Last time I wrote I began by saying how nervous, and excited I was to find out the sex of the baby! If you don't know by now it's a boy, and we are SO excited! Joseph and I go in and have the ultra sound...and i went in the doctor knowing i was having a girl. After measuring some things like the heart, head, etc...we moved south to the good parts. The lady doing the ultra sound pointed to the screen and said..."and right here we see his boy parts." Joseph's face lit up, and he never stopped grinning..i was also excited, but shocked! In our family, we never have boys...so this was a new thing for everyone on my side.
After the ultra sound, we were sent in a waiting room to talk to the doctor. She came in and was super nice. She talked about the sex of the baby and so on, then asked joseph and i if we were familiar with kidney disease...both of us a little confused and worried said no...neither of us had it in our families. She then showed us pictures of his right kidney, and told us it was enlarged, and they were not sure why. She then went on to tell us we would be seeing a high risk OB doctor before the end of the week, and then may go to a pediatric neurologist. Joseph and I were shocked, we went from the highest of highs, to a low in less than a hour. The doctor was so nice, but could not explain all of it to us, because it wasn't her specialty. She told us it looked like polycistic kidney disease but she couldn't be sure. Before we left we had our appointment with the other doctor, and our next appointment with her......whew!
Joseph and I left that day on top of the world, because we were having a boy....but we also were very aware that something was wrong, and we had no clue what to do. Over the next day, I worried, Joseph would not talk about it, and we were holding on to hope and our God for the answer. People all over were praying for us, my mom's friend in washington state, and preacher we know in the Ukatan, and family and friends all around greer, and let me stop and say...we felt the prayers for baby wentzky, and that gave us comfort waiting on the next doctor's appointment
On Wednesday, November 12, Joseph and I went to Dr. Greig, who is a high risk OB. First off the nurse who did the ultrasound was beyond nice. She was so sweet and made a very difficult situation for Joseph and I better. We got to see his face in 4-d, and all his body parts...it was amazing to know this baby was inside of me, and depended on me for everything. After about an hour ultra sound, joseph and I were again sent to a room to wait for the results.
After about 3o minutes the doctor came in and talked with joseph and I. Thankfully, our baby did not have polycistic kidney disease...which was an answered prayer (seeing as the doctor told us this was fatal). He let us know that our baby had multicystic kidney renal difusion (I think this is right) It all comes down to his utera on his right kidney did not develop, and his kidney is full of fluid but has no where to go. He then went to tell us about the rest of the pregnancy and how it would go...
Basically I will be monitored closely for the rest of my pregnancy, we will meet and talk with a pediatric urologist, who will be there when baby wentzky is born. After he is born, if his kidney does not go down, it will need to be surgically removed, which is minor surgery. So we know at this point our child will only live with one kidney....and we are so thankful God gave us a spare!!
This week was extremely hard for Joseph and I. After the ultrasound on Monday, and the news we had there I found myself singing the same song over and over.....almost everyone knows it..
but it says...
God is Bigger than, the air I breathe, the world we'll leave.
God will save the day, and all will say, my glorious....
Singing this song throughout the day gave comfort to me knowing that The God I serve is bigger than any problem baby wentzky will face in the future. On Wednesday we found out great news, and that our boy would be ok, and would live a normal life. If you were one of the one's who prayed for baby wentzky, we are very thankful, and we felt a peace in the doctors office. I'll ask for you to keep praying, we have 19 weeks to go and alot could happen...so we still will appreciate the prayers...
I'm putting pictures on here for you to see of our beautiful baby boy...
Goodnight!
