Holy Crap

I am assuming this is spreading like wildfire, but being closest to the situation and for sure going to be rather bored soon...I thought I would send the latest news.

You may have heard that yesterday at 29 weeks (almost 7 1/2 months for you non-prego people) my water broke. Apparently, Pumkin is a little antsy about making a big debut.

Scared out of our minds...but not even sure what had happened, I called the clinic and they hesitantly told me that I was probably having bladder leakage. Less than an hour later it is confirmed as amniotic fluid. Yes, my water broke...which never even happened with Greyson.

Due to how early I was, Borgess couldn't keep me, they only want 32 week plus babies due to facilities. They were concerned about the contractions that I was having regularly, every 3 minutes. They gave me something to slow them/stop them as I was transported to Specturm Health in Grand Rapids. Bronson, which also has a NICU was full and not accepting anyone who had possibility of delivering quickly. At that point, that was me.

Took a quick ride to GR, got to labor and delivery, they did all sorts of monitoring and lab tests, gave me shots of steroids to mature baby's lungs, and administered antibiotics.

Here is what I know, which may be review, depending on who you talk to:

Baby is stable, I am stable, it is possible from what I have heard for me to hang out here for another 5 weeks being on bed rest and monitored and still have an early, but healthy baby
I am here. I will not be going home, until the baby is delivered, which we don't know when will happen, ideally, in 5 weeks, which is what they are looking at as far as a goal
I was having contractions, regularly, but they stopped. They made no progress in terms of getting ready for delivery...cervix is closed, not dilated.
Baby is healthy and reacting healthily as possible to the stress he/she has been thru. Heartbeat stayed very healthy all of my contractions petered out and I am having none now. Which is good.
I was diagnosed with gestational diabetes and initially will be having insulin injections due to high blood sugar levels due to the steriod that was given to the baby to help lungs develop
Every day, week, etc. that I am here, the better for baby. So I am here chilling out, but with all that time on my hands, will have way too much time to think. Had a hecl of a time sleeping last night.

I have wireless internet and will most likely use that as a main form of communication, becuase I can't use my cell and other wise have to pay for the calls on top of how much this is going to cost. I will have my laptop sometime today and I am in room 4409, 616-391-7323. I know it is not convenient to drop by, but I am sure some people will be making at least weekly treks, so if you have read a good book lately send it with them or any low carb or high protien snacks, I have a fridge in here...:)

On the homefront, things are going to be chaotic. Brian is going to for all intents and purposes be a single dad and he will be needing as much help and support that he can get. We love Greyson to death, but he has been quite challenging so recently. I am asking for any help that you can give him. I haven't even had the chance to start my after baby meals that I had planned on doing, I thought I had time!

So if you have time to give him some relief in the form of food, time, entertainment, whatever, he won't ask for it. So I am.

I will be updating as best I can. Here is the link to the blog that I have created for baby pumkin young if you want to follow. Emails and calls are more than welcome...boredom strikes! www.babyyoungblog.blogspot.com

Take Care/Love,

Christi and Pumkin