Sept. 7th doctor appointment

Well, we just never know what to expect when we go to the doctor. Usually bad news or even worse news. That was not the case Friday.

Thursday evening we headed north to Portland. A nice 3 and 1/2 hour drive. We got a hotel room and relaxed for the night. Friday morning we were at Doernbecher Children's Hospital for another huge round of tests, meetings, and stress.

Nicole had a fetal echo cardiogram first thing. Then Dr. Rice came in with this strange look on her face. Immediately we thought the worst. Then she says "We are a bit confused with Christian's heart. It is not doing anything that we expected." Again we thought the worst. She followed by saying that the mitral valve no longer had the backflow problem like it had every time previously. Now was the valve thickening and not allowing flow or was the valve strengthening and that was the reason for no backflow? She did not know and would not know until Christian is born. Another perplexing thing was that now the blood was going through the aorta pretty well where before it had not been flowing but just a trickle now and again. Very strange all around let me tell you! We met with the cardiac surgeon and he was very optimistic that Christian may not be as traumatised by surgery if his flow is improving and may even need less invasive procedures later on. Good news! So we left with our hearts being a little lighter.

Anyway, we did get some more cute 4-D pics of Christian but I do not have them in my possession yet. I will put some on when I do.

Thanks for checking in on Christian. It does look like he will be making his appearance in 6 to 8 weeks.

Grandma Whee