Since my last post, I have had an ultrasound and appointment with the perinatologist every 4 weeks. It’s to keep tabs on baby’s growth, ventricles, and head circumference.

Everything they have seen in these ultrasounds reinforces that the diagnosis of aqueductal stenosis is correct. His ventricles continue to increase in size.

Yesterday (31 weeks, 3 days) we had another one. He is measuring at 3 lb, 5 oz which puts him in the 27th percentile for size/weight. His head, however, is quite a bit larger in proportion to the rest of his body, measuring at 35 or 36 weeks. He is also breech and not likely to turn on his own because of how big his head is. What does that mean? It looks like it’ll be a classical c-section for me at about 38 weeks (which is anxiety provoking on many levels – that’s really soon!).

Next week we meet with the pediatric neurosurgeon who will walk us through the surgery and hopefully be able to answer a bunch of questions we have about what life will look like at least in his first few weeks.