A tall boy.

We had our monthly appointment last week. It was a little different this time. After some rountine bloodwork, by OB Doc discovered that I have a unique antibody in my blood. It's called Anti-K or Kell Antigen. He recommended that we go to see a perinatologist to be looked at further. This antibody K in my blood usually occurs if someone has had a blood transfusion, which I never have. So once again, I'm a freak of nature. I was told that less than 10% of the population has this. And if I ever do need blood it has to be A+ with the Anti-K.

Because I'm not a medical / technical person I will simply describe this anti-k. Basically your body has an army of antibodies, which when you get a virus these antibodies come out of sleep and fight the virus. The antibody K that I have could recognize the baby as a foreign body and attack it, because more than likely the baby does not have this.

So we went and saw the perinatologist at Methodist Hospital bright and early at 6:30 a.m! His name is Dr. Bonebreake. I really think he should be an orthopedic surgeon with that name. He was very cool. He was not overly concerned with my anti-K blood since it's our first pregnancy and we haven't experienced any miscarriages previously. He wants to monitor me every 4 weeks and will do a doppler of baby 'H's brain to look at a specific blood vessel. He will also monitor my thyroid since I have hypothyroidism as well, which can also affect the pregnancy.

After our appt. with Dr. Bonebreake we had a 9:00 with my regular OB doc. Nothing too exciting there. Had to do the glucose test for gestational diabetes. Didn't have an ultrasound since I had one with Dr. Bonebreake. The only thing we found out here was that my iron levels are a little low, so now I'm on an iron supplement, yippie.

The good new is that baby 'H' is growing normally. I've gained a little more weight, we won't talk about how much. Baby 'H' is now 1lb 5oz. Or as Chris said a "tall boy". And no, that doesn't give any clue to the sex of Baby 'H' as that is still a mystery to us and will be until Sept. 10th!