We got to see a pretty good picture of little Leo's face. It was a head on shot, and he was looking right at us, he even slowly blinked at us a few times. It was AMAZING! I really needed that, because it got Scott and I so much more excited about meeting him, and just gave us something to be really happy about. He really looks a lot like Claire did, but his face isn’t as round. He looks a lot like Scott to me.
Regarding Luke, we THOUGHT he was going to be a good candidate for organ donation, but our Doctor called us back and explained that the only way they would consider him was if he had genetic testing via amniocentesis to rule out any other genetic issues such as trisomy 13, 18, etc. She was not comfortable with doing that because she does not want to put Leo at risk. However, what we could do is have them take blood right away after he is born, and try to have them rush the results, but there would be no guarantee the results would come back in time before he passes. So we will just have to wait and see what happens after they get here. OR, she did say that in the rare case we get to take both Luke and Leo home with us, we would have those results ready if we needed them.
I'm a little bit disappointed about the organ donation thing. I was really hoping that Luke would be able to help give others a good chance at life that he wouldn't have. It just would have made me feel a little better about things. But that’s okay, it is what it is, and we will just find some other way to give back.
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