Saturday afternoon at the hospital

We have had a fairly uneventful day here at Brookwood. At this point in the game we are certainly thankful for days that are uneventful. Angela has been taken off of the magnesium sulfate and her dose of Brethine has been increased. She is still contracting but they are very minor and the nurses don’t seem too worried. We did receive a couple of phone calls from the baby shower in Ohio that we were not able to attend. Hey all of you up there. We can’t wait to see you Grandma C and Aunt Heather. Sounds like they had lots of fun; we can’t wait to see the pictures and video of the shindig.

We are waiting to see if we will get clearance to head home this afternoon or if we get to go home tomorrow or later than that. She is now only dilated 1 cm and effaced 40% so that is really good news. But she is now confined to the house for the next 2 weeks…any thing that we can do to keep him inside of there for a few more weeks. Angela will of course be able to check email and talk on the phone but anybody that can visit and hang with her would make her day!

Angela has been hooked up to the 2 monitors for most of the afternoon to monitor her heartrate, the baby’s heartrate, and Angela’s contractions. She has had 9 contractions in a previous hour, but again they are pretty mild. We should know more news soon.

On a different front, Angela’s women’s small group has been busy planning a secret “drive by” shower today. So far it is still a secret to Angela so don't tell. There has been some concern that if this little guy gets out here we are not going to be equipped with the stuff to take care of him. It is so amazing that there are so many people that God is using to take care of us.

Breaking news… looks as if they are going to keep Angela for another night at least; kind of a bummer but the whole point of being here is to keep that little guy inside of her. So we will do what we can to make sure that happens.