Update on Little Cooper...

Matt and I are happy to report we have received GREAT news the past couple weeks at our doctor's appointments.

Two weeks ago, we began hearing a "normal" heart beat and thankfully it has continued to beat "normal" ever since. We saw the pediatric cardiologist this morning and were very comforted / pleased with her diagnosis for Cooper. She truly believes the medicine I am taking for Cooper is correcting the problem...there is some little flap (no idea what she said it was called) that is very flopsy / mopsy, which she thinks is causing the irregular heart beat. She predicts after birth, this flap will get itself under control and Cooper will be just fine and not even have to take medicine at all. Now...she used lots of BIG medical words and when Matt asked her to put it in English, she got a big smile on her face and said, "you need not to worry, your baby is going to be just FINE"!

Upon his arrival, he will wear a heart rate monitor for at least 48 hours. Dr. Shores says 48 hours because we need to make sure the medicine that I am taking gets out of his system so we can get a true reading of his heart beat with no medicine in his system. After the 48 hours, he will have some tests done, which Dr. Shores (cardiologist) will read. If we get "normal" heart beats from the monitor and the tests are good, he will not ever even go see Dr. Shores. This is her prediction...

I will see Dr. Shores in a month for her to look one more time...after that point, she says she cannot get good prenatal pictures so we will just have to wait until he arrives to do further testing. Now...we have been released from the specialist (Dr. Perry), and I will see my regular doctor (Dr. Cole) every week just so she can listen and make sure the medicine is still working and the heart beat is still normal. As long as the heart beat continues to be normal, Dr. Shores sees no reason for me not to deliver with Dr. Cole at Woman's and no reason I cannot have a vaginal delivery...unless of course, something happens in labor, which could happen in anyone's labor / delivery.

Needless to say, we are all smiles at this point and proud of our little man for being a trooper...he has been put through the ringer as someone wants to look at him at least once a week! And just for the record, he is still "wild" and takes "beautiful" pictures!