The beginning

I started this blog in March 2011. Our journey began in January 2011. I post-dated the entries to keep them in time order. Sorry if things come across as confusing.

On January 14, 2011,  Joe and I went for our 21 week ultrasound with the hopes of finding out if Ally would be getting a baby brother or sister. We found out she would be getting a baby brother! I couldn't believe I was going to be the mother of a little boy. My motherly instinct took over; I knew that the tech was concerned about something. When I asked if she was concerned with his heart, she said couldn't get a clear picture of the heart, but she was concerned with something about his brain. Not again. It was so stressful when we learned that Ally had choroid plexus cysts. Oh, how I wish he only had those. We were set up to get an ultrasound through genetics and meet with a genetic counselor the next week. While I was scared and worried, by the following Thursday I had myself convinced it was nothing. I was wrong.