Everything is ok but it isn't

7 Months Pregnant

In October of 2006, my husband Kyle and I found out we were expecting our first baby. At the time we lived in a one bedroom apartment, we were both in college, we had no health insurance, and Kyle was working as a children's pastor for $1000 a month. To say we were unprepared is an understatement! Luckily both of us are "take it as it comes" kind of people and we knew that God had a plan for us. We knew this baby was a gift from God.

My pregnancy was uneventful until we had our 20 week ultrasound. It was the day after Valentine's Day and we were so excited to find out we were having a boy! The ultrasound tech said to us, " do you want to know how I'm sure it's a boy?" In my head I was thinking well there either IS or ISN'T boy parts right?! He rewound the ultrasound DVD and hit play. As we were watching you could see the baby's hand go from above his head and reach down to grab his boy parts. We laughed and, I'm sure, said something like "that's our boy!" The ultrasound tech never seemed concerned and sent us out the door with a million pictures. We headed to dinner where we would announce to our families that their first grandbaby was a BOY! His name would be Greysen:)

A few weeks later at my doctors appointment the midwife gave me the results of the ultrasound. Everything looked good except the baby's stomach looked a bit enlarged. The Midwife assured me that it was possible he could have just swallowed amniotic fluid at the time of the ultrasound, making his stomach "full". It was probably nothing but I needed to have a specialist do an ultrasound to confirm that nothing major was wrong. At 28 weeks pregnant I walked into Dr. Jackson's office. He performed the ultrasound and confirmed that Greysen's stomach was not enlarged however his gallbladder was. I was concerned and asked a lot of questions but got no answers. The doctor didn't really know what would cause his gallbladder to become enlarged but he wasn't concerned and thought it would probably "resolve itself". He told me to come back at 35 weeks for a recheck and we would see how it looked then. So 7 weeks later we were back in the same office. Dr Jackson came in, spent 2 seconds looking at Greysen's gallbladder, then gave us the news that his gallbladder looked fine. He said there was no reason for concern and that Greysen would be a healthy baby boy...he would prove to be very wrong.