Week 30 - Almost There!
We had another ultrasound last week but with the events of Jacob's fractured leg I am a little behind updating everyone. We actually got excellent news! The anemia level that they measure for the baby dropped last week from 1.31 to 1.2 which is excellent. They took about 5 measurements and as I stated in the last post they take the highest of the 5 which was 1.2. The doctor said that he is now not overly concerned about the intrauterine fetal anemia since there has been no significant increase nor steady incline over the last month. Now this doesn't mean that the new baby won't be born anemic because most symptoms of ABO incompatibility don't present themselves until after birth, but it is nice to know that everything with the baby is going well. They will still be monitoring the baby every two weeks and still measuring the anemia level each time, but without a drastic change I will most likely give birth before the anemia level would get up to 1.5 which is indicative of moderate anemia.
Next week we get another ultrasound with measurements so it will be exciting to see where the baby is in terms of his estimated weight and percentile. He was in the 59th percentile for size at 27 weeks and this will be month later. By this time with Jacob we were well into the 60th percentile and if you have ever seen Jacob he is always mistaken for at least 6 months to a year older than he is. He is a big boy and definitely looks older than he is. I will be curious to see if this little one follows in his big brothers footsteps.
We got a few good ultrasound images with this last scan and even got a good 3D image. Now I will warn people who aren't good at "viewing" ultrasounds that you will probably think this next image is just a blob, but I will have another image below it to try and help you out. Paul and I are now ultrasounds experts since between Jacob and this new baby we have probably been to over 60+ ultrasound appointments.
Two fingers under nose, eyes just above, righ arm up to the side of the head.
Arm up by side of head, hand under chin, clear image of nose and pouty mouth.
