Toward the end of my pregnancy, my doctor in Lubbock cleared me to continue to only have my monitoring done in Amarillo, rather than making the trip to see him every few weeks. Our baby’s heart was doing well and he cleared me for delivery in Amarillo, rather than Lubbock or Dallas. Our baby would not need heart surgery for several months, a huge answer to prayer! The stipulation to this arrangement was that I would need go to my OB twice a week for fetal monitoring and then a third time for a sonogram, every week until Ben’s arrival to make sure he wasn’t under too much stress. I quickly agreed and got the appointments set up at the office in Amarillo. Several weeks of testing went by with only a few tests showing small indicators of an issue, nothing to be concerned with though.
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