I missed posting on Valentine's Day... Happy Belated Valentine's to all the lovers out there. I had a great holiday. First pedicures and a yummy yummy lunch with Bella. Then, a shopping trip from BH (gift cards are lovely when you're poor...a whole world of opportunity opens up to you). A dozen beautiful red roses and a weekend of rest and great ( Read more... )

*squee* M&A are having another boy! A little munchkin for my monchichi. The 19 week ultrasound was today and everything is healthy and wonderful. Munchkin has a big head -- just like his big brother.

I so wanted a little girl to dress up and play dolls and teach to be a feminist. But there's no reason I can't do that with yet another boy!*

Monchichi was released from the hospital today and is on his way home! This is far ahead of schedule -- he was expected to be in the hospital a week or two from his surgery last friday -- but he is a strong and healthy little man.
There are lots of doctor's visits in his future: a two week followup with his surgeon, three months with oncologists and ( Read more... )

Meet my Monchichi!


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Okay, so the subject and the icon have nothing to do with the content of this post. But they do go together so that's something. Also, Panda made it for me and so I have been dying to use it.
I have not updated in quite awhile and I have so much to say that I'm going to try to just touch on stuff. I have bolded a word or two to let you know what ( Read more... )

M&A went to Cincy yesterday for their first visit at the Fetal Care Center there.  They had a battery of tests done and took classes all day. Unlike the high risk ob here, the doctors there knew way more than M&A about the SCT (the type of tumor it is).  They were flooded with information and M&A are still processing all they learned.  There was ( Read more... )

Here is the latest Monchichi news from my brothers update to their page:

Next appointment Tuesday July 3rd 1:40pm....
Thank you all for your wonderful support, it really has been amazing and very helpful to us. Our appointment went well today, about as good as could be expected. The tumor has not grown much if any at all (it is now about 1 cubic ( Read more... )

Here are the first images of my impending nephew where he looks like something other than a blob! :)


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Um... so now I'm freaking too.  The way it was described to me does not exactly jive with what I'm reading online. course that could be because I am doing the stupidest thing possible -- looking at Google images.  Try it.  Google Sacrococcygeal teratoma and just look at the images. 
Then read how it has a 50% mortality rate in fetuses because the ( Read more... )

So my bro and sis-in-law had an ultrasound done to find out the gender of their baby yesterday and now we are battening down the hatches and preparing for snips and snails and puppy dog tails!

Unfortunately not all the news was really good.  Turns out the little guy has a tumor of some sort on his butt. (I am secretly thinking tail!  I'll have a ( Read more... )