Meet Jonathan!

Meet Jonathan!  Our sweet little man is due May 17th!  It seems like forever away some days and just right around the corner the next day.

This picture is from last week.  He was 26 weeks, but measuring 10 days ahead.  He has been measuring 10 days ahead for a while now.  My guess is that he will be hear a few days early.

We found our we were pregnant days before I was due to have my period.  It was the perfect timing because we told all my family together.  We had already had a family vacation arranged for that weekend.  We are super excited to meet him and can't wait for Joseph to become a big brother.  He loves his little brother.  He loves to lay on my belly and to kiss it.  He has felt him kick and move and will smile when he does.  He first felt him move when he was laying his head on my tummy and he got a good kick in the cheek.  Luckily, he just looked at me stunned.

We found out he was a boy at 18 weeks.  We were soooo sure he was a girl.  We did all the at home test.  You know, where you pee on the baking soda and the red cabbage.  The Chinese gender predictor calender...everything said he was going to be a girl.

We were sent to a local college to get a level 2 ultrasound, due to Joseph's medical history.  The first thing they looked at was the head.  The tech goes "hmmmm."  I looked at her and told her "that doesn't sound like a good hmmm."  His ventricles were on the upper end of "normal."  knew right away it was a boy.  Boys are more likely to have external hydrocephalus.  I was worried about that.  I cried.  Not because he was a boy...but because of worry for him.

Anyway, I was told I needed to be monitored with more ultrasounds and they planned to do another at 25 weeks and one closer to his due date.

Last week, I had my most current ultrasound.  Well, his lateral ventricles jumped from 9 mm to 11.1 mm (left) and 14.2 mm (right).  So...now we are less than a millimeter from being considered hydrocephalus.  My husband is the best and is really my rock (beside God).  He is so optimistic that things will be fine.  I guess it is a woman's thing to worry about everything...especially things out of our control.  What does this all mean for Jonathan now?  Well...I am now getting ultrasounds at every visit until they say otherwise.  Just to monitor him and to make sure it doesn't get worse.  I will keep you posted.