at least I have red toe nails

Sunday updates

This is my veiw. I'm glad that I at least have pretty red toe nails to look at this week. :-). And since we were here last year, the labor and delivery floor is much cleaner and nicer. Ahhhh.

So I think I'll do one post per day, and just go back and add to it later in the day if we have any different news or thoughts to add.

MORNING:
Uneventful, leak free, pain free night. Charlie slept, I didn't so much. My feet are higher than my head (inversion); keeps presure off the cervix. Little Mr.'s heart rate was 149 this morning and I feel him moving. Only slight very light contracting.

I've learned I'm not a fan of bed rest in all forms. It's very humbling. We laugh a lot. I've been nauseaous and have thrown up once due to yucky hospital food. Some awesome friends are bringing us meals.

Waiting to see OB for the plan for the next few days. Please pray that we will and the dr will have wisdom to know if the bag of waters is ruptured or leaking. We are still thinking and praying about the only realy definitive test that will tell conclusively, Amniocentesis. It's acurate but has some larger risks. We need to know the result, because it greatly changes the treatment plan and largely impacts the baby making it to a viable age.

We both are feeling emotionally numb and somewhat hopeful today. The initial shock is over and we are a little more at peace. Throughout the night I truely felt lifted up by your prayers on our behalf. Thank you. All our love.

NIGHT:
We met with our perinatal dr early this evening to talk more about the Amniocentesis dye test and possible cerclage treatment. The amnio dye test will conclusively tell us wether I have any can of leak or rupture in the bag of waters. (it has some risk of causing a rupture, but is done often for many other reasons, usually without issue). And if that proves that I don't have fluid leaking then that would allow us to move forward with cerclage treatment.

Cercalge would keep what's left of my now drastically shortened cervix (1.7-2.2 cm thick right now; normally 3.5-4cm thick) sealed. Hopefully for several more weeks. They can not do this if I'm having contractions, have an infection, or have and fluid leaking, or have begun labor.

I'm on about hour 32 of a 48-72 hour (depending) antibiotic treatment to ward off infections. I'm laying inverted to keep presure from the bag of waters off my cervix.

We will have an ultrasound from the perinatal dr Monday afternoon to check on Little Mister and how much fluid he has in there to "swim in" ( as my nephew prays) and how much I'm funneling. We should be able to make further decisions from that appointment.

We are somewhat hopeful.
I'm having some small contractions still. And back and head pain from laying (the wrong way up) for so long. But hopefully will be worth it. Going to try to sleep well and long tonight. We can feel our god using you and your fervent prayers to carry us through- no matter the outcome. Thank you.