We have one issue at this point, which is her umbilical cord. Normally an umbilical cord has three vessels, two arteries leading to the baby, and one vein leading away from the baby. This umbilical cord is two vessels, one artery and one vein. The perinatologist (high risk doctor) assured us that this is pretty common and most of the time there are no risks. One thing we have to watch is her heart, as in some cases the two vessel cord indicates an issue with the heart. But our baby has a strong, healthy heart with four chambers that is looking great! We have to take Amanda back on November 18th for another scan of the baby to take a closer look at her heart again, and then again on December 2nd. It appears that we will be having a scan every couple of weeks to keep an eye on her growth progress, but hey, that just means we get to see her more often!!!
Oh, how have I made you wait through an entire post without revealing her name?! Please meet, Virginia Faylea! Virginia is a family name on Dan's side, both his maternal and paternal grandmothers' name, and also his sister's name :) We made her middle name up by combining my mother's and his mother's middle names, Faye and Lea.
And without further ado, here are our most recent pictures!
This is her left foot :)
This is her face, it's hard to make out unless you know what you're looking at....but she's looking down a bit.
And this is the "money shot" showing her girly parts! Yup, definitely a girl!
We are so blessed!
