Level II ultrasound 03/08

We prepared ourselves for the worst as the level II ultrasound begun. This tech was so friendly and the doctor was in there as well and I really liked him! What was so amazing was that this time, there was a huge tv screen in front of me so I could watch the entire ultrasound and everything was magnified! I found so much comfort in this because I had been praying that we would get a doctor who knew what they were doing, and that we'd get a tech who was friendly. We ended up getting so much more than that! One of the first things the tech announced was that it was a GIRL!! And coming from Adam's family that is dominated with boys, I thought I'd be one of those moms with 4 boys, praying for a girl to finally come, and here she was, our first child, a girl. She was beating the odds already! I'd like to say she had no markers at all! Her head/brain/skull looked great, her arm and leg measurements were great, feet looked good, bladder, kidneys, other organs, all there and functioning. He did notice she had an SUA cord (single umbilical artery) which isn't too big of a deal. Although it can be a marker, it also is a condition that exists on its own, especially in girl babies and is usually accompanied by a growth issue like IUGR. Because of the way she was sitting they couldn't get a good shot at her heart or her hands. The doctor said he thought he saw something on her heart but honestly wasn't sure, and we'd have to wait about a month for another ultrasound after she had grown some. Needless to say, we actually felt pretty good leaving there because we basically saw nothing wrong (besides her growth issue and SUA) which we knew could be a problem all on its own. And we were so happy we found out she's a GIRL! We did elect to do an amniocentesis to know for sure, because there was an obvious issue going on because of her growth, and the fact that my AFP results came back with 1:2 odds for Trisomy 18, its seemed like the right thing to do.The next 2 days were full of praying. Praying for the amnio to show that it was not Trisomy 18 and that everything was normal and that all we would be dealing with would be an IUGR baby, which I was completely educated about and ready to take on. And praying that God's will be done and that however the diagnosis turned out, we'd know it was all in His plan and that everything would be okay.