Ok, that's the last time you get to call her that. We know, this picture is weird looking, but we're hoping that is just the nature of the ultrasound picture and after she has had a little more time to grow she'll come out cute as a button. Or, as Erik puts it, not all babies are cute, but all babies are precious. Just for the record, I think she is cute in this picture. And I think that thing that looks like an eye glaring is not really an open eye, but some weird thing with the ultrasound picture, because if you look below it, it looks like her eyes are closed and she is sleeping.
Well, the purpose of this post was not solely to present Baby Alien Rammelsberg. Unfortunately, we have discovered some potential complications. I have been debating about whether to blog about this or not and finally decided we would rather have more people knowing and praying for Baby Girl. So here's the situation: At our 20 week ultrasound, the doctor could not confirm the little bambina's great vessels of her heart were developing properly so he scheduled her for another ultrasound at 28 weeks after she had time to get a little bigger. We were told it was probably nothing and they just could not get a good picture because of her position. Last Friday, we went in for the 28 week ultrasound and he still could not confirm proper development. In the scariest conversation I have ever had with a doctor, he explained what could be wrong and referred us to a specialist. The worst case scenario is that she will have to be born a little early in Seattle and then whisked off to heart surgery right after she is born. The best case scenario is that there is nothing wrong at all. He did say that all other signs point to nothing being wrong. She is growing just fine and has good vitals and all that, and if she had some kind of congenital heard defect she would likely be much smaller than she is now. And then he left us with this gem of advice: "Don't lose any sleep over this." Yeah right!
So we are just asking for your prayers that everything turns out to be just fine. We are doing our best not to worry. The appointment with the perinatologist is scheduled for next Wednesday, which coincidentally is my birthday. I am hoping for a really great birthday gift of a bill of clean health for the bambina! We will keep y'all posted on the results.
