That said, sometimes you will have your ultrasound and be told that your baby is a boy when you had your heart set on a girl or vice versa. This is called gender disappointment. You are not alone here. Many moms feel some degree of sadness to outright depression.
PFO stands for Patent Foramen Ovale. A simple way to think of PFOâs is as a hole in the main interior walls of the heart. In the image below, you can see where the hole forms a connection between the left and right atrium, aka the upper chambers of the heart. It is a very common heart condition, affecting a quarter of the population.
Partial pressure of carbon dioxide (p CO 2) is a measure of the pressure exerted by that small portion (â 5 %) of total carbon dioxide in blood that is dissolved in the aqueous phase of plasma and blood cell cytoplasm. The measurement is made using a CO 2 specific pH electrode. In health, p CO 2 of arterial blood is maintained within the range of 35-45 mm Hg; p CO 2 of venous blood is a little higher, 41-51 mmHg. Most of the carbon dioxide (90%) is transported in blood as plasma bicarbonate. This parameter is calculated.