Baby Update

I thought I would post a little baby update. Rosie baby #3 is doing well and growing fast.

Just a little background info for thoes of you who may not know... bloodtests have shown that I have some sort of antibodies in my blood. I had these antibodies while I was pregnant with Phearson as well. I had to have blood drawn monthly with that pregnancy however results always came back that it was "too scant to be identified".

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Apparently everyone has antibiodies/proteins in their blood. There are certain types however,that can cross the placenta and possibly be harmful to a baby. These certain types of antibiodies if crossing the placenta see the baby's red blood cells as foreign thus attacking them, causing the baby to become anemic and other hemolytic problems such as "hydrops"(the accumulation of fluid around a baby's organs).

So upon finding out that we were pregnant again, we started the bloodtests all over. Of course the inital test came back that I had antibiodies in my blood (Duh! I mean where would they go!) So then came the task of trying to identify them to find out if it could be potentially harmful to the baby. The test came back this time and was able to identify 3 different types... So off to the High Risk OBGYN doctor we went. Thankfully two of the three were insignifigant. There is one however that although "not likely" could potentially be harmful causing the problems listed above. So after starting weekly ultrasounds with the high risk Dr. and both Ryan and I having MORE blood drawn we got some good news. We found out that Ryan carries the antigen associated with "this specific" antibiody in his blood and this is how I probbably became "sentisized". I know, this gets confusing.... but overall it is a good thing because there is a high possibilty that the baby contains this part of Ryan's blood and therefore even if this antibody crosses the placenta it will not attack the baby's blood... YEA! So we have graduated from weekly ultrasounds to every two weeks. They still want to monitor the baby closely but the chances of complications are much less.

It is amazing how these little babies form, develop and grow over 10 months and how easily it is to have something go wrong. We feel so blessed with the opportunity we have had to have our sweet boys and for them to be so healthly. After having some complications and the numerous possibilities of problems we feel so lucky for what we have and are taking none of these little guys for granted!!