What a roller coaster… Today Niki had a Dr’s appointment to see how things are progressing and as they were looking at the baby with the ultrasound machine Dr. Sheridan said, “Wow, I haven’t seen that before!” Those aren’t really the words you want to hear from your doctor who has delivered hundreds of babies… It looked like the babies guts were by it’s head outside of it’s stomach, otherwise known as Gastroschisis. Niki called me at home to pack up a bag because we were going to have to fly to Anchorage to have an emergency C-section, so I got Nya out of the bath and started packing. To make a long story short it turns out that after 30 minutes more on the ultrasound machine Dr. Sheridan came to the conclusion that Niki’s uterus is stretched so thin that it was actually Niki’s guts that she was seeing and the baby’s guts are neatly packed where they should be. Another observation that she made was that Niki’s running a little low on amniotic fluid. Does anyone know where to get more? I guess this was one of the reasons that it was hard to tell whose guts were whose since the baby wasn’t totally surrounded by fluid. Since we’re so close to the due date (Sept. 7th) and we’re a quart low, doc stripped Niki’s membranes and made an appointment for us to go to the hospital tomorrow morning to induce if things don’t happen before then. Finally! It’s gonna happen! We’ll keep you updated.