Baby Benson

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by Kathy on April 1, 2009 · 24 comments

in Baby Benson, Bob, Echocardiograms, Molly, Sean

  GIRL! 🙂   I would have shared that in my last post, but literally ran out of time when I was writing it. It also is news worthy of its own post! Anyway, Bob and I knew we might have the opportunity to find out baby’s gender today, as (some of you may recall) […]

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Greetings! First off, those who know me/the Axe side of our family know that we are notorious for trying to play April Fool’s jokes on each other. So being that today is April 1st, I want to be clear that no part of this email is a joke. Though it was tempting to tell you […]

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GD Free!

by Kathy on March 30, 2009 · 8 comments

in Baby Benson, Bob, Molly

I just spoke with a nurse from our OB’s office and found out that I am gestational diabetes (GD) free (at least for now)! My results were 83 and the nurse told me that under 140 is considered normal/a negative result. She also explained that they will test me again at about 28 weeks, but […]

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This morning we had our third prenatal appointment at our OB’s office. I am happy to report that it was relatively uneventful, just as we like them! 🙂 The highlights from today include that we got to hear Baby Benson’s heartbeat again on the Doppler and it sounded great and normal! To our surprise we […]

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is that we are (at least I am) often disappointed when people or events don’t live up to them. When Bob and I started planning what we wanted to do for Molly’s Birthday/Celebration of Life next month we told ourselves that we would share what we were going to do with our family and friends […]

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Baby steps (pun intended)

by Kathy on March 18, 2009 · 9 comments

in Baby Benson, Bob, Molly

Just a quick post to let you know I just spoke with the Genetic Counselor that Bob and I met with last Wednesday as part of the “First Trimester Ultra-Screen” test. It is a combined ultrasound and blood screen that helps identify babies who may have Down syndrome, Trisomy 13 or Trisomy 18. Our results […]

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