Another Ultrasound & a Wrong Diagnosis

We headed back for another ultrasound to find out about the marginal placenta previa, prepared that if it hadn't moved I'd need to possibly be on bedrest the last month or two. The technician spent a lot of time with us, which I didn't notice at first, but when she asked us to stick around while she went to show them to the doctor, I knew something was wrong...something more than the placenta position. When the doctor came in and asked me to lay back down so he could see a live view, I got downright nervous. He told us that he suspected Jonah had a Duodenal Atresia, where the stomach is not attached to the intestines. They decided this based on the classic "double bubble" shape of his stomach, babies swallow amniotic fluid in utero but can't pass it so the stomach fills up. It requires surgery soon after birth and is very rare (1 in 6000 births) but has a 95% survival rate and usually requires a 2 week stay in the NICU. I was horrified, my beautiful baby boy would need to stay in the hospital rather than coming home with us, and there was a 5% chance that he could die! I couldn't believe it and I cried leaving the ultrasound room and sporatically for days afterwards. We made an appointment with my doctor the next day and she referred us up to Madison to the high-risk perinatologist, I would now need to deliver in Madison, not in my hometown hospital as planned.