burdens

In the first month of her life, Addilyn had two ultrasounds.  Angela and I didn’t tell many people about it because there was a chance that we would find out that everything was as it should be and there was nothing to worry about.  The first ultrasound was because at her three-day appointment the doctor noticed she had a sacral dimple and because of how it looked thought there was a chance she had spina bifida occulta.  This wouldn’t have been major, but something she would have to deal with for her whole life.  The second one was a few weeks later when her belly button wasn’t healing as quickly as they would have liked and there was a chance her bladder was still connected to the umbilical cord.  Again this wasn’t super serious, but would need surgery to fix.  In both cases, the doctor told us that those would be the worst case scenarios and they just wanted to be absolutely sure. [Read more…] about Worrying About Addie’s Ultrasounds