03.12.10

More Excuses (But Really Good Ones)

Posted in family at 8:24 pm by david

Yes, I’ve been absent from the blog for a while. Yes, this will be more excuses. It has been a very hard past month.

On Valentine’s Day we found out that Jennifer was pregnant.

This joyful news came right between the deaths of both of my grandmothers (events which warrant much more than a mere mention in passing in a blog). We planned to tell folks about it after our first ultrasound (at 8 weeks), so we could make sure everything was fine. That was on Mar 2. The only problem was, we did not get the news we were expecting. Our baby was there with a strong heartbeat, but the doctor saw something else. There were some things that did not look right and could indicate a partial molar pregnancy. You can look that up if you want, but basically it meant that, if it was a molar pregnancy, we would lose our baby. Jennifer handled it much better than I did—I just barely avoided fainting in the doctor’s office (really). We were scheduled for weekly ultrasounds until the doctor could state definitively one way or the other.

This past Tuesday we had the 2nd ultrasound. This one was much more promising. The baby was growing and the problems were disappearing. The doctor now has us at about 90% for being clear of the problems. Cautious optimism is starting to replace fear and terror (on my part).

So, in a very small nutshell, that is where I have been the past month.

More on my thoughts on impending fatherhood (for a second time) soon. (Sneak preview: We are so blessed by Anna, the law of averages has me a bit concerned.)

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