All is Well

I am going to gush for just a moment here, please feel free to skip.
My newest little Burnside Boy is just perfect, as far as any doctor can see. Apparently the ultrasound technician saw something and proceeded to send me running and practically screaming to google anything I could think of. What I found made me feel better, but I did not sleep well last night.
I spoke with the nurse this morning and after a few hours of phone tag and persistent questions on my part it turns out that all that stress was seemingly for naught. The radiologist had nothing to note except normal functions as for wee Grover (my in utero buddy) and his cardiac functions. I made my OB re-check the ultrasound and the nurse called the radiologist to be sure and all professional opinions concur. My perfect little man is seemingly fine and I can breathe again. I have also come out of my dark cave and resumed normal speech patterns.

The world does revolve around me, thank you.

There is a test that is offered to pregnant women and it's commonly called a Triple Screen. It has a very high false positive rate and is slowly falling out of fashion due to causing much needless worry and being quite inaccurate. When offered this Triple Screen I decided to take it for two reasons. One, forewarned is forearmed as far as I can see. And two, if I get a positive I get an early ultrasound. In addition I had this test with my son and it was negative so it was just a small addition of reassurance.
Well, the good news is...IT'S A BOY!
And the not-so-good news. My Triple Screen came back positive but the ultrasound showed no problems to match the test.
More not-so-good news. I have placenta previa. If this continues until late in the third trimester I will have a scheduled C-section. No big deal for the baby boy, very bad for me.
And the really not-so-good news. The ultrasound did detect a defect in my boy's heart walls. He has all four chambers but there is a thickening of a chordae. I do not know what this means so if anyone has any information I would welcome it. My doctor should contact me sometime tomorrow and I will hopefully have more information and a fetal eco (heart test thingy) scheduled.
For now I am going to assume all will be well but I will try to update my page when I can.

It Could Always Be Worse

Couple arrested in Christmas Day brawl over video game

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1141384

Wii are the world

By Richard Weir
Saturday, December 27, 2008

Woe is Wii.

A Portsmouth, N.H., couple yesterday blamed each other for their black and blue Christmas when they got into a violent fight - and arrested - after an argument over a gift of the popular Nintendo video game.

“This was the worst Christmas ever,” Randi Young, 24, said a day after she and her boyfriend, Heath Blom, 26, were both cuffed and carted off by cops on misdemeanor charges of “domestic-related” simple assault.

Police were called to South Street home where the couple lived with Blom’s grandparents at 1:55 p.m. Christmas day. Officers arrested the pair upon observing bruises on each of them.

Portsmouth police said tempers flared because the boyfriend was smarting over not getting the present he wished for. “Heath Blom wanted a remote-controlled airplane for Christmas, and not the Wii,” said Sgt. Kuffer Kaltenborn.

Blom, a flooring contractor, said the cops got it wrong, and that he had asked his grandparents to get him the $1,000 airplane for his birthday next April. “You can’t fly an RC plane in the snow,” he said.

But he admitted disparaging the Wii game to his grandma and angering his girlfriend, who accused him of being an ingrate.

Blom, still nursing a shiner from the fight, said she called him names “for not liking the Wii.”

“He said he hated it. It hurt her feelings,” remarked Young, who said her boyfriend “told his grandparents that he changed his mind” about waiting until his birthday and wanted them to buy him the pricey plane for Christmas. “When he didn’t get the plane, he got really upset. He acted like a 10-year-old kid,” she said.

One fight led to another and soon Young was packing her bags. Blom said he got angry when his girlfriend hid the Wii game. “I thought she was walking off with it.”

“He dragged me down two flights of stairs, by the hair,” Young said.

But Blom said, “I stood in the doorway trying to block her. She punched me in the eye. She punched me three times. I said ‘That’s it.’ And I pulled her hair.”

Ricky Young Sr., 52, said Blom and his daughter, who he said was left with a “knot on her head” and a swollen nose, “fight like little kids. . . But to fight on Christmas, of all days. That’s crazy.”