Good News

We're at 23 and 6/7 weeks today. Tomorrow, we hit 24 weeks, which is a milestone because it is the point at which baby is considered viable outside the womb. If she were born now, she would have a pretty good chance for survival...though we certainly are planning for her to stay put for a few more months.

Good news today...
We had another level 2 ultrasound today and the news was good all around. First of all, baby looks great. She is growing well and the cyst in her pelvis was much smaller (actually, it was hard to find it at all). It is very likely just an ovarian cyst that will go away on its own. The blood collection left over from the abruption has gotten smaller and seems to be slowly going away. No new bleeding and the placenta otherwise looks great. Baby is breech right now, but has another 8 weeks to flip around before she likely would stay that way. We will have another level 2 ultrasound in 2 months to make sure the cyst goes away or still looks small and reassuring and to make sure baby is still growing well. We have our next appointment with our doctor Angie next week.

We got a couple pictures today, though they're kind a blurry...

Profile shot while she was chewing on her hands. We saw her little jaw moving as she was chomping away on her fingers. It's harder to see on the still picture, though.

Face shot from the front.

In other good news...Austin made a poopy on the toilet today! It was actually such a substantial one that he clogged the toilet! It took quite a bit of encouraging as he danced around the bathroom fussing (doing the "poopy dance," aka "I need to poop, but I'm really trying not to"). But he did it! Yay! We're making progress.