Wow!! Tomorrow is my last KC trip to Shawnee Mission Medical Center for my maternal fetal doctor appointments. With both Beckham and this baby it was noted that I needed to see a specialist due to the lupus and sjogren's antibodies that are present in my body. Thankfully I am asymptomatic for both of these autoimmune diseases so far! However when you are pregnant and have these antibodies you see a specialist to ensure there is no damage done to your fetuses heart. Essentially these antibodies can interfere with the communication of the baby's heart and if not caught the baby could need a pacemaker when its born. As a proactive measure, I traveled to KC from week 16 to week 28 for weekly PR intervals of the babies heart. We are so blessed that our little girls heart is in perfect working condition! You can read more medical stuff about these antibodies and pregnancy here:
http://neonatallupus.com/neonatal-lupus.html.
Also, due to my "advanced maternal age" I had complete growth scans of the baby at weeks 16, 20, 24, 28 and my last will be tomorrow. Things looked so go at her 16 week growth appt and her heart looked fabulous at weeks 17, 18, and 19. I guess when you start hearing that everything looks great (for 4 weeks in a row) you get a little comfortable and assume that you will hear the same news each week...but for us that was not to be the case.
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