On Wednesday I had my 28 week appointment with my regular OB. The glucose test, finger prick, and Rhogam shot. As much as I dread the needles honestly the worse was probably the finger prick. Basically we just checked the heartbeat again and that was it. Dr. Lake Decided to start the Bio-physical Profiles (finally figured out the name of the ultrasound test they are starting) next week since I had an appointment with Dr. Patterson the next day.
On Thursday we had an appointment with Dr. Patterson. I was anxious to see how Tristan was doing but also very nervous. We had our questions all written down so we wouldn't forget to ask anything. We started with seeing the Lee the UT who did our Level 2 scan. She showed us everything and talked to us a lot. She told us that the OI test came back negative for Type 1 and 2 which is a relief but I don't understand why they didn't test for 1-4. The lab told her specific things to look for on the scan and if she saw those then they would do the other tests but if not they would wait until he is born. She said that they are now leaning more toward Camptomelic Dysplasia but I really don't think it is because we ruled out pretty much all the symptoms that babies with CD have on my 24 week scan at the regular OB. The scan took about an hour or so. Arms and legs are still behind and was hard to get measurements of. Looks as though one arm is bowed and the leg they had previously said was probably fractured is turned awarkadly...basically his foot is up near his face. They didn't see any new fractures. The head was normal, still a little extra fluid but they said nothing to be concerned with unless it becomes more. His chest and ribs were a little small but again they were not concerned. The ribs didn't look as mineralized or ossified as the rest of his bones but there were no breaks or anything. All of his organs looked good. She spent a lot of time looking at his heart and kept telling us that everything was good and what they liked to see. We could see signs of breathing and swallowing. He is VERY active. Then we went in the for the 3D scan. We got lots of pictures. He is the most adorable thing I have ever seen!! They kept saying that they thought his eyes may be close together and they were able to rule that out. He looked absolutely perfect to me!! We got one really cute picture of him where it looked like he was smiling!! After the scan we went in to see Dr. Patterson. I really do not care for her at all. She went back over the ultrasound pictures with us. She said she was a little concerned with the heart. She saw a couple of places that she thought were a little enlarged (not any major parts of the heart) but she said she wants us to see a cardiac specialist just to make sure because if he is going to have a heart condition we need to know before he is born. So now we are waiting on a call to find out when. All in all I feel as though the appointment went well. I still think that it is OI but maybe a milder form but Dr. Patterson said we are going to wait until he is born to do further testing. It seems as though she doesn't really think it is CD either and pointed out that there are other types of OI (which ofcourse I already knew).
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