Healthy Baby Arden!!!

Praise God! The sweat test showed that Arden does NOT have Cystic Fibrosis. A huge burden has been lifted from us--we couldn't be more relieved. Arden is such a trooper! Our day started at 3:30 yesterday morning since we had to be in Birmingham by 7:30am. After completing registration, they sent us to the lab where they attached small electrodes to her arms for five minutes(they did one arm at a time). These electrodes stimulated sweat that they collected over the next 30 minutes. In order to collect the sweat, they had to wrap her arms like this:

I wish I had a picture of her with both arms wrapped, but as you can see she was a little worn out from all the work :) At first, Arden was a little upset by the test but once she had her passy she was out for the rest of the time :) The test wasn't painful at all, but supposedly it makes your arm feel tingly and babies don't really care for that too much. After 30 minutes they took off the "casts" and we had to wait 2 1/2 hours for the results. Fortunately this time flew by and as soon as we arrived back at the office after lunch they were ready to meet with us. They didn't waste any time letting us know that she tested negative for Cystic Fibrosis, but they did spend a lot of time going over what we needed to know about her being a carrier. She will have NO symptoms of the disease, but it will be important for Arden to know this information when she is ready to start her own family. We also learned the process for Geoff and me to be tested to see which of us is the carrier. There is the possibility that we are both carriers, but we are praying this is not the case.

Thanks to all of you for the prayers that were lifted up on our behalf. We know God heard our prayers and He has answered them. Please continue to pray for us as we await our testing!

Here is a picture of Arden on our way home. Do you think she was exhausted or what?!