He's healthy! So grateful this situation turned completely around..

We had the rest of our anatomy scan today... and he is completely healthy! It is such a huge jump from 6 weeks ago... at our first ultrasound at 12 weeks, they saw a cystic hygroma behind the baby's neck... we were told that we had about a 10% chance of a normal, healthy child. The genetic counselor would not give me ANY hope... so much so that she scheduled me to terminate, but that day I did a CVS (the same as an amnio, but done earlier than 16 weeks)... that weekend I was a mess... I felt like a failure... I felt like this was my fault, something I did wrong. Well, 5 days later she calls me back saying that the amnio came back completely normal... we cancel the termination but are told we are now at 33% for a healthy child. At 16 weeks we did an early anatomy scan, well part of it, what they were able to do at that gestation. Well, at 16 weeks the cystic hygroma had cleared itself up! It was completely gone! The high risk doctor came in and said it was pretty rare for it to be completely resolved, but it was gone! So we went back today at 18.5 weeks, and finished the anatomy scan... and he is PERFECT! The other high risk doctor came in today and said that there is no evidence that there was ever an issue, so much so that he went back to my first ultrasound pictures to see if they possible "overshot" the diagnosis, but no, there was def something there at the 12 week scan... but it has resolved itself! I can't believe it... really, it was almost harder to believe that he is okay and completely healthy now after the way the doctors and the genetic counselor spoke to me at 12 weeks... they were SO SURE of themselves, so much so that they actually had me schedule to terminate... convincing me that that was the best decision for me and my child.

We have a fetal heart echo on July 28th, where they will take a bunch of pictures of the heart, but they look VERY closely at his heart today and the high risk doc said he sees absolutely nothing wrong, but we will let the pediatric cardiologist take a look, just to make sure.

He doesn't even need to see me again for another ultrasound until Sept. 15th when I am 28 weeks, because now he is completely certain the baby is fine.

I am besides myself with gratitude, love and have been very humbled by this experience.

I learned from this how doctors will always tell you the worst possible outcome.. but they gave me seriously NO HOPE... and even today the doctor said to us, "I have seen many woman with baby's that had a cystic hygroma have normal pregnancy and births." Umm .. ok, so why the hell wouldn't they of told us that when they originally saw the cystic hygroma??? I don't understand.

Thank you Universe, for this blessing of my beautiful, healthy son! I am so excited and ready to be a mother to him... thank you..

❤️ we are so ready to meet you baby... and will love you endlessly. ❤️

The tech really disappointed me with the pictures she printed out this week... she took over 100 pictures of him today, but the ones she printed up aren't the best 😕 ... he was being stubborn today also and staying pretty curled up! But this is him upside down, on his side!!

🤗👋🏻 Hi baby!!