Three. Had to wait.

As amazing as ultrasounds are now, they also can’t see everything, we have tiny parts of us that ultrasounds can’t pick up and this means that although doctors can see potential issues during pregnancy, they can’t always fully diagnose until the baby is born. So come our 32-week scan, we were advised that our baby’s other kidney appeared to be cystic which meant that chance of survival was low. 

Prof Alfirevic arranged a further scan with Dr. Simon Kenny – Alder Hey’s clinical lead for Paediatric surgery and urology. (To be fair, I’m too scared to say everything he does in case I get it wrong, he’s basically a genius but at this point, we knew him as the kidney specialist, but his skills and knowledge are out of this world).

It’s here where a plan for our baby was made, the team believed that there was a chance our baby could survive, but it wouldn’t be until after birth that a diagnosis could be made and steps for recovery could be made. It was decided that I would have a C-Section at 34 weeks, nobody wanted to put any additional stress on baby, but we wanted to wait long enough for baby’s lungs to develop a bit more. A date was put in for Monday 13th November, and until then, I just had to wait.

Those 2 weeks were a complete blur. I don’t think I could tell you what happened if I tried.