Happy New Year!
We met with both the pediatric surgeon and our perinatologist this week. We now have more questions than answers (which is probably good since the answers we thought we had were not necessarily accurate). Baby will need surgery after birth... sometime. (We are still praising the Lord that baby will, Lord willing, be fine until birth - hooray!). Surgery will be depending on both baby's breathing ability and weight-gaining ability. There are about 4 or 5 "typical" scenarios that we could fall under. Each would require surgery after a different amount of time (hours, days, weeks or months). Part of us wants to just "get it done", but the Drs. would prefer that baby make it to 4 or 5 months and then do surgery. We are thankful that it is not a decision that we make, but that we can trust the Lord to do what is good "for we who are called according to His purpose." and that He will give us sufficient grace for whatever situation that is. We are also resting on His ability to do "above and beyond all that we ask or imagine.
One other piece of truth has helped me put this all in perspective. We have been going to the specialist since 22 weeks (23 weeks baby developed hydrops, drained at 24 wks, shunt at 25). We are now at 30 week. That's only 8 weeks. We have 10 left. A LOT can change in that amount of time. I need to remember that. The last 3 weeks the mass has stayed about the same, it has not been shrinking which we were hoping for starting at 28 weeks.
Thanks for your prayers and support.
In other news, we have had a wonderful Christmas. Meg's brother and aunt have been in town and Connor & Katie are very fun ages. Excited to work on establishing more traditions for next year to remind us to focus on the Lord instead of all the "other".
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