Sad Day

So yesterday we went in for an Ultrasound to check the growth, and to much of our surprise, little baby Taytum was no longer with us. She wasn't moving, there was no heart beat, and there was no more blood flow between her and the placenta.
Saturday we are going in to start the inducing process, and on Monday morning at 7am we will check into Swedish Medical Center to go through the labor and delivery process. Once she is born her body will be released to a funeral home, that will do the cremation for us. Please keep us in your thoughts and prayers so that everything on Monday may go as well as it can. We made it through 26 weeks of pregnancy, and now it's time to say good bye to her.

Quick little update

I just wanted to give a quick little update about the baby. I don't want to explain everything from the beginning but here's what's going on lately.

We started going to a new hospital (Sweedish Medical downtown Seattle) where the Doctors gave us different information then the ones that we have been seeing (at Valley Medical). This ultrasound shows that her brain is full and her heart is full, and her kidney's look fine. We then got an amnio done that day to find out if she has any syndromes on why she is so small. She was 4 weeks behind at that appt.

We saw an Echo Dr. a few days later that checked her heart. All her chambers are there, but she might have a possible hole between her bottom 2 chambers, and a possible blockage in her aeortic valve. We have another appt. with them sometime in June. If she is born with these problems she can get open heart surgery within a few days and that will fix the problems. The Dr. seemed very positive about her heart being just fine and being able to be fixed just fine.

AMNIO- came back Normal. They did 2 different tests on it. The first one was a fast track that was 98% accurate (which was normal) and the 2nd test came back on Tuesday and that was normal the rest of the 100%. So we are in the clear with her. There is nothing Wrong with the baby itself. They are thinking that it might have to do with my placenta. The last ultrasound that they did showed that it was abnormally bigger then what it should be. The blood flow looked fine going through the placenta to the baby.

So they haven't figured out anything with her size and why she is 4 weeks behind in growth, and there aren't really any other tests that they can do to figure it out. The plan for now is to just keep going check ups and ultrasounds every 3-4 weeks to watch her growth. Our next appt. is on next Thursday the 28th and we should know just a little bit more on her growth size. She isn't really kicking too much more lately, although I have felt her ONCE with my hand. Other then that she just mostly rolls and I can feel that pressure.

I appreciate everyones thoughts and prayers that have gone into her and her success so far. We are slightly hopeful now but aren't getting our hopes up too much. We still haven't bought much, just the absolute necessesities, the crib and the car seat.

Well that's all I got for now, things are looking slightly up.....

Here is the 24 week belly pic, it's still not too big:

And here we have her hand saying Hi to everyone!!!

Hawaii Vacation!

So we took a much needed Vacation to Maui. We went for a week and got away from it all. We flew out on Friday the 17th and came back Thursday night the 24th.Here we are at the airport waiting to catch our plane.Here's the plane!Here we are on the plane happy that we can finally see land!The land we see! Finally to Maui! When we got to Maui we got our rental car which was a Convertible Sebring, not the greatest car but it did get us everywhere we wanted to go, and we only used a half a tank! We got to the hotel which was the Ka'anapali Beach Club and here are some views from the room...View from the Balcony toward the waterView from the balcony to the Koy PondOf View of me on the balcony. The View from our door going down to another Koy pond and the restaurant area in the middle of the rooms.another view from the balcony on a bad day.

Once we got settled there we went swimming down at the pool for movie night. They were playing 27 dresses, we watched a little as we swam and then it was time for bed. We spent the next day putting around and then going on a dinner cruise that night. It was ok, the weather was good, the food was ok and the magician was ok. I wouldn't reccomend that trip but it was an adventure. WE did see a few whales while we were out there, so we got one on the camera, it was a picture right before it came up out of the water, the thing was massive.

WE spent the next few days lounging around a visiting Lahina (front sreet) where we shoped and ate at some restaurants, here are some of the Lahina photos:

WE rented some Snorkel equipment (it was sad because I have such a small face that the normal size didn't work for me and it leaked, so we had to go back and get a childs size mask for me)and did snorkeling outside of our hotel, (an I got a panic attack the first time in the water, so Devin had to go out for a while with out me) so here are some views from the beach and those fishies:

Ok so we did take a Snorkeling trip. We were supposed to go to Molakini, but the weather was severely bad the day we decided to go. So we ended up going out farther to an area that is a reserve. Much to our surprise when we got there, there were dolphins in the water that we got to jump in and swim with. I was SOOO happy about that since the "swimming with dolphins at the place" was off limits to pregnant women. But out in the open ocean they can't Stop me. MMMMWWWWAAAHHHHHH. Anyways, we didn't see much out there because it was murky because of the wind, but we did get a few photos of that trip! Totally worth it!

So here are just a few random ones from the week:
The last day. The last day we took it easy. We had dinner plans at the Lahina Grill (very upscale restaraunt) so, we played mini golf, and then went to dinner.. so here are the photos from the last day)-:So I know there are a lot of pictures, but so many people have been requesting them that I tried to get them all on one post. People it took me seriously 5 days to do this post, so I hope you really enjoy the pictures and the not so much commentary.