Our Little Lucky Charm

Did you know that...

Rett has clover-shaped kidneys?

True story. When I was 37 weeks prego they did an ultrasound on me in which they saw that Rett has clover-shaped kidneys. When they told me this, I asked what that could mean, and they were SO helpful and said, "I have no clue." Awesome. They said the best way to figure everything out was to do an ultrasound around 2 months after he was born.

Don't worry, he's okay. Really. But read along if you want the long-story version.

Here's what a regular kidney looks like...

Rett's have little constrictions that make the I guess binding around the kidney come in to make a slight clover shape.

Anywho, that first day in the hospital after giving birth, they really wanted to see if he would pee. It took him all day that first day, but he did pee, and he's been peeing ever since. haha. :)

Since he was peeing regularly, they weren't terribly concerned and when Rett was about 2 months old we took him in for an ultrasound so they could really monitor the kidneys and see if they were functioning properly.

They were functioning fine, so they said that just to be sure that he's perfectly normal, they wanted to do another ultrasound at 4 months to make sure that the levels and whatnot are the same as at 2 months. They said scary things about kidney failure not being detectable especially in newborns and that it would be safest to do another ultrasound to be completely sure.

We did that ultrasound a week ago, and he was fine. Yay! They wouldn't let me take a pic of his kidneys, I don't know why.

He's our very own little good luck charm. And perfectly healthy! :)