I thought I'd start out by discussing our first boy, Carter.
We found out we were pregnant in Feb of 2006 and that my due date was in October. When I was about 20 weeks along we got an ultrasound to find out if we were going to have a boy or girl. We were excited to find out it was a boy, but they also saw dilated bowel. This could be caused by many different things including, a malrotation or cystic fibrosis. The doctors advised us to wait for another month and see if they fixed themselves. So we went ahead and waited.
The next month Carter's ultrasound looked the same, dilated bowel, but there were no answers to what it was or what needed to be done to fix it. So we waited yet another month, until finally our doctors referred us to a specialist at the LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City.
By the time we were able to see him I was 33 weeks along. The specialist was very disappointed that our doctors waited so long to refer us to him, because I was so far along it was very hard to pinpoint what was wrong with Carter and we would have to schedule an exploratory surgery for him as soon as he was born. Our appointment was on Tuesday afternoon and we left to go back home for the first day of school on Wednesday, planning to make an appointment for me to be induced at the University of Utah Hospital in Salt Lake City.
But, Carter didn't want to wait for an appointment. I started having contractions on our way back home and by Thursday night I was tired of them and we went to the ER in Rexburg, around 11 pm.
