Follow-up Ultrasound

On June 8th, 2012 - We have our follow-up ultrasound due to the doctor finding an irregular heartbeat at our 20 week ultrasound.  When we went for our 20 week ultrasound the doctor said that alot of times the irregular heartbeat resolves itself by the next followup one.  We were all hoping that would be the case but Baby Jenks decided to throw us through another loop.  This time when the doctor listened to his heart rate it was a different rhythm instead of the bigeminy heart rhythm he was displaying last time.  He would occasionally go back into the bigeminy rhythm but, he was mostly in this other rhythm.  His heart rate has dipped down to 88 bpm which is very slow, but the doctor said that everything structurally that he can see looks like it is developing correctly.  The doctor is thinking it may be premature atrial contractions (PACs) or a slim chance it may be a heart block.  I have been placed on high risk now and have to see a doctor every week to see how the heart rate is doing.  The doctor has scheduled us to see a prenatal cardiologist on June 19th so he can evaluate what is going on with our little guy.  The 19th can't come soon enough!!!  We were told by the doctor not to worry about anything, but it is hard not to worry when something is obviously going on.  What I worry most about is that the heart rate will continue to go down.  Hopefully that is not the case!!  We are hoping that the heart rate will go back up and correct itself.  I guess there is still hope that this could just go away.  Which we are hoping Baby Jenks does soon rather than later. Here are some pictures from the follow-up ultrasound.  We really loved the nurse that did the ultrasound this time!! She gave us some great pictures!!