Baby #2 Update!

I’m not sure if everyone caught it from my (super long) Christmas post, but we are having another girl!!!! We are absolutely thrilled!!! I had a gut feeling that baby was a girl, Amelia said from day one that baby was a girl, and Daddy also thought from early on that baby was a girl.

During this pregnancy I have been seeing my regular OB as well as a perinatologist (a high risk OB). The perinatologist is monitoring my blood sugars since I have developed gestational diabetes again. He is monitoring baby girl to make sure that she doesn’t get too big too quickly, and he will also monitor my amniotic fluid levels since Amelia was induced at 34.5 weeks because my fluid levels were dangerously low. It was only by God’s grace that my previous doctors did an unplanned ultrasound on her around 33.5 weeks, which is when they saw the low fluid. They had me rest for a week and drink as much water as I could, but the amniotic fluid was even lower at the next ultrasound and I had to be induced. We are hoping that with weekly monitoring starting at 28 weeks we will be able to catch any problems early and keep this baby girl cooking until at least 37 weeks!

My first ultrasound with the perinatologist was 90 minutes long, and obviously very detailed. They checked absolutely everything and baby girl looks perfectly healthy! We are so incredibly thankful! I was having a hard time getting truly excited about this baby because I am much more aware now of all the things that could go wrong. When I was pregnant with Amelia I never even thought about the fact that she would be anything other than perfectly healthy – oh, to be that naive again! I am very relieved to know that our baby girl is healthy!