Update on Baby Carl!!

The update is here. The doctor’s appointment on February 22nd has come and gone. First and foremost I want to thank you all for the prayers and encouragement for Baby Carl. This child truly is loved by so many and I can’t wait for him to meet everyone and feel that love surround him every day of his life.

I want to say I felt little to no anxiety right before the appointment. God really gave us peace knowing that no matter what the doctor was going to say that it is Him that decides all things. So this appointment wasn’t filled with foreboding or doom. The appointment held excitement for me because I got to see him. Baby Carl is getting big!! He weighed approximately 4 lbs and 12 oz. and we still got six weeks to go!! Our Dr. says he is definitely at a healthy size.

Then the real reason for our visit became the focus. Baby Carl didn’t want to really cooperate though. He only wanted to show one side of his head. So ladies you know what that meant? I had to get the wand. Definitely not pleasant, but the outcome was pleasant. The ventricles did not grow!!! One vent is still at 17mm and the other reduced to 16.8 mm. The doctor was extremely pleased. He was honest with us and said he expected it to go up because of the drastic change we saw in January. He also got a good look at the corpus callosum. With a ventricuolomegaly diagnosis the callosum is usually affected by the dilated ventricles, but Baby Carl’s corpus callosum is completely healthy!! So my doctor’s opinion is that his condition is stable. We still have to meet with the pediatric neurosurgeon but he is confident that she won’t recommend surgery!!! They will check his vent size one more time before delivery on March 22nd. We are going to keep praying for perfect health for Baby Carl. The vents didn’t grow and one showed a decrease so we are going to ask God for further decrease!! All things are declared in the name of Jesus!!!

I have no ultrasound pics for this post because they are on the other computer. So I will have a follow up post to this to show you our cute boy. John is particularly proud of one of the pics. You will see why, lol!

But in the meantime we thank all of you for the prayers and encouragement. And let’s keeping praying for Baby Carl!!


Love John, Aimee, and Baby Carl!!