public entry on pregnancy
Justine's water did not break. She has a high leak but the cervix is still plugged and long and closed. The leak made her think that her water had completely broken. While this is good news, it also means that a particular protocol will be followed. So she is now bedridden in the hospital on a cocktail of drugs with IV's and crazy stuff like that. The goal is a minimum of 33 weeks. We are at 29 weeks and 4 days. So in the best case scenario, Lucy stays in Justine for the next 3.5 weeks or more. But this means that Justine is IN THE HOSPITAL until she gives birth. So I just left her there. The sum of it is: large doses of antibiotics in IV to keep infection away, magnesium sulphate to stop any progression of contractions, steroids to jumpstart lung development, bedrest, 24/7 observation and a giant ambian to go to sleep.
So six years ago, they made us turn off our cell phones and certainly there were no computers in the hospital. But now we can use our cell phones and they have wireless internet. So I will bring Justine's laptop to her in the morning or whenever I get my tired ass up. And then she will be online in the hospital surely filling everyone in on the daily details of it all.
This is only the second night in Iggy's life that he has been away from her. I'm not too worried about that tonight. But he's going to be away from her for some time now. I will take him to the hospital to see her tomorrow. And we are going to be doing our best to get through this period of time. So I am going to be super stupid busy. I start a new job next week and that will have me away from Iggy more of the day. Add this to that and it's a fairly rough time for him. He's super resilient and I am super attentive most of the time. But this is a fairly tough task I have ahead of me.
And oh yeah. I don't know Justine's password to post this in her account and I know there are a lot of worried people on Justine's list. So if a few of you could point people that are on Justine's list to this entry like banshee,buscemi, stabby_lyd, squirrly. You might have a lot on your lists that I don't have on mine. That's all for now. I read a lot of your support on Justine's entry. Thanks so much.
So six years ago, they made us turn off our cell phones and certainly there were no computers in the hospital. But now we can use our cell phones and they have wireless internet. So I will bring Justine's laptop to her in the morning or whenever I get my tired ass up. And then she will be online in the hospital surely filling everyone in on the daily details of it all.
This is only the second night in Iggy's life that he has been away from her. I'm not too worried about that tonight. But he's going to be away from her for some time now. I will take him to the hospital to see her tomorrow. And we are going to be doing our best to get through this period of time. So I am going to be super stupid busy. I start a new job next week and that will have me away from Iggy more of the day. Add this to that and it's a fairly rough time for him. He's super resilient and I am super attentive most of the time. But this is a fairly tough task I have ahead of me.
And oh yeah. I don't know Justine's password to post this in her account and I know there are a lot of worried people on Justine's list. So if a few of you could point people that are on Justine's list to this entry like banshee,buscemi, stabby_lyd, squirrly. You might have a lot on your lists that I don't have on mine. That's all for now. I read a lot of your support on Justine's entry. Thanks so much.