Friday Doctors appointment roller coaster

I am so behind with my post, I had a busy weekend.  Lets start with my doctors appointment on friday, It was going good until the medical assistant called me to tell me the doctor wanted me to make an appointment with genetic counseling I froze for like 5 mins then said why? She said one of the test came back positive for down syndrome in my mind I was like OH HELL NO this can't be happening again.  I was confused because 2 weeks ago when I called for the results they told me everything came back normal she explained the first results came back normal but the last test I took showed the elevated numbers for down syndrome. I went back outside and told Kevin what the MA told me we both were just quiet. My brain was racing I was so confused,angry. I kept saying God wouldn't put me through this again He just couldn't. I expressed how I felt to Kev, he wasn't worried he was like lets talk to doctor and go from their but we both agreed no genetic counseling.  After what seemed like forever we were finally called in to see the doctor he was very pleasant asked how I was doing? I explained good until I spoke to his medical assistant, he looked at me and said why? so I explained what she said, the doctor said well their's good news and bad news the good news is all your test came back normal the bad news is on the last test you took there was a slight elevation for down syndrome he continued saying but the first test is more accurate then the second test so they are going with that, the test report shows low risk for any of the trisomies and one other genetic disorder  I was so relieved by the news.

He showed me the percentage on the paper it was 0.01% not even 1% chance. After talking the doctor wanted to see if we could hear the heart beat Leah didn't like that and started crying so the doctor said she could lay next to me while he listened. We listened and we listened and there it was my little boys heart beat I was so happy to hear it even leah smiled.  I was 100%  sure my baby was fine. I asked if it was ok for us to refuse the genetic counseling he said yes it wasn't a necessity just a precaution we just had to sign a paper saying we refused and thats what we did.

Now for the Medical Assistant I personally feel they shouldn't talk to the patients until the doctor talks to the  patient and can better explain the situation, talking to her felt like she was confirming it.  She didn't know the numbers or what is considered elevated but she told me I had to see genetic counseling but couldn't explain why tsk tsk.  I was so excited about the news I forgot to mention to the doctor that it's not a good idea to have the assistant tell patients anything about diagnoses or findings. Lets leave that to the doctor.  All in all it was a good appointment and we are feeling good I just thank God so far all is good and I am depending on My Heavenly Father to keep it that way.

Now some pictures of our little Prince at 14 weeks 3days

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The results are in...

My appointment for the blood work was on a friday and i had 14 day to get the results.  On the second friday exactly 14 days I decided to wait until monday I felt if I called exactly on friday they probably would have said the results didn't come in yet wait until monday so i skipped all that and just waited, the slowest weekend ever it......just........ slowly ..... went ..... by.  Bright and early monday morning  called and got great news all testing came back normal and baby is looking good :-), Once we got passed the most important results i asked about the sex of the baby, unfortunately those results weren't back yet which was weird I figured it all would have come in together.  I was told to call back which I did and thats all they kept saying call back call back....



Last week on the 13th I decided I wasn't calling back i would just wait until my doctors appointment on friday on the 21st which was a whole week and  a day away.  On the 14th i had an appointment to do an ultrasound so they can measure the baby and the baby's neck as I was speaking to the tech she asked if I had done the genetic testing I told her I did and was waiting for the results of the baby's sex she was confused because like I thought it should all come in on the report.   On the 17th Monday morning I was talking to a friend and like most of my family and friends who knew we were waiting on the sex was getting impatient, which was funny it's not like i purposely wasn't telling them the sex I wanted to know too, Anyway monday after talking to my friend and she's telling me give her the doctors number so she can see whats going on ha!ha!ha! I decided to give them a call and see if they got any news.




I spoke to the one of the medical assistance and apparently the sex of the baby wasn't checked off the phlebotomist forgot to request it, the lab had to do it they had the results but the person or whoever it was wasn't gonna be in until 1pm I said ok what else could I say right? Right I felt they weren't going to call me back  so I had my heart set on getting the results on friday.  Well, around 2pm I got a call from Kevin saying the lady called him and she had the results so we three way called the doctors office and we were told we are having a BOY!! Thats all I heard the young lady say Kevin was just screaming on the phone YES! THANK YOU GOD! LAUGHING! Then crying he was just so Happy it brought tears to my eyes to see him so happy this is something we wanted and so thankful that God gave us another blessing.  Everyone kept saying we were having a boy and I felt deep down we were having a boy but I thought that three times and three times I had girls who I love dearly wouldn't change them for the world.  This pregnancy is so different I am sick all the time change of smells make me throw up, everything makes me sick its too much to write out I lost two pounds so far I am not complaining and I know the doctors wont complain either ha! Everyone is up to date now. We are having a healthy baby boy I cant wait to see my little man *day dreaming* I will update my blog on saturday about my appointment tomorrow. Stay blessed and highly favored in Jesus.

My Rainbow Baby

 MOST of us know the biblical story behind a rainbow and what it represents, the promise God made to us centuries ago.  I've always appreciated a rainbow the very few times I have seen them anyway, the beautiful colors Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue and Purple, The representation.  I grew up in Brooklyn,NY we don't see much rainbows at least i haven't.  Until the passing of my 2 month old last year.  Hannah had Trisomy 18 a chromosome disorder that in the end took her life.    I would stroll through my Trisomy 18 groups and read mom's writing about having there rainbow baby at first I  didn't understand what they meant by "rainbow baby" until one of the moms explained what a rainbow baby was.  A rainbow baby is getting pregnant after losing a baby/child.  When Hannah passed away the thought of another child frightened  me, the thought of possibly going through another pregnancy and finding out that something could be wrong or something as simple as a miscarriage would throw me over the top so Kevin(my husband) and I decided we wouldn't talk about having another child for a least a good 5 years,  maybe 7 months later I started thinking about our rainbow baby and did I really wanted to wait 5 years? We have 2  girls but we both wanted a boy so after talking we decided to start trying in september of 2013.  I discontinued my BC to let my body regulate itself, Well my body didn't take long to regulate because I am 11 weeks pregnant with my rainbow baby YAY!!

At first it was disbelief if it wasn't for the horrible morning, afternoon and night sickness I probably would not have believed I was pregnant plus it was a little overwhelming it took me a little while before  wanting to telling family and friends. After taken a pregnancy test the positive presented itself.  I scheduled an appointment with my gyn, when we went to the doctor did an ultrasound and there was my little rainbow baby and of course I looked for the heartbeat we couldn't hear it because it was too early but seeing it was enough for me the doctor said I was seven weeks along *all smiles*.  My doctor told me I had to come back in when I was 10 weeks to get all genetic testing done that was the earliest it could be done.  The longest three weeks of my life i was so worried every cramp or discomfort scared me, one day i just prayed and decided to give it to my heavenly father all my worries and fears i gave it to him that helped me a lot i still worried but not nearly as much. three weeks had finally came around we went in got the blood work done after the technician was done drawing my blood she asked if we wanted to know the sex of the baby when the report comes in  I was like heck yeah I didn't say that i played it cool looked at kevin with the what you think do you want to know look he said definitely and I shook my head in agreement and off went my blood work.   And so we wait...




I look forward to sharing this journey with family and friends.  Most of you reading this read my last blog about my journey with Hannah www.footprintsofhannah.blogspot.com and she was a blessing to so many people so I pray after going through that journey that this new journey will give parents who are going though something similar or just lost a child this can be there shining light in a dark time.