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Man, what a week this has been. Apologies for the lack of updates, but it’s been a little crazy around here.

The full story: last week, during a regular doctor’s visit, Heather’s doctor noticed that she had too much amniotic fluid, and recommended that she come in for a fetal monitoring. Through some random stroke of luck, she was able to come in last Saturday. I took her there, and during that monitoring, the nurse (who was extra-specially attentive, thank god) observed an unusual amount of activity going on down there, and what do you know…she was having contractions. She couldn’t feel them, of course, but she was having enough that there was a real danger of her going into pre-term labor.

So she was admitted to the hospital, where she stayed from Saturday to Wednesday. They put her on stuff to slow/stop the contractions, but also gave her stuff to develop the fetus’ lungs so that in the event that she went into labor and the baby had to be delivered early, she would be just fine. Fortunately that didn’t actually happen, but at least we’re prepared.
Since Wednesday she’s been home on strict bedrest, which hasn’t been much fun for her, but at least the baby’s safe and sound for the time being.

In all, this was a pretty stressful week. Heather’s 33 weeks and change now, but when she first went in, she was still at 32 weeks, and with this sort of thing every day counts. Right now the plan is to wait and see. We want to make it to at least 34 weeks. Were she to deliver then, the baby would still have to stay in the hospital for a couple of weeks before we could bring her home, but she’d be strong and healthy, with fully developed lungs, so that’s certainly good.

Of course, I’ve talked to someone who went through a similar situation only to have the baby delivered late, which just seems like a cosmic joke to me…I mean, can you imagine how stressful those post-term days must have been? Every sneeze would have to be examined as possible signs of labor.

Anyway, we’re doing okay here. I think Heather’s going slightly stir crazy from being trapped in the bedroom all day, but it’s definitely better than the hospital.

My usual nerdly updates will return soon…most weeks I usually have a few drafts of random crap I meant to post but never got around to, but this is really the first time I’ve had even the tiniest moment or energy to attempt to write anything. There’s definitely stuff to write, I just haven’t had the energy. Stay tuned.