It's a boy! And boy do we need prayer....

We went to the doctor today and had our ultrasound which showed very clearly that we are having a baby boy. Yippee!

Unfortunately, the ultrasound ALSO showed that I have a complete placenta previa. A complete previa means it is fully covering my cervix at the bottom of the uterus. I am not on bedrest, but basically everything but that: no lifting Layla, no exercise, no rides in the car up to Denver and of course no flying.

Our plans to go to Georgia for Christmas on Monday are cancelled, as are any plans to move back to the Middle East in January.

Quite tragically, Tom had a SURPRISE CRUISE for us from January 4-8 which is also cancelled. We were going to fly to San Diego and take a short cruise down to Mexico. How sad for him to make those big plans and then to have them cancelled. I’ve told him he still gets all the love points even though we can’t go….

I have another ultrasound scheduled in four weeks to check if there is any change. There is a 50/50 chance the placenta will shift positions as the uterus grows. If it shifts enough, we can fly. If not, we are here in the US until the beginning of May when they would do a C-section at 37 weeks to prevent any chance of my going into labor.

We don’t know what to think about all this yet, but wanted you all to know and to ask you to pray that the little guy will wiggle around enough and make that placenta shoot up to the top where it is supposed to be! There are obvious significant risks to both the baby and myself in this situation, but it seems clear that if I can stay mellow, there is also a chance everything will work out fine.

Thanks for your prayers.

In addition - I am supposed to take my big test for being a Personal Trainer tomorrow at 830am (for the third attempt at it) and Tom is totally sick in bed. sigh.....