Another doctor visit proves we are blessed

Today Lauren had a 2 year check-up with her pediatric cardiologist and we got a great report. When Lauren was born she had a PDA due to her prematurity. Basically what this means is a valve outside of her heart which allows for blood flow from the lungs to the heart never closed when she was born. Everyone is born with thier PDA open since that is how the body works invetro but a healthy full term baby's PDA closes within the first 24 hours of life. Lauren's tiny body didn't have signals to close this valve so blood continued to flow from the heat to the lungs. After doses of medacine the PDA got smaller but did not close completely. Some premies have a hard time breathing because of this and are ventalated and/or need surgury in the NICU to close the PDA. Thankfully it never seemed to effect Lauren. A few months after she arrived home we brought her back to the doctor and it was confirmed that her PDA was still open and most likely wouldn't close..at one year they wanted to see her again and preform surgery if it was still open. At a year, the doctor could hardly hear a murmmer and since she was doing so well he said to come back at two years. I guess the main reason to make sure it is closed is there is a possiblily of getting an infection in the blood stream which could be fatal if left open. So it has now been two years and we were not looking forward to this doctor visit. They have to do an ultrasound of the heart and Lauren has to sit super still. Do you know Lauren??? My pockets were full of suckers and other things that I thought would keep her still but surprisingly she did awesome. The doctor couldn't believe how well she sat for him during the 20 min ultrasound. Steve and I were shocked as well. The best part is the PDA closed!! No surgury!! We just can't believe how God has blessed us. He is good!