Thor Update

I hadn't seen Thor for more than a week until this morning! Last Thursday Dr. Silver told me that I can start coming in for ultrasounds once a week instead of twice, which is fantastic news. It felt very weird not to go in on Monday; I've gotten so used to being there. By the time my appointment rolled around today, I was excited to see him again.

The CVR the last two times had been 1.6, so we were thrilled that it was lower. Today it was 1.9 again. Major bummer. That doesn't mean it grew or anything, since Sarah thinks the margin of error is something like 0.3, but it would be so beautiful to see that number go down! On the other hand, she said the CCAM certainly looks smaller and that Thor is fattening up nicely. :) I noticed a big difference in his chubby cheeks this morning, and it looks like he has pretty, full lips. I just can't wait to get my arms around that little boy!

We also got permission to go to Minnesota for the whole week of Christmas, so we're leaving tomorrow and coming back Saturday the 27th. Our next ultrasound will be in 9 days! That is the longest I will have gone without seeing my baby in 12 weeks. (Wow, has it really only been 12 weeks since we found out? It feels like a lifetime.) The reason they're being so lax with us now is that the whole staff had a phone conference with Dr. Crombleholme in Cinncinati, and he explained to them how once the pregnancy hits a certain number of weeks, they have NEVER seen a CCAM start growing again. I'm 31 weeks now, so they can safely assume that we've hit the growth plateau and will be good until birth.

We were at a Christmas party recently and someone who didn't know about Thor's CCAM asked me if we had had an ultrasound. I just laughed. Yeah, we've had an ultrasound. We've had at least 25 ultrasounds. It was actually interesting telling this guy, who is also a parent, about the CCAM because that was the first time in a long time that I told someone who didn't already know about it. Most of my conversations about it now go like this: "How's Thor?" "The same, holding steady..." "Okay, that's good." It was kind of refreshing to have someone just say, "Wow, that must be really hard. Are you guys doing okay?" and feel sad for us and ask about the details. I don't expect or need people to act that way all the time, but it was just surprisingly comforting right then.

Well, time to do some more last minute running around like a crazy person before we get to chill with the family in MN...