Answered prayers

Our minds are at ease after a trip to the specialist this afternoon. I am so thankful to be able to say that everything looks good. Everything looked normal. This doctor specializes in pre-natal ultrasound and he was very thorough. He checked everything on the baby, starting from her head and working down to her little toes. After checking multiple angles of her face in 3D, he said he didn't see any sort of swelling. She just has chubby cheeks :) He confirmed that she is indeed still a little girl (for which we were happy). He checked her hands and fingers, her heart, lungs, kidneys, spine, stomach, blood flow - just about everything you could think of. I appreciated his thoroughness. It really put my mind at ease to know she was alright.

Our other concern was the possibility of placenta previa. After checking everything he saw no signs of that. The cervix is right in the middle of what's considered normal and the placenta was not too far down, so as far as he was concerned it was all very normal with nothing to worry about. I asked him if he saw any reason I should need to be on bed rest and he said no. I was right where I should be for 33 weeks in pregnancy. That was a relief to hear. I was determined not to worry about anything until I knew if something was wrong. It was in God's hands and I just prayed for His protection over the baby. Although afterwards I had a real sense of relief knowing everything was fine.

One more thing before I go - we got a few pictures of the baby's face today, so I thought I'd share those. I'm still amazed at how much detail we can see of the baby still inside me. She obviously likes to have her hand up by her face. Seems like it's there every time we see her.