More updates...

Thursday's appointment updates:

1. Rory is almost 4 pounds!

2. Her intestines are showing about the same amount of dilation as the past appointments so that is good news.

3. Most of her intestines (large and small) have now travelled to the outside of her body.

4. Her bladder is being pulled (the hole in her abdomen is small so I'm not sure if it will actually come out of the body like it did with Davis, we will keep an eye on it to make sure the pulling does not start to damage it.)

5. The ventricle in her brain that was showing some dilation is measuring more normal (they were concerned about fluid on her brain...they will continue to check it just to be sure.)

6. Her movement is good!

7. Only 4 weeks or less to go!

8. Our next appointment is Thursday, June 23rd.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRAYERS!!!

**Here are a few fun pictures of Davis at the Portland Zoo before our doctors appointment....

Monday

No news from Monday's appointment...I go back on Thursday for a long day of testing and hopefully we should have more info then.

Thanks for your prayers!

The Rory Report

We had a bit of a rough week last week...

On Thursday I couldn't feel Rory moving which is definitely not normal. I called my doctor and they had me go up to OHSU immediately for testing. We ran fetal monitoring tests and then did two ultrasounds. I have to admit I started breathing again when I finally heard her heartbeat on the machine! The doctor had a check list of things that Rory needed to do during these tests and she did not meet all the requirements so they let us leave but I had to go back the next day for more testing.

On the second day we started with ultrasound testing and again she did not meet the requirements on the check off list. When the doctor came in he looked pretty concerned and his first question for me was if I was at the appointment by myself...not usually a good sign (I let him know that my mom and Davis were playing on the hospital play ground.) He put us through more testing and decided that we could leave for the weekend (with plenty of contact numbers) and return on Monday for another round of testing.

I will go in for appointments on Monday (tomorrow) and Thursday and hopefully we will have more information by the end of the week. I will do my best to keep the blog updated :-)

Thanks for all your prayers!

Davis' day at the park

(Looking out the window of the play structure tunnel!)

(Davs took this picture of himself on the way home from the park!)

Rory's Nursery...

Brian, Davis, and I just created Rory's nursery! The nursery in my way of reminding myself that we will get through all these stuggles and bring our little girl home!!!

Here are a few pictures of how the room turned out...

(This is a tiny little Raggedy Ann doll we got for Rory!)

Davis calls Rory "Re-Re" and he knows this room is for her :-)

Hanging in there!

Hi everyone!

We had a good appointment today for Rory! Here are a few things we learned...

1. She is about 3 pounds!!! (She gained almost a pound over the last two weeks which is great progress!)

2. She is in the 47th percentile for size (Davis was lucky when he was in the 10th percentile so she is smokin' him in the growth department so far!)

3. Her intestines look the same as they did 2 weeks ago which is good news because it means they are not worse...things can change very quickly with her intestines but we will take good news whenever we can!

4. A ventricle in her brain looked a little off but the doctor assured us that this is fairly common and not to be alarmed but they will check on it again next appointment...just something to pray about.

5. I am really thrilled because our doctor is hoping to conduct a study with his colleagues on potential causes of gastroschisis and asked us to be a part of it!

6. Rory's intestines are not pulling on her other organs so far like it was in Davis' case.

7. I will start fetal monitoring with my next ultrasound/consult appointment on June 16th.

Thank you for your prayers!