April 1 marked the beginning of your 25th week of growth. It also marked the last week of year end and my busiest time at work ever. Needless to say, you really threw us for a loop this week. I had my regular scheduled Dr. apt on April 6th and they told me that I have single umbilical artery. This means that in your umbilical cord, there are supposed to be 3 vessels. 1 that brings nutrients in, 2 that bring waste out. Well, you only have 1 bringing the waste out, so your little tiny body has to work harder to get rid of the waste. From what I can gather, 75% of the time, there are no problems and you will come out happy any healthy. However, there are risks and so they referred me to the high risk clinic at the hospital. The WORST thing is that they do nothing until 28 weeks…. so we wait.
We have found it good to know that this is pretty common and we know people who have had the same risk and they have lovely awesome healthy kids! So all that to say, you are just going to start getting special attention again and we get to see you more often due to increased ultrasounds to make sure you are growing and gaining enough weight, especially while we go through the last 12 weeks together. They scheduled a bunch of blood tests for week 27 and then an ultrasound and an apt with the high risk Dr during week 28.
Needless to say, this was a pretty stressful week for all of us but we made it. I kept my mind off of this by working, A LOT. I also slept, A LOT. The best part of the week was that my heartburn seemed to go away or at least subside a great deal. We did not go back to ice cream and chips, but instead we ate more salad and fruit. We drank more water and you continued to get the hiccups and to attack me from the inside. You have also started to have your own opinions about my sleeping positions. You have no problem letting me know that I need to move….. and although my feet are still VERY swollen, the weather is becoming much nicer and sandals are an option now. Overall, we got this.