We went to the high risk doctor on the following Monday. We found out our baby had a bladder outlet obstruction. This basically causes a baby’s bladder to enlarge in the womb because there is something obstructing the amniotic fluid from exiting the bladder. We were told all in all we had an 80% chance of survival and that we might need to travel to Houston to have a shunt surgery done at around 18 weeks pregnant. The shunt surgery would relieve the bladder and hopefully resolve the obstruction. This would prevent kidney damage (hopefully) and give the lungs room to develop.
I wasn’t thrilled about this news. BUT, we had a plan and I knew that otherwise, he was still a healthy baby and we had a plan moving forward.
The very next week….that changed.
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