Friday, January 17, 2014

Week 28 Update (December 18, 2013)

Friends: 

Foster's heart block continues to concern us far worse than it concerns her. Today was another good day at Duke.Her heart status remains unchanged. Still no sign of fluid collection or heart failure. Her heart rate was even up to 55 BPM, whereas it has been 53-54. We'll take it! Last week I was "prescribed" coffee and chocolate (for real), which might account for the increase. 

They performed a full body scan where they measured her to see if she was growing appropriately. She is 2 pounds, 5 ounces. This places her in the 14th percentile for size. They said they would be concerned if she were under the 10th percentile. So far her growth looks ok. 

I asked the fetal medicine doctor (one we had not seen yet), whether the five-week long span of status quo made it more likely that she would continue like this to term. He said it goes both ways and it would be impossible to predict what group we would be in. Sometimes they go to term and sometimes the heart will start to take a turn after a period of stability. Every day is a step closer to her being big enough to be able to get the intervention that she needs.  My "big" goal at the beginning of this ordeal was to get through Christmas. Almost there. God is so good. 

We are so thankful for each of you. Merry Christmas! 

Much love,

Drew & Anna

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