My Story Part 1

We found out that we were pregnant Halloween 2006. I had severe morning (all day) sickness and lost 40 lbs in 4 months. I had to go into the hospital basically every week to be rehydrated. Yeah talk about a horrible couple of months. February 5 was the day we were supposed to find out the sex of the baby. So we went in and they said that they couldn't tell but I could come back later that week and maybe the baby would be in a different position. So they went to make the little video and came back and told me that I needed to make an appointment with my OB. I called as I was walking out to make the appointment. When I made the appointment I asked is anything wrong? They told me no. The next day the secretary called me and asked me if I could come in that day. I told her no but that if it was an emergency I could. She said "NO, No emergency". The next day I went in and sitting on the table it was the most nervous I've ever been in my entire life!! When he walked in all he said was " I really don't think this pregnancy is going to turn out well, you've been leaking amniotic fluid and there's only about a tablespoon left." What? He made us an appointment with a Perinatologist for that afternoon. When we got there and we started the ultrasound he started saying that the baby's heartbeat was abnormal, that it was underdeveloped and that there was no bladder. How could all of this come about so fast and completely out of left field? At all the appointments till then the baby's heartbeat had been fine. Of course I wasn't about to take one persons advice. We made an appointment at Barnes Jewish Hospital in St. Louis for Valentine's Day.