Many of you have probably heard all ready, but Aaron and I got some devastating news today. Our baby will probably not survive outside the womb. They did an amneostasis this afternoon to test for chromasomal defects, which is what they think it is right now. I know I am spelling everything wrong so I hope what I write makes enough sense for everyone to understand what is going on. The specialist we went to see feels that it is triploidy or triamias 18. Those may not be the right names but they are two of the three chromasomal defects. The other is down's syndrome. He did not feel that it was down's. The other two defects are fatal so if we carry the baby to term it will not live but for a few days or hours if one of the defects above is the problem. We will know in 2days. If it is not one of those then we will have to go to a cardiologist and a genetic counselor. The baby had clubbed hands and feel and it's heart is not formed correctly and is not in the right place. Because there are three things wrong this is why he feels a chromasomal rather than genetic defect. The one good thing if it is a chromasomal defect is that there would be no reason why Aaron and I couldn't try to have another baby at some point because the chances of this type of defect reoccuring is very very low. I think he said less than 1%. I really don't know what to ask all of you to pray for or how to pray but Aaron and I are going to need a lot of strength from God and a lot of wisdom and encouragement over the next few weeks as we try to figure everything out. We will know more when we get the results back. If it is chromasomal then we will not go to the geneticist or cardiologist because there is no reason to do so. I just wanted to let everyone know to try to avoid awkward questions or situations that could come up if you didn't know what was going on. I almost want to ask that everyone pray that it is chromasomal so that Aaron and I can have hope of having more children but I don't know if that is right of me. Thank you for all of you being there for us.
It looks like the last update I posted on animals was about going to the sale barn and getting cows. As a reminder we got a calf/cow pair and a "weaned" calf: Chloe, Midnight, and Mooey. Chloe and midnight are some kind of black angus mix and midnight is part Holstein. Midnight and Mooey will eventually be our meat cows. We hope to AI Chloe sometime in the near future for another calf. Midnight, her calf pictured below (much littler in the pic than he is now) is a very good looking steer. He could go to the fair if he wanted. This is a picture of him getting out of his fence and coming in the yard. He still gets out from time to time. Having a mama calf keeps both the steers in line though. They are much better about not getting crazy, unlike some other steers we could name from the past, but won't. We ended up having to feed quite a bit of hay this winter as we had snow cover from November to end of March. We got our barn built about January and began collecting more ...
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