Baby Austin and more

Just thought I would share a couple pictures of my cute little, and she is little, niece. It's kind of hard to get a good picture because of all the tubes and stuff, but you can still see her and how small she is!!!!! Austin is doing well and the doctors are pleased with her levels and such. She hasn't grown too much weight wise, but she is a fighter and she's doing well!!!!!

Keri is not doing well however. There is pretty much constant pain and while the doctors are still treating the cancer with hopes that it will help with the pain, there is no medical hope for a cure. We have not given up hope as the Lord can and does work miracles, but life is kind of a waiting game right now. The cancer brings with it a high risk of blood clots, which will likely cause death before the cancer will, so it's tough to know what to pray and what to do right now.

I am doing well with the pregnancy however. The second ultrasound is in a three weeks and I am feeling baby move every day and we are just waiting for when Dan can feel it on the outside!!!!!!!!!!!! My sister is also pregnant now, and so at Thanksgiving supper we took a picture of the two of us. We are due a week apart and are pretty much exactly the same size!!!!!!

And that's it for now!!!!!!

My Baby

A week and a half ago I went for my ultrasound for our baby. Dan took the day off so that he could come with me, and it was a great experience!!!! We were able to see baby quite clearly and because Dan wanted to, we found out what we were having, but we are keeping it a secret from everybody else. It was fun though!!! I also had a doctors appointment last week and discovered that I need to go back for a second ultrasound because they couldn't get a good picture of the spine in the first one. Everything else was normal and the doctor was not at all concerned, so I am not worried, but it is sometimes hard to think positive, so please pray that I will have a continued positive mind set.

We have also had a big week in regards to family situations!!! Due to complications with the placenta, Dan's sister Keri had a somewhat emergency c-section to deliever her baby at 27 weeks, 13 weeks premature. Keri has been struggling with health issues for the past year and a half and has been in the hospital pretty much her entire pregnancy fighting cancer. Both her and the baby were doing well, but last week the baby went into distress and had to be taken out so that both Keri and baby would survive. The baby (a girl named Austin) is a surprising 1 1/2 lbs and 11 3/4 inches long and is doing well!!!! Praise God for that!!!!!!! She is breathing on her own, in the incubater but without forced air. Keri is also doing better now as well. Please keep praying for Keri and Austin that God would be faithful and present to them now and that Austin would keep developing properly and that healing would be quick for Keri.

Dan has a work course in Edmonton tomorrow, so he has gone down and will see Austin and Keri tonight, which is good for him. He has been quite worried, and reasonably so, with the whole situation.

And that's kind of it right now!!!!!