We had a check up at Duke today just to measure AFI, which was great. They had to do an u/s to measure the fluid so we got to take a peek at Carter. Since the visit had nothing to do with him, he was very cooperative and let us see lots of him. I'm sure when we go back in a few weeks to check his growth, he won't cooperate! The u/s tech took lots of 3D pics for us since he was showing off. This time we were able to see him opening and closing his mouth like a fish, which is amazing to see in 3D! He also kept waving his foot in front of his face, and I think this was just his way of showing Duke that he's a true Tarheel! :)
We also met with Dr. B (who's seen lots of CDH babies), who said that the herniation was the same (only the stomach) and that Carter did not seem to be a "worst-case" scenario of CDH. It still doesn't tell us anything about the likelihood of survival, but we left the visit feeling very good. She was reassuring and told us that we should remain very hopeful. We want to see
her on all of our visits!!
The loop is the cord floating around, that's his foot in front of his face in the 2nd picture (Carter says "look at my Tarheel", look at that cute nose in the 3rd, and you can kind of see his mouth open in the last one.
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