Lots of babies

I'm following the courses of four other pregnancies besides mine at the moment: (1) Erin's, (2) Aunt Toni's, (3) Kristin Banz's, and (4) Susan Nelson's. Susan is the wife of Matt, who is a law school buddy of my brother-in-law, Andrew. I met them when I got to stay with Erin and Andrew last fall after a business trip. Matt and Susan have an absurdly adorable daughter named Fiona (she's just shy of 2 years old, I think) and Susan just gave birth to a second daughter, Whitney. Whitney was diagnosed in utero with a serious form of spina bifida, and the Nelsons have been writing a terrific blog about the entire experience. (http://www.whitneynelson.blogspot.com/) It looks like Whitney's post-birth surgery to close her spinal lesion went really well, and I'm going to continue to follow her progress. After meeting Matt, Susan and Fiona, I think that if there ever was a family special enough to have a baby with such special needs, it's definitely the Nelsons!

As for the other pregnancies, I'm DYING to hear how Kristin is doing. (For those on Corey's side of the family, Kristin is my Aunt Kim's neice who lives near San Diego.) When she wrote me a few days ago, she was fast approaching her due date and was already starting to dilate a couple of centimeters. She and Justin chose not to find out the baby's gender, and the suspense is killing me. Considering how close Kristin, Erin and I all were to the entire process of bringing our "susin" (sister/cousin), Abbey, into this world, it seems fitting that all three of us are going to have babies within 5 months of each other. Now that Kristin & Justin are living back on American soil, I'm hoping we can all meet up to show off the new little ones later this year or next -- maybe up in San Luis Obispo at Uncle Jerry & Aunt Kim's??

I'm still cracking up that my sister and I are both pregnant at the same time as our Aunt Toni. Yes, she is closer in age to use than our father (her oldest brother), but isn't it hilarious that she will become a great aunt while she's still pregnant? I can't wait to see if big sister Emma will end up with a little brother or sister. I hear Uncle Eric is convinced the baby is a girl, so we'll have to see if his intuition was as accurate as Corey's was.

Finally, I just heard from Erin that the results of her quad screen were totally normal, which means her baby probably does not have neural tube defects (like Whitney's spina bifida). Too bad there's not a test to check to see if either of our babies are going to suffer from the Scott eyebrows. Do you think that could be corrected with fetal surgery before birth? JUST KIDDING!!! I'm so happy Erin finally seems to have gotten past all of her morning (actually, morning/noon/night) sickness and is feeling a whole lot better. I can't wait to see her in a week and a half when she comes down for a baby shower. Watch the blog for a photo of us comparing bellies!