After four appointments this week we now know...

that we have to wait and see.

Grrrrr. I don't like that phrase. It's a good thing, really; it's just becoming hard to live with week after week. Deciding on one course of action or another at this point would means that things aren't going well. But things are going well--the CVR, depending on how they measure it, has either dropped to .5 or stayed the same at .8. Maybe I've mentioned it before, but the mass is a tricky thing to measure; there are two different ways to do it; and it's not an exact science.

Besides our ultrasound, we have also done a consultation with the pediatric surgeon, a NICU consultation and tour, and a midwife visit with my one-hour glucose test. We didn't lean much, but a few things we did learn:
- Baby is up to 2 lb. 13 oz, which is in the 60th percentile, so he is growing well.
- The heart appears to be starting to shift back towards the left where it belongs.
- There is no magic number that determines where and how we deliver--it depends on the opinions of a variety of doctors. (This shouldn't come as a surprise to us by now, but we are both people that like to think of things in terms of numbers and facts.)
- We probably won't have to do an MRI in utero. Baby will probably have to do one on his own sometime after birth.
- The surgery to remove the Sequestration/CCAM will probably happen at around 3 months.
- Baby will likely spend some time in the NICU after birth even if he isn't having problems so they can observe him and make sure he's doing ok. The amount of time could vary from a few hours if he's fine to several days if he's having trouble.
- It's sounding more and more likely that we will not have to do a C-section.

That's all for this week's appointments. Next week we get to go back to doing just one--the ultrasound is scheduled for Wednesday. Until then...