I can imagine all of you sending strength to Lucy. Thank you.
Spent a weird and lonely morning here, with my phone totally out of juice and no computer and Larry unable to get to the hospital until 3pm. They have me on a lot of something called magnesium sulfate, which makes your whole body feel like you have the flu but stops all contractions. My water has definitely broken, so now is the balance between keeping the baby in, which is better for her in all ways, and keeping her and me heathy. The idea is that I will keep ridiculously hydrated, the baby will continue to make amniotic fluid, it will contine to gush out periodically no matter what position they keep me in and I will try very hard not to get an infection. Then Lucy will be born and she'll be just as healthy as Iggy was.
They are pumping me full of saline and steroids and antibiotics and magnesium sulphate (and Ambien!) and I get to be here until Lucy comes, which is hopefully another month. HotShot Doctor's colleague came this morning - a gorgeous black woman who looked like she was getting ready to go to an art opening - and I asked her what her one advice was about actually getting us to 34 weeks. She said her one pet peeve was towels or underwear on a broken membrane patient's crotch. The nurse had tucked the towel there. And the sweet nurses over here said "You can put undies on now and pajamas." (they have to keep hiking my gown up to adjust the baby heart's monitor) and I told them what Dr. Hare said. They look undecided, but I've decided to let my cooter hang out while I ruin a bunch of chucks pads. I didn't have that much dignity anyway.
When I came in last night, I felt that horrible unreal feeling when you don't want something to be happening and it's happening. I'm feeling better, I guess, but totally WTF? about the preterm labor. My cervix is closed and is still pretty long. It's a complete fluke that my bag of waters broke. The way this baby kicks......
“hello everybody. i am in the hospital. they gave me an ambien at like, 11 and it's 2:52 and so i'm just calling to say hellooo everybody! so everything is looking pretty good and they're just trying to keep the baby in as long as they can. so if you go to larry's journal he'll tell you the whole scoop. but um, no baby today, and none tomorrow, and hopefully none the next day, and just go on and on i guess. anyway, uh, ok! bye.”
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