Baby Wyatt Update

I am sick - I have been throwing up since about 2 a.m. last night, which is obviously not fun. But it means I get to lay in bed for a day while Davis takes the kids to his brother's, and so I have a chance to catch you up on my appointment with my new high risk OB yesterday.

Did I mentioned that we decided on a name? I don't think so... Baby Boy will be Wyatt. Phew! I can't stand not having a name for my baby, so pretty much as soon as we find out the sex (which was three whole weeks ago!) I need a name ASAP.

Speaking of gender, yesterday the ultrasound tech asked, "do you want to know what you're having?" and I said, "good thing I already know and want to know - because that is definitely a penis on that screen!" There is not even a sliver of doubt in my mind that we are having a BOY. Happiness. Henry and Wyatt will be 19 months apart - the exact same spacing as Sophia and Amelia.

He is so funny - I have had a lot of ultrasounds with him (six? seven? eight?) and for weeks now we cannot get a shot of his face. As soon as the ultrasound wand gets near his face, he either flips over and turns away, or covers his face with his hands. It's so adorable and was making me laugh yesterday. So, still no pictures of his sweet little face, but he's got a cute foot/calf

He kept streeeeetching out - and I said, "he better enjoy it while he can!" It's about to get crowded in there! He's about ten and a half inches long now. They said yesterday he weighed just over 13 ounces. He is finally moving more. For weeks now he has been totally mellow (Sophia hardly ever moved when I was pregnant with her, and now she's a spaz, so I've learned it doesn't mean anything ha!)

So, now on to all the medical stuff... this is where I talk about all the things going on inside my private parts, so feel free to skip if you're not into that sort of thing...

Although I have am starting to have contractions already (like I did with Amelia and Henry who came early), right now my cervix is long and everything looks good. Although there was definitely a blood vessel across my cervix yesterday, this doctor was not 100% convinced that it was not actually just the baby's cord down there. Wyatt's head was down on my cervix and in the way, so he wasn't clear about whether we were looking at cord or vasa previa. Not having vasa previa would be a huuuuuuuuuuuge relief (!) but we are not getting our hopes up yet - since two other doctors (a radiologist and another high risk OB) saw vasa previa at two separate earlier points in my pregnancy, it is unlikely that the cord would be hanging out in that same location this whole time. My doctor said he would not rule out vasa previa unless he did at least two more ultrasounds, but it was a glimmer of hope.

In the meantime, the plan is for me to start weekly progesterone shots this week (today - yippee) and come back in two weeks for another ultrasound. Then I will go back two weeks after that (24 weeks) for another ultrasound, and after that nonstress tests and weekly ultrasound to check the length of my cervix. If it begins to change like it did with Henry, I will go into the hospital and we will just take it day by day to determine when it's time to bring Wyatt into the world. The hope and plan is to make it to 34 weeks and do a c-section then. If by some miracle my cervix has not changed by 34 weeks, then we might even monitor it closely and wait another week or two, with 36 weeks being the latest that we would wait. Of course that would be great, but I am not really planning on that being the case, considering my history. BUT we have a fabulous, fabulous NICU and I have a friend who is a neonatologist there, and I would have zero concerns about delivering even as early as 32 weeks - Wyatt would need some breathing and eating help at that point, but his long-term risks for issues would be really small, and the risks of vasa previa rupturing if it looked like I was going into labor would just be so great.

So, really it was great news - Wyatt looks perfect, is measuring on target, he's still very much a boy, and as of right now my cervix is long and with the progesterone shots maybe we can keep it that way. I feel like I am in good hands with my new doctor and am on board with monitoring things closely and just taking it day by day. I would be lying if I said I wasn't scared - vasa previa is SCARY. There are far more horrible, tragic, really really scary and sad stories out there on the internet than anything reassuring, which is why I stopped reading anything after I read a few medical journal articles. Now it's just a matter of praying and trying to stay healthy.

So, right now I'm going to go drink a bunch of water to make sure I don't get dehydrated while I'm throwing up.