Today we got some great news about Lacee! At my last ultrasound on June 22nd she was measuring 20 weeks and 1 day even though she should have been 22 weeks and 6 days. It has been exactly 2 weeks since that ultrasound and today she is measuring 22 weeks and 3 days. That means she has grown 2 weeks and 2 days in the 2 weeks since my last scan. She has also gained about 4 ounces and weighs 1 pound now. On June 22nd she weighed 12 ounces. She has grown really well over the past 2 weeks and that is a great thing! We were really happy about this!
She also did really well on her fetal well being assessment. She was able to demonstrate some breathing and even had the hiccups. The fluid also looked good. It is still in the low end of the normal range. She had great motion and tone. She was moving a lot during the scan and that actually made it a little hard to see some of the breathing. My mom and I weren’t sure what tone was and Dr. Decker explained that it was how she was moving and her range of motions. Motion just measures if she is active where tone looks at how she is bending her knees and arms or is she just limply holding them. Dr. Decker said that motion and tone go hand in hand. The uterine artery Doppler test showed good blood flow just like last time!
Lacee is still measuring very small even though she did a great job growing these past 2 weeks. Her gestational age is 24 weeks and 6 days and she is measuring 2 weeks and 3 days behind that. She is still below 5% meaning that 95% of other babies her age are bigger than her. They did not give me her exact percentage. Her Abdomen is measuring at 21 weeks and 4 days. So it is a little behind the rest of her but Dr. Decker said that is not abnormal since it is not a huge difference. She is still considered symmetrically growth restricted. As long as Lacee continues to show good results on her fetal well being test, good blood flow on the UA Doppler and continues to show good growth then the plan is that they will get me to the highest gestational age they can. This means weekly scans for me which will include the fetal well being test and the UA Doppler. Then bi-weekly I will have a scan that includes both those tests as well as a growth measurement. My next appointment is July 14th at 9am and then again on July 21st at 9am. I also still have the Fetal Echo on July 20th at 11am. I have to come prepared to go into the hospital at each appointment just in case a test doesn't turn out well.
For now we still do not know what is causing the growth restriction. The tests continue to point away from a placenta problem now and more towards either she’s just going to be very small OR another issue we do not yet know of and the only way to determine what that is would be to do an amniocentesis. We are not going to do that because there is a risk of early labor and we want to keep Lacee in as long as we can. Right now we are trying not to focus on the unknown but more on what small successes we are having. These past 2 visits have brought us so much hope. The doctors were not very hopeful but Lacee is strong and we are determined to do all we can to pull her through this. We are going to take this day by day and week by week because that is the only thing we can do. We thank God every day for all we have and just continue to pray that he keeps watching over us and giving us strength to get Lacee as far as we can! We also can’t say enough about how great our family and friends have been during this time. It is through ours and your prayers that we are making it through this!
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| Lacee with her Arm up at her face |
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| Lacee's leg and foot |
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| Lacee's profile |
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