On Tuesday I went to my regular OB for my prenatal checkup and everything there seems to be great, besides they want me to possibly gain more weight. I have only gained 5lbs so far and she said they would like to see at least 10lbs ( if only they knew I eat all the time :) ). My blood pressure and everything else looked good !
Yesterday we went to the Fetal Care Institute (FCI) and we got good news there too. They said the babies heart looks amazing and very strong :) We got a head lung ratio of 2.8 ....last week was 2.4 so it is moving on up. I asked Dr. Yang where or what do we need to be at or what is a healthy baby at usually. He( Dr. Yang) said that with a non CDH baby they have BOTH lungs that are at 2.8 or a lil higher, but we only have been measuring the right lung since the left lung is so compressed and hidden by the other organs. Yang said it appears that right lung could be close to a NORMAL lung but we are not sure how much left lung is there b/c it is so hard to see ( We do know that there is some there we seen it right after the Gel surgery ). I know both Dr's were excited with the left lung they did see when they could see it so I feel good with thinking that he has a "good" amount of left lung. We are very excited that that lil guys right lung is close to a normal lung. We have a MRI next Wednesday and that should give us a better idea of what the lungs look like and the volume they have. Last time the MRI showed that his right lung only had a 12% volume and that is when the head lung ratio was in the low 1's. With it now being high 2's we should get some good volume numbers. They also measure the fluid around the baby b/c with CDH babies the fluid can build up faster than normal but so far I am still in the good zone and they haven't said anything about it being close to high so I was happy to hear that too!
They gave us some more 3D pics but being a stubborn lil boy that he is ( Dustin's son for sure) he kept putting his arm in front of his face and then he dug his face into the placenta. So we will try again next week I suppose. Since they only weigh him every other week this week he weighed 2lbs 15ozs.... almost 3 lbs!
Please keep our lil guy in your prayers we still have a long way way to go and need every thought and prayer that we can get for him. Thanks for the prayers thus far, I don't think I will ever be able to say thank you enough <3 I must stay pregnant for at least 56 more days to make it to 37 weeks .... they still have not given me a date for delivery.
Yesterday we went to the Fetal Care Institute (FCI) and we got good news there too. They said the babies heart looks amazing and very strong :) We got a head lung ratio of 2.8 ....last week was 2.4 so it is moving on up. I asked Dr. Yang where or what do we need to be at or what is a healthy baby at usually. He( Dr. Yang) said that with a non CDH baby they have BOTH lungs that are at 2.8 or a lil higher, but we only have been measuring the right lung since the left lung is so compressed and hidden by the other organs. Yang said it appears that right lung could be close to a NORMAL lung but we are not sure how much left lung is there b/c it is so hard to see ( We do know that there is some there we seen it right after the Gel surgery ). I know both Dr's were excited with the left lung they did see when they could see it so I feel good with thinking that he has a "good" amount of left lung. We are very excited that that lil guys right lung is close to a normal lung. We have a MRI next Wednesday and that should give us a better idea of what the lungs look like and the volume they have. Last time the MRI showed that his right lung only had a 12% volume and that is when the head lung ratio was in the low 1's. With it now being high 2's we should get some good volume numbers. They also measure the fluid around the baby b/c with CDH babies the fluid can build up faster than normal but so far I am still in the good zone and they haven't said anything about it being close to high so I was happy to hear that too!
They gave us some more 3D pics but being a stubborn lil boy that he is ( Dustin's son for sure) he kept putting his arm in front of his face and then he dug his face into the placenta. So we will try again next week I suppose. Since they only weigh him every other week this week he weighed 2lbs 15ozs.... almost 3 lbs!
Please keep our lil guy in your prayers we still have a long way way to go and need every thought and prayer that we can get for him. Thanks for the prayers thus far, I don't think I will ever be able to say thank you enough <3 I must stay pregnant for at least 56 more days to make it to 37 weeks .... they still have not given me a date for delivery.
Julia:
ReplyDeleteSounds like a lot of good news at your appointment. Lung growth is always a good thing. I am praying you make it to 40 weeks. :) Don't let the baby even hear you talk about 37, we want him in there as long as possible! Take care ~Janna
So glad to hear wonderful news on baby Campbell.
ReplyDeleteI hope you don't mind that I've included Campbell's blog on our own blog as one of the "Blogs we Love".
Hoping things continue in the very promising direction they are.