WE HAVE SEEN THE STOMACH!

Well everything is better than expected! We went to meet with the “Team O Surgeons” yesterday fully prepared for them to tell us Cooper would be having surgery right after birth.  We did the ultrasound with the tech and waited…… and waited……. and waited. Then the Dr came in and told us he was holding off on the “team” coming in for right now and wanted to take a look himself.

WELL HE SAW COOPERS STOMACH! And he saw it many times.  It was not too big, not too small, it was just right.  We were over the moon excited…… This means that he probably doesn’t have a problem at all in his esophagus and we do not, at this point, need to worry about surgery when he is first born!

As of right now Cooper is a perfectly healthy little boy with an extra 21^st chromosome.  He is weighing in at 4 pounds 6 ounces and is in the 32^nd percentile. Everything that we were worried about from the beginning has worked itself out. 

So what is the plan now… Well I am having LOTS of contractions but they are not really leading to labor at this point in time.  I am expecting to have these contractions on and off for the next 4 weeks and then schedule to have a repeat C-section 8/17/2011.  Unless I suddenly go into labor, which is fine at this point because Cooper is considered a full term baby, that is the planJ