Just sitting with the little guy getting in our last cuddle time before his big day. He’s so amazingly peaceful this morning especially for not having been fed his least two meals. I’ll be posting here as we hear news throughout the day. Please send all your positive thoughts and prayers Evan’s way today.

  Sarah and I ‘moved’ to Ann Arbor yesterday to await the arrival of little Evan. We were planning on moving sooner but with zero pre-labor symptoms we decided to wait until yesterday. She has not had anything other than Braxton Hicks contractions so far but if you ask me, he looks like he’s getting […]

Mom and Evan are in the home stretch now, we’ve got just over a week to go! We have worked out most of the logistics for the birth, at least the ones that we can control, the rest is up to Evan and when he decides that he wants to make his debut. The appointment […]

  We had our second appointment at the University of Michigan on June 10th. This appointment put little Evan at 34 weeks and 5 days. We started the day off with a fetal echocardiogram with Jane. Evan was awake and ready to play. He was rolling over and just moving a lot in general making […]

Last Friday we had our second biophysical ultrasound and non-stress test. As it turns out Friday afternoon is not a good day for appointments. Wow, was it busy. The nurse came by after about 15 minutes, looked at Evan’s non-stress results, said it looked great but she wanted to get 8 more minutes of data. […]

Continuing since our 30th-week appointment, we are going to have weekly ultrasounds.  Usually this wouldn’t happen until week 36, but seeing as we are a special case we get to go more often.  Starting at this appointment, we also have weekly fetal non-stress tests.  I had no idea what this was but I get to sit […]

  Yesterday afternoon we had another doctor’s appointment, just a routine one here in Kalamazoo. As always we had an ultrasound and Evan is growing just like he should be. In fact, in the last week and a half he’s gained 15 ounces! I’ve searched and searched online and I cannot find any decent charts […]

Last Thursday we had our all-day appointment at U of M.  We weren’t sure what to expect but hoped to come away with a better understanding of the process we are going through and the facility that will become our second home.  It didn’t take too long to get there – about 1.5 hours – […]

I am so very thankful that our medical professionals caught this when they did. I feel a sense of calm that we have the opportunity to be prepared for what is going to come. I have been doing a lot of reading and I have seen many stories where the family had no idea, even […]

We went to the cardiologist today and were officially diagnosed (previous was best guess by radiologist, OB, etc) Evan does indeed have a congenital heart defect but it’s not hypoplastic left heart syndrome. He has a much more rare (1 in 25,000) defect called Tricuspid Atresia with Left Transposition. It’s two parts, 1) There is […]