A healthy baby on the way!

Yesterday was Esther's 18 week ultrasound. It was a stressful time for me (Marc), since it was this ultrasound that told us that Lucas had brain abnormalities - and it was going to be with the same ultrasound doctor who suggested that we abort Lucas.

Our ultrasound technician (Beth) was great. She quickly focused in on the brain and within a few minutes told us that everything looked perfect! A wave of relief washed over me, and everything from then on was a bit of a blur. We told her upfront that we didn't want to know what the sex was (what does it matter anyway? They told us Lucas was going to be a girl!). We got to see baby peanut moving around a bunch, and got to see a bit of the baby in 3D - although it's a bit early to actually make out any real facial features in the 3D pics.

The doctor came in after the technician left. He also confirmed that everything looks perfect with baby peanut, but mostly seemed interested in knowing more about Lucas (from a clinical diagnosis standpoint). We told him about the joy he has brought to our lives and about how great he is doing. He urged us to make a follow up ultrasound appointment just to make sure that baby peanut is still OK in 6 weeks. We agreed so that we could get out of there quicker, but we didn't like the idea of going back to that office. Esther's OB agreed with us that this appointment seems unnecessary, and asked us to give him a call in a week so that he can have a chance to look over the scans. As long as everything looks fine to him, we'll cancel the follow up ultrasound.

We're grateful to God for the wonderful news, and we're so excited to meet the little one. We really need to start thinking about some names...

Ultrasound 1/20/10