Tuesday, September 28, 2004
Are We There Yet?
Almost!
This morning we went for what we expected would be the last weekly ultrasound. Lori the ultrasound technician found the fluid extremely low, though all else is superb or as expected. She notified upstairs about the fluid, and they paged the midwife on call and had us go up for a round of the NST monitoring. Oh, weight estimate today was nine pounds. Yikes.
The NST was fine, but Nancy the NST nurse sent us over to the hospital for more monitoring and checking there, where the midwife on call would meet us. What about lunch? Nope, if they induce you, you don’t want to be sick. Snack from the vending machine? Okay.
We went up to labor & delivery in the hospital, did the monitoring with a tech and midwife, checked the cervix, and ended up being admitted. Deb is in the delivery room hooked up to monitors and coolng her heels while they gradually ripen the cervix the rest of the way. It was well underway, but needs more before induction.
Once things were settled, I was sent home - just now - to eat, do this, check e-mail and make sure nothing is falling apart at the office, and grab the laptop and suitcase after making sure the last items are in it. There’s not a big hurry for me to go back. They will call me if I need to rush back.
There’s a chance Sadie could arrive today. There’s a slimmer chance it could be Thursday. Most likely it’ll be tomorrow. We shall see. It could be a nice, historic birthday, with the X-Prize attempt planned then.
I’ll probably post the announcement as soon as we’ve called some of the relatives with the news first. Stay tuned… (I may post otherwise between now and then, but most likely it will be light.)
Wednesday, August 25, 2004
Are We There Yet?
I put a new post with ultrasound pictures on Sadie’s blog. Click the picture to go to that post.
