Pip

I thought I would start this blog to keep friends and family updated about Pip. 

Pip is due October 23, 2012.
We do not know if Pip is a boy or a girl, and won't be finding out until s/he makes his or her appearance in October (or November).

On July 13th we learned that Pip will most likely (98% chance) need heart surgery when he/she is born. It was a lot for both Jeremy and Ellie to take in, even though it is (we think) the exact same thing that Ellie had 28 years ago when she was born.
For those of you interested, it is called Total Anomalous Pulmonary Intervenous Return.

After some time to process and some thinking, it is a good thing to know ahead of time when we can control where labor and delivery will take place as well as prepare ourselves for this to happen, unlike my parents when they were ready to take me home and then weren't allowed to but instead had to rush to a different hospital.

Previous to getting pregnant, Ellie went through various tests to be sure her body could handle being pregnant. There weren't any issues, and during that time they also told us it was a 5% chance that a baby would have any heart problems that Ellie had. Obviously, either they don't really know or we fell into that 5% and this must be hereditary, which we didn't know before.

We still have a lot of questions that we hope to get answered when we go back to the U of M/Children's on August 22nd for another fetal heart echo and who knows what other tests ;)
As long as Pip stays inside Ellie, and continues to grow, the better off he or she will be when they are born and need heart surgery.

Since there isn't much we can do right now besides wait and try not to worry, any prayers are welcome :)