Jul 07, 2003 19:22
February 13: Admitted to the Wilford Hall Medical Centre in San Antonio at 25 weeks into my pregnancy for strict bed rest.
March 21: Released to my home for more strict bed rest.
April 7: The worst day of my life...Shane left for Iraq. No idea when he will return.
April 25: Dr's appointment; lab work comes back horribly bad.
April 26: Return to Darnall Army Community Hospital on L&D floor for more tests. They do not have my records so they send me home and tell me no news is good news.
April 27: Dr. calls very distraught. Tells me I need to return to the hospital ASAP for I could stroke out and both me and the baby would die. At 6:35pm, Averie Melissa was born 4 weeks early via emergency C-section. She weighed 5 pounds even and was 17 7/8 inches long.
April 27: Averie placed in the NICU for complications.
April 30: I was released from the hospital.
May 5: Averie finally got to come home from the hospital.
June 27: Averie gets her 2 month innoculations and finally weighs in at 8 pounds 10 ounces and is 20 1/2 inches long...the size of the average full term new born.