Hi everyone,
It may sound very strange, but we are very happy to still be in the hospital. Its been a roller-coaster ride so far, but we've made it farther than expected and things at least for now have stabilized. In a nutshell, the babies bag started dropping because of an incompetent cervix. If it breaks then labor starts, which there is essentially no chance right now that the baby would survive. We will be at 21 weeks on Wed. To even have a chance we need to get to 24. Obviously, everybody wants the baby to get a lot farther than that.
On Saturday, they were able to get the bag back where its was supposed to be, and the cervix stitched shut. Statistically, there's no proof that it will help, but the reality on Saturday was that if we didn't do anything the bag probably would have broke and we would have lost the baby. It had emerged way too much and was not slowing down. We feel extremely blessed that the surgery was successful. The doctor had given it less than a 1% chance of success because of how emerged the bag was and told us after that he got very lucky. I'm not one who normally believes in miracles and all that, but I don't know what else to call it.
The baby is extremely healthy and very active, making all the nurses chase it to measure heartbeat, etc.. She's a fighter like her mom..
Anyway that's where we are. The next 2 weeks are a big hurdle. There's a chance of infection from the surgery which may take 10-14 days before showing up. There's all sorts of other worries, and while things have stabilized for now the likelihood for a positive outcome is still very low. Michelle is on restricted bed-rest, and it seems she has about every antibiotic in the world in her veins right now. She won't leave the hospital for at least 2 weeks. The doctors are not happy that we live where we live (because of the long drive), so it may be a lot longer than 2 weeks before they let Michelle go home (for more bed-rest). But we'll deal with that then. Its a long, long, long road ahead, but we are very happy to still be on the road.
I haven't really figure out how to make this all work yet. I just wanted us to get through the weekend. Thankfully we have lots of a family, and they have been helping us with the kids and allowing me to stay with Michelle. Sorry to be sappy, but Michelle and myself feel very fortunate that I work with such a great group of people and that we have some flexibility. I'm very thankful to have Wi-fi in the hospital (at least right now - we will be moving rooms tomorrow if things stay the same). The more things stabilize, the more opportunity I'll have to get some work done. Anyway, I'm hoping to arrange it so that I can come in the office an hour or so tomorrow in the afternoon. I'm sure it will do Michelle some good to get me away from pestering her for awhile.
It may sound very strange, but we are very happy to still be in the hospital. Its been a roller-coaster ride so far, but we've made it farther than expected and things at least for now have stabilized. In a nutshell, the babies bag started dropping because of an incompetent cervix. If it breaks then labor starts, which there is essentially no chance right now that the baby would survive. We will be at 21 weeks on Wed. To even have a chance we need to get to 24. Obviously, everybody wants the baby to get a lot farther than that.
On Saturday, they were able to get the bag back where its was supposed to be, and the cervix stitched shut. Statistically, there's no proof that it will help, but the reality on Saturday was that if we didn't do anything the bag probably would have broke and we would have lost the baby. It had emerged way too much and was not slowing down. We feel extremely blessed that the surgery was successful. The doctor had given it less than a 1% chance of success because of how emerged the bag was and told us after that he got very lucky. I'm not one who normally believes in miracles and all that, but I don't know what else to call it.
The baby is extremely healthy and very active, making all the nurses chase it to measure heartbeat, etc.. She's a fighter like her mom..
Anyway that's where we are. The next 2 weeks are a big hurdle. There's a chance of infection from the surgery which may take 10-14 days before showing up. There's all sorts of other worries, and while things have stabilized for now the likelihood for a positive outcome is still very low. Michelle is on restricted bed-rest, and it seems she has about every antibiotic in the world in her veins right now. She won't leave the hospital for at least 2 weeks. The doctors are not happy that we live where we live (because of the long drive), so it may be a lot longer than 2 weeks before they let Michelle go home (for more bed-rest). But we'll deal with that then. Its a long, long, long road ahead, but we are very happy to still be on the road.
I haven't really figure out how to make this all work yet. I just wanted us to get through the weekend. Thankfully we have lots of a family, and they have been helping us with the kids and allowing me to stay with Michelle. Sorry to be sappy, but Michelle and myself feel very fortunate that I work with such a great group of people and that we have some flexibility. I'm very thankful to have Wi-fi in the hospital (at least right now - we will be moving rooms tomorrow if things stay the same). The more things stabilize, the more opportunity I'll have to get some work done. Anyway, I'm hoping to arrange it so that I can come in the office an hour or so tomorrow in the afternoon. I'm sure it will do Michelle some good to get me away from pestering her for awhile.
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