Alison is one month old today!! We had our first appointment with Dr. Barr. He did a quick evaluation of her head and her leg movement. He was encouraged by what he saw, so much so that he only wants to see us back in 3 months for another evaluation. While we are anticipating that Alison will eventually need a shunt, Dr. Barr said that they have not yet had to shunt any of the their fetal surgery patients. We'll see. We also met with the urologist and are scheduled to got back in December to do a base line evaluation of Alison's badder and kidneys.

Today was Alison's follow-up appointment with Dr. Schell. Nothing has changed. This was excellent news. Dr. Schell even commented that, in his opinion, having the fetal surgery was for the best in our case. We are going to Ann Arbor on September 16th to see Dr. Barr, who runds the Spina Bifida clinic at the Univerity of Michigan. Until then keep praying.