This has been such an emotionally draining week filled with worry and stress. On Saturday morning I opened my mail from Friday and I received a letter in the mail from my doctor's office saying that I needed an ultrasound ASAP and that my blood tests had come back abnormal. My doctor's office was closed but I called and had the doctor paged and he called me back. Basically, the Quad Screen blood test came back abnormal with a chance for our baby to have Downs Syndrome. RML and I were so stressed out by the thought of it. My doctor scheduled me for an ultrasound on Monday because he felt that my dating was incorrect and that I might be further along than expected. So we spent the weekend thinking about the possibility that our child could be sick and had to wait until noon on Monday for the ultrasound.

According to the ultrasound technician everything seemed to be fine and that my dating was incorrect and my due date is August 9th instead of July 27th. This puts me not as far along. I'm in week 17 now whereas I had thought I was at week 19. They reran the blood tests with these new dates and they still came back abnormal. My doctor then called me and told me he wanted me to go to a specialist at the University of Texas hospital downtown for a level 2 ultrasound and possibly an amniocentesis test. After researching online RML and I decided that we would wait to get the results from the Level II U/S and then determine if we wanted to get the amnio test done. This test is very scary (in my mind). They take a needle and go through your belly into the sac and withdraw amniotic fluid. There is a 1 in 200 chance that you could miscarry or the baby could get an infection if the puncture hole does not reclose. Anyway, we had the ultrasound yesterday and the doctors there felt confident that the baby looked fine and showed no signs of Downs. We chose not to do the amnio since everything looked fine.

We go back next month for a follow-up U/S to make sure everything still looks good. Thank you God! We are both so relieved and can put this behind us now. Even if our baby did have Downs it doesn't change anything. We aren't going to abort a living baby just because she isn't perfect. By the way, we are having a baby girl! RML and I are just so thrilled to be having a healthy baby girl that I think RML is over his disappointment that it wasn't a boy like he had wanted.

Wednesday evening we went to church for Ash Wednesday to receive our ashes and we both prayed so hard that night. I felt a peace that night after church that everything would be ok. Sunday evening was a different story. I was praying before bed and I completely broke down. RML comforted me and we knew that we could get through this together no matter what. I love my husband so much even if he can be a jerk sometimes (haha).

On a lighter topic we put our house on the market this week and went to look at a house last weekend. RML fell in love with it. This house would need major redecorating before we could move in but the floorplan is wonderful and it has a beautiful pool and huge yard and is in a quiet gated community with beautiful homes surrounding it. We would have no neighbors behind us and the closest on either side are spaced nicely. The things that would have to be redone to this home to make it livable is that it would have to be repainted throughout, recarpeted and RML would like to change out the tile floor in the Dining Room to hardwoods and retile with a nicer tile in the family room and kitchen. Other than that it's a beautiful stucco home. I guess we will see how quickly our house sells. Our realtor is really great and I like her a lot. She wrote a great write-up for our house and she is trying to strike a deal with the realtor at the house RML likes. I like the house too but he is in love with it. It's so funny to see him so excited about something that we only looked at once.