The day after our ultrasound Hank stayed home from work with me. We didn't really know what to do, we just didn't have the energy. We got a call from winnipeg Health Science at 3 that day telling us that we had an appointment for 1030am tomorrow with the specialist. We couldn't believe how fast that was!

Aug 1/2008- Today we are on our way to the city to find out some more info. We decided that we wanted to know the sex of our baby so we were going to ask them if they would do that for us. We waited in the waiting room for 2 hours before finally getting called in. We had a 45 min ultrasound with the tech, and then Dr Reed came in. At this ultrasound he actually showed us our baby we could watch the whole time on the screen!( in winkler you just lie there looking at the back of the moniter). We asked him if he could tell us if we were having a boy or girl and he said that he would try but the baby wasn't cooperating. He showed us the babys heart, the kidneys the legs and arms, they couldn't get a good look at the head though because the baby was squished into the placenta. But we saw the ear and mouth opening and closing! Then all of a sudden he said "oh i know what you are having" the baby had just spread its legs and we got a really close view! we are having a boy! the name we decided on was Noah Gabriel.

He then took us into his office and said they think that it is Anencephaly but there is a chance because of the kidneys that it might be something called Meckel Gruber. He showed us some textbook pictures and they were pretty scary! but we really didn't think that, that was what it was. He then asked us if we were wanting to "induce" the labour or if we were wanting to carry till full term. Inducing was a really polite word for what they were meaning! but we told them that we were carrying till full term.

We were then sent to the Geneticist and he asked us so many questions! one of them was if we were related! lol. But i guess they have to ask that cause some people are. he explaind to us an amniocentesis and that they would test the babys chromesomes to see if they were ok. but there was a 1 in 200 chance that might cause a miscarrage but we decided that we would do it. That was one of the scariest things i have ever had done to me! but i made it through lol. Once we were done that we were finally able to go home at 4:00.

I got a phone call from the geneticist at work 2 weeks later! when i heard it was him on the phone i was soo scared! but he told us that the babys chromesomes were normal, so that is one thing that we do not have to worry about!