Ethel's Bookshelf

This is a list of the books that the baby has so far.

Preterm Labor (Part 2)

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Part 2

After settling in with the new staff and getting reconnected to all of the machines it was near 4am before either of us fell asleep and even then it only lasted for 2 1/2 hours. A nurse came in and drew blood and I figured it was a good time to contact a few people to let them know what was going on. We didn't want to worry anyone the previous night - especially since we didn't know what had been going on for the first 6 hours but at this point they were talking weeks of hospital bed rest if the baby hadn't forced her way out within the next few days. They didn't have much hope that I would be leaving the hospital pregnant.

Preterm Labor (Part 1)

30 weeks

We spent 17 days in the clear. Dr Jones gave us the all clear on January 9th and after she did so I told her I hoped it wouldn't change - especially after my glucose test the following week. Thank goodness my glucose came back fine. I was anemic and had to start iron supplements but other than that, nothing else was looming over our heads anymore.

That changed pretty drastically on January 26th.

The 4th & last follow up!

January 9th

Today was the last scan as a follow up to the thickened nuchal fold. (It has a more medical term but it is never understandable when the doctors say it.) I was under the impression that I would have noticed when the baby moved to the head down position but guess I was wrong. One of the first things that the tech pointed out was that she was head down.