthy baby—but, it was still a blow to hear something might be wrong. Now, our next step was to go see a perinatologist (Specialist Dr. of Ultrasounds) for a genetic level II ultrasound and talk to a genetic counselor - this is all general procedure for positive indicators from the genetic blood test. That brings us to yesterday, when we made the trip to Overland Park to the Perinatal office.

The sonogram went really well and pretty fast. The Dr. looked at several things and told us everything looked good. He weighs 8oz. However, we aren’t measuring as far along as we thought (thought close to 19 weeks and measuring 17.5 weeks). She gave us our new risk level for our baby boy to be born with Downs and it is now 1:345, which is an improvement over the 1:207. Being that we were only 17.5weeks, our little man’s heart isn’t developed enough to get the type of views the sonogram Dr. wanted, so she wants us to go back in 4 weeks for another look.

Did I mention, we are having a BOY?!!!

Here's our sonogram pictures:
a) cute profile shot
b) scary face shot :)
c) another profile shot. Be sure to click on the picture as you can see he is sticking out his tongue. I think he learned that from Big Sister Ryane!