Sunday, April 24, 2011
Happy Easter
Celebrating the gift of salvation felt extra real to me. I was reminded over and over of how unworthy I am and how Jesus saved me anyway. My worth is in Him.
My friend that passed away from cancer a couple weeks ago is currently benefitting from Jesus' suffering and even more from Jesus overcoming death. She is living eternal life right now- all because of Jesus.
I'm so thankful to you Jesus. You gave everything for me. I want to live my life all for You.
He is risen- He is risen indeed!
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Friday's ultrasound
This bottom picture has edits done to the right arm (left side of picture).
He really has two arms, two legs and all his digits.
The ultrasound tech asked us before she started if we wanted to know the gender of the baby. Jon and I said in unison "YES!". It's a good thing she asked before she turned on the ultrasound machine because as soon as she turned it on we were looking at Greyson's bottom and his parts- first thing he showed us. :)
I had to drink lots of water as to have a full bladder as instructed by they doctor. I did that, but I also wanted to make sure the baby was awake so I had three mini pieces of candy.
The tech said that she couldn't "get this baby to hold still". I sheepishly said "that might be the candy I ate before I came in". She smiled and looked at me and sarcastically said "thanks!".
So he wasn't extremely cooperative in getting certain shots she needed at first. She never did get a black and white (2D) profile pic that was super clear. He kept looking at us. We did get to see all kinds of cool things though.
His beating 4 chamber heart. It was beating about 158bpm.
Kidneys- although the ultrasound tech kep showing me what she was looking at, I never could really see the kidneys.
Imbilical cord and thank goodness he wasn't squeezing it like the baby the tech told us about. She said she saw an ultrasound for a high risk pregnancy where the baby's heart rate kept drastically dropping. They did an ultrasound only to find the baby literally squeezing the imbilical cord hard enough to stop enough blood flow to himself that he would eventually start to pass out, his grip would release enough that the blood flow would return to normal and he'd wake up. However, since the cord was still in his hand he'd do it again.
I figure, that's the only thing in there for babies to play with! Just kidding. I would have been freaked out too just like that baby's mom did.
We saw the lens of his eyes. Too bad there's no color. Come ON technology!
He had his arm up over his face a lot of the time.
He yawned at the end of the ultrasound and she got some good pictures of that. It's fun to see them doing that.
He weighs 10 oz and is right at the 50th percentile for all his measurements.
We saw his full bladder (and mine, I was glad for the bathroom break after she got the pics she needed).
We saw long fingers, perfect little feet, and Jon's nose. We think he looks more like Jon than me. A couple views looked more like Emma but mostly, he looks like his daddy.
The tech was pleased to see that everything measured exactly to the day of our original due date- September 15th. I'll still have him at least one week early via C-section.
We've decided to go ahead and deliver in Akron and I am in the process of being referred to a the high risk doctor that I saw up there after I had Emma.


