Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Different every pregnancy

Had my fortnightly checkup with my gynae last monday (16th March) and was eager to see the growth of my baby...
when suddenly Delaila said "Hmmm...I see a slightly bigger kidney on ur baby!"
That really sent us pressing the panic button.....
"Can u explain further, doc?"
Apparently Precious#2 has a slightly larger kidney than the other and Delaila told us that it's quite normal at this stage of my pregnancy and the baby tends to pass urine in my womb now. So at times he might not urinate it all and save some in his kidney, hence, having extra water in his kidney. Well, even if doc told us not to worry first..naturally as a mother, esp, i got all stressed up and came up with 1001 questions......
my subsequent question was "what's the worst tht could happen if the water didnt reduce as we hope it would?"

doc: " well..the water usually reduces after a while but in the worst case scenario......ur baby might hav damaged kidneys! but i shall not make u panic...we shall see again 2 weeks from now......the consoling part here is that if ur baby were to have some kinda kidney disease, we can usually see both kidneys' size being enlarged...but in ur case, it's only one kidney which is larger than the other....so lets hope it's only extra urine tht he will pass it out soon"

so....i've been praying real hard that it's not gonna give us any worry and i just cant wait to see the doc next week for more confirmation!

see.....it's always a risk in every pregnancy and it's different cases in every pregnancy.....first it was Zach's case in his 4th month of life inside me....now Precious #2 just doesnt wanna lose out on his share of giving mommy and daddy the scare of their lives!......

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