Big Brother

We are so excited that Charlie Banks is going to be a big brother in September!!  It was a rough and scary start to our second pregnancy. Jimmy was in Africa so I headed to our first appointment alone. When the ultrasound began I could immediately tell by what I saw and my doctors face that things weren't right. They told me what everyone hopes to never hear...it did not appear to be a viable pregnancy. The sac was collapsed and although you could see the flicker of a heartbeat on the screen it was not strong enough to detect.  They sent me for blood work that that and again two days later and told me to come back for another ultrasound in a week where they didn't expect there to be any sign of a heartbeat. It was a sad and long, long, long week. With Jimmy still gone, I headed back the following week and much to my and my doctors surprise we saw a healthy baby on the screen. Then we saw another not healthy sac. There had been TWO and one did not survive...which was the sac we believed we were looking at the previous week. I was in shock as this did not even cross my mind as an option. We had a few extra ultrasounds the following weeks to make sure the additional sac absorbed itself and that everything was progressing normally with the healthy baby. What a miracle!  We are very happy and know that Charlie Banks is going to be a great big brother.

 

He was very interested in Hadleigh when she was over the other day.  He did "slap" her in the face though, so we do have some work to do on learning to be gentle.