Viable

Celebration! The baby is now considered viable. I could go into all the ins and outs of why that is, but to make a long story short the medical definition means the baby has a 50/50 chance of survival if born today, it also means the NICU at the hospital here would try and save baby. Of course, we would like to make it much longer then today. Even four more weeks greatly increases the babies chances of survival and greatly decreases long term health problems.

I had a doctor's appointment today. The baby's hear beat is nice and strong. The doctor is also going to further our viability celebration by prescribing three shots in the next three days. yeah. One today to prevent preterm labor and a series of two steroid shots that need to be 24 hours apart to give the baby a better chance of survival if I were to go into labor anytime in the next 6 weeks (if I make it 6 more weeks then I get another series of shots to celebrate that mark).

One more celebration- we are having a little girl. We will probably name her Lilly.