2-Vessel Cord Diagnosis
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*Possible Trigger Warning*
My husband and I were so excited about our twenty-week ultrasound. The baby is starting to look so much more like a little human. If we wanted to, we could also request to know the sex of the baby.
Since this was my first baby, I was able to talk my husband into not knowing the sex of the baby until they were born. He agreed, even though he wanted to know the gender so we could better prepare.
But during the anatomy scan, all was great or so we thought. I had an appointment booked with my OB for a day or so after the scan to go over the ultrasound, so I wasn't worried.
I go to my appointment with my OB, accompanied by my mother-in-law. We go through the routine, blood pressure, measurements, heartbeat the routine questions. Then we sit and talk about the ultrasound.
"Your baby has a 2-vessel cord. Which means that your baby's umbilical cord only has one artery and one vein."
I was confused and not exactly sure what it meant. Thankfully my doctor was super amazing and informed me that at that time there wasn't anything to be concerned about. The baby was growing properly and looked healthy. We just had to monitor the baby more frequently and do a couple non-stress tests.
I had more ultrasounds than my OB normally has her patients have. And more appointments with her to go over the results of scans. At 35 weeks we had a goal to keep monitoring super close to try to keep the baby in until at least 37 weeks.
I had ultrasounds about once a week at this point just to check the growth of our little bean. At 36 weeks we were leading up to Thanksgiving (Canadian) and my OB said that there was a good chance that we may have to deliver the baby by Thanksgiving. The 2-vessel cord had started to show its presence when our little bean was slowing down in growth. We did one more ultrasound that week and discussed that it was safe to wait a little bit longer. Over the weekend I would then reach my 37th week of pregnancy. I was booked for another ultrasound on Tuesday and an appointment with my OB for Wednesday late morning.
I walked into my OB appointment with my mom and mother-in-law and we went over the ultrasound from the previous day. It showed that the baby's body was where it was supposed to be, but that the baby's head was growing a little behind.
My amazing OB then consulted with fellow OB's with me and it was decided that I would go to the hospital only hours after the appointment to be induced with a Foley Catheter and sent home for the night until 9am the next morning or I was in active labor.
Thursday, October 12, 2017, Our son was born healthy via c-section.