Update on Our Little Baby Girl A's Heart

Just a quick update before I attempt (again) to go to sleep. I have found I have a grand new sleeping pattern...

• 6:30am: wake up (thanks Munch), cook breakfast, drag Lizzie out of bed, feed kids
• 9:00am: Munchie nap... Mommy shower and nap. I mean out stone cold on the couch nap!
• 11:00am: Munch up and Mommy up.
• 7:00pm: Become beyond exhausted.
• 11:30pm: Bedtime for Mommy and Daddy.
• 12:30am: Frustrated with laying there for an hour, give up and get up
• 2:30am: Back into bed... and we begin our cycle again at 6:30am!

It stinks... but in about 10 weeks I'll have 4 more little boogers to keep me company :)

Speaking of my boogers, I wanted to jump online tonight to write an update on our little Baby Girl A's heart. And you thought I was just going to razzle and dazzle you with my sleep schedule!!! Which was actually a tangent and completely not the reason that I am sitting here on the computer at 12:30 at night! But, it's written and I'm sticking with the content :)

My mom and mother-in-law both had plans today, so I called my wonderful sister-in-law to see if she could come to the rescue and watch my kiddos. Having two of her own (2 and 7mon), I felt guilty even asking - she already has her hands fully blessed!! True to character though, she was happy to take them in and watch Munch and hang out with Angel for a few hours today. Munch loves playing at her house and I'm excited for the stories we'll be able to tell as our boys grow up together!

As for my visit to Saint Peter's, I was so nervous about the appointment that I had almost gotten myself sick by the time I was in the waiting room. The ultrasound specialist (I'm sure there's a technical name for them, I just am too lazy to google it right now) took a look at everything for about 45 minutes. The Pediatric Cardiologist came in next with the wonderful and talented Evil Dr Doomstress to conduct their own Echo Cardiogram on Baby A, which took another hour.

The findings: One small hole, which they called VSD, in her little heart. The Cardiologist said from the looks of it though, it should close by itself by the time she is 2 years old, if not before, without surgery!! Also, they see this less likely linked to other complications then to it!

We have a follow up appointment with the Pediatric Cardiologist in 5 weeks and beyond that, they will give Sweet Baby A a visit in the hospital for an Echo after birth.

We're so relieved and happy! I was so worried we were going to loose her which, although I always knew there was a possibility of loss, I could never imagine it this far along. We're so grateful!