We continue to sit and wait at University Hospital with no real updates. We feel very loved by the number of emails and phone calls received today. Thank you.
This is certainly an interesting experience. This pregnancy has been amazing. You always hear the horror stories about pregnancy and pregnant women - Amie has been amazing and doesnt fit any of the stereotypes. During this entire pregnancy she has continued to run, walk, workout, go to 5am step classes 3x per week, not to mention trips to Monterey/ SFO, DC, Vegas, San Antonio and nearly 2 weeks in Costa Rica.
Crazy that now, after all the good comes pre-term labor. I think we were both in absolute shock last night as we heard words like "Neo-natal ________" and "NICU" and "HIGH RISK ___". Amie and i havent really talked about it, but personally my head was spinning! Fortunately we have been much re-assured by the medical staff about the progress and the health of the baby that if he happens to be born, he would be ok. Of course, if he were born today or this week he would have to spend some period of time in the NICU until he was "big enough" tough to define "big enough" because at this point that could mean hospitalization until due date. However, knowing his parents and their nature he would probably push a little harder and be somewhat of an over-acheiver and beat our expectations.
So, I decided that this would be the easiest way to share updates with everyone over the course of the next period of time. It sounds like we will be spending the weekend at the hospital. The way we look at it right now, every day he can stay in Amie is a day of growth and development that is much better than life outside.
Amie and i were set to travel through the next seven days, at which point we were going to pack a bag to take to hospital "just in case", create a call list, and ultimately decide on a name. Well, here we are at the hospital and lacking a name. I guess we should put some urgency around that now.
As we learn more and things develop i will keep you updated. Stay tuned.
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Unexpected hospital trip
May 21, 2009
Just wanted to give you all a quick update as mine and Amie’s weekend plans are quickly changing. Amie was set to go to Portland with a group of 12 friends for Chiao-ih's bachelorette party weekend, while I was set for a weekend of bachelor revelry in SLC with Mike and the boys. Needless to say those plans have quickly changed.
Yesterday afternoon amie started having regular contractions. Usually a normal thing as her body practices to give birth. The contractions became more regular after work. She tried to relax and hydrate which are generally the first step of stopping early or pre-term contractions. By midnight there was no change, in fact the contractions became approx 5 min apart and were lasting for nearly a minute for a two-hour interval.
At the hospital they found a slight infection (very common in pregnancy) which they believe was the cause of the contractions to start. They are currently giving her antibiotics for the infection and drugs to hopefully stop the contractions. So far no change. In the past 12 hours the contractions have remained the same, not slowed or gotten more intense and are really not reacting to the drugs. Simultaneously she has not progressed or gotten any closer to delivering which is good. She is sleeping now for the first time since yesterday morning.
We are at the university of utah hospital and they are taking great care of mom and baby. They did two ultrasounds and baby seems healthy and unaffected by the contractions. They estimate he is around 5lbs today. If it were 10 days from now they would say that he was “slightly early” but otherwise fine. If he came today they would call him “premature” and he would spend about two weeks in the NICU.
At this point we are hoping that the contractions stop, we go home tomorrow some time and amie can just rest and relax for a few weeks at which point there is no problem with delivering slightly early.
More to come as I know it.
Just wanted to give you all a quick update as mine and Amie’s weekend plans are quickly changing. Amie was set to go to Portland with a group of 12 friends for Chiao-ih's bachelorette party weekend, while I was set for a weekend of bachelor revelry in SLC with Mike and the boys. Needless to say those plans have quickly changed.
Yesterday afternoon amie started having regular contractions. Usually a normal thing as her body practices to give birth. The contractions became more regular after work. She tried to relax and hydrate which are generally the first step of stopping early or pre-term contractions. By midnight there was no change, in fact the contractions became approx 5 min apart and were lasting for nearly a minute for a two-hour interval.
At the hospital they found a slight infection (very common in pregnancy) which they believe was the cause of the contractions to start. They are currently giving her antibiotics for the infection and drugs to hopefully stop the contractions. So far no change. In the past 12 hours the contractions have remained the same, not slowed or gotten more intense and are really not reacting to the drugs. Simultaneously she has not progressed or gotten any closer to delivering which is good. She is sleeping now for the first time since yesterday morning.
We are at the university of utah hospital and they are taking great care of mom and baby. They did two ultrasounds and baby seems healthy and unaffected by the contractions. They estimate he is around 5lbs today. If it were 10 days from now they would say that he was “slightly early” but otherwise fine. If he came today they would call him “premature” and he would spend about two weeks in the NICU.
At this point we are hoping that the contractions stop, we go home tomorrow some time and amie can just rest and relax for a few weeks at which point there is no problem with delivering slightly early.
More to come as I know it.
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