I am still alive and well, just been busy working two jobs and growing a human being inside my uterus. I’m currently 34 weeks pregnant, and I have approx. 6 weeks left. It still surprises me just how much time we have left until I get to meet my little one as there is still so much to do around the house to get ready for its arrival.

I am just going to give pregnancy & live update using some bullets as there are some things I want to have documented before I forget the dates they happened.

• When I was 14 weeks I experienced some mild bleeding, and I went to my local ER to get everything checked out. After waiting over 4.5 hours to be seen by someone who could “confirm” that everything was ok. I got to see my little one for the first time on ultrasound. The technician was the nicest person I experienced that whole day, he even gave me a hug as well as gave me a long strip of pictures of the little one.
• A few weeks later (2 or 3) I got a phone call from my midwife saying that some blood work for genetic testing came back as a possible “positive for having a chance of down syndrome” I was given the odds of 1/200. When my age range for DS should be 1/1200. I was given basically 24 hour notice and was set up with yet another ultrasound, this one was more of a “dating” ultrasound to figure out just how far exactly I am along as that can skew the results of the genetic testing, even being off by a week. That was the moment my pregnancy became real to me.
• Bryan and I talked about our options and discussed the odds we were given. A half a percent chance, when you break it down. We went to the dating ultrasound and we are right on schedule for where baby should be at 16 weeks (?)
• The following week we got in for an appointment at the local Women’s Hospital where we had a genetic screening ultrasound done, where they looked at how the baby was developing and to see if there any visible genetic abnormalities. After that appointment we met with one of the top genetic specialists at the hospital, who went over our results and talked about what it means to have a special needs child, what our options were (abortion, do an amniocentesis to find out 100%, or keep) and just to talk about our feelings with her on the whole issue at hand. She had me crying on a few occasions, but I chalk it up to the obvious stress of the situation as well as the pregnancy hormones. She explained to us that the ultrasound showed no visible abnormalities, as well explained how my previous bleeding in my 14th week could cause the blood work for the genetics stuff to come up as a false positive. The women we talked with was very “doctor” and kept pushing that we should do a amniocentesis to find out for sure, and to put this issue to rest. When discussing the procedure turns out there is a 1/200 change of a miscarriage. We opted not to have the procedure done, we would rather not take the risk of something happening. It is our baby we will love it no matter what. Over the next few days Bryan and I talked some more and decided that all the signs (ultrasound good & the fact there are often many false positives for this type of test) that we will just continue on our happy little way, and decided against the amniocentesis