Announcing.................:-)

[avalen]

sometime around November 8, 2012 I will be a new grandma again. DD and her boyfriend are starting a family, haha, much to their surprise
But everyones excited and this is her first and probably only cause she's 36 now. She is a healthy girl herself but she's having the usual tests
done because of her age and they have her come in for a checkup every two weeks. The whole family is hoping for a girl but we will know
after April 24th. She's having a surgical test done that day, not the amineosyntesis, its called a cvs and fairly new and absolutely accurate.
The last sonogram showed the heartbeat so last night they told his mother and she's so excited. Couple more weeks and I can get out the
yarn

[cpatinjones]

Congratulations!

[VickieP]

Great news Ava! Lots of frilly things you can make if it's a girl.

[Birdie]

Congratulations Ava. Will be axiously awaiting your good news. Yep you can start looking for that yarn grandma! I know you are really excited about this. I pray all the testing comes out positively good.

[avalen]

the cvs procedure will test for all the scarry genetic and non genetic stuff. They actually take a little snip of the placenta, that alone is scarry to me.
But I will be at the hospital with her and bring her home and she'll stay in bed the rest of the day.

[Liz]

Exciting news for sure. I'll pray for good news on the testing. What will you make first with the yarn?

[avalen]

I only do the flat stuff Liz, so of course just an afghan, no hats or booties. But I'll make some baby quilts too
with the sewing machine.

[AlmostThere]

What a happy, happy time for you and your family, Ava!
Congrats to you all. Keep us updated, k?

[mtngal]

Great news Grandma Ava!!!

[sunshinecruiserTN]

Yippee, that's great news. Congrats.

[Rufflesgurl]

Congrats Ava. Because of your daughter's age, any chance of twins?? Fun, is on the way for you.

Linda

[chalet05]

Congrats, Ava! Love the anticipation with all of you having grandbabies arrive!

[snowball]

really exciting news!! excited for you how many grandchildren so you have?
our youngest is going off the pill on her husbands birthday she is really baby hungry
remind me to send you a pattern for a quilt easy to do not sure how to explain it
if I was going to be in Q this fall would come show you how to do it
enjoy this time
sheila

[Echo]

Congrats to you Ava and to DD and boyfriend!!! WOOHOO!! That is super happy news...

[BarbaraRose]

Great news! Congrats!

What is the difference between the CVS and the Amnio? Is the CVS better/safer? I had the amnio and that was awful (foot long needle!), altho the video they showed me first was even worse! I almost passed out from watching that, and then refused to have the amnio test done. Luckily, the specialist I went to, was very nice and was able to calmly talk me back into getting it done and distracted me the whole time by asking me questions, etc. Apparently, I wasn't the first one he had to do that with! I did get a video of the ultrasound to take home with me too! That was cool!

Hopefully, all will be well with mom and baby! I was 40 and she was very healthy!