I am home and recovering, though still in a lot of pain. It'll get better ( Read more... )

The dude abides. (In the NICU.)He's off the breathing tubes tonight, but still getting the UV treatment for jaundice, loads of antibiotics, glucose through his umbilicus...and all the monitoring cords, too. I think he has 13 connections to various machines now, which makes holding him precarious! but so satisfying ( Read more... )

Basic story: He stopped moving much on Saturday, I loaded sugar like a madwoman trying to get him to wake up...he didn't so I went to the hospital, where he had a nice steady heartbeat and we thought we'd go right home ( Read more... )

Yes. Baby. OUTSIDE baby. (!)
He's 4 weeks early and is in NICU, but so far doing lots better. It was pretty scary.
We're pretty much flabbergasted and twitterpated etc.
More later...

( Month 8! except in that accounting system there are 10 months... )

( I'm past 28 weeks now. This might normally call for jumping up and down, but I'm afraid that is absolutely impossible at this point... :) )

( 24 weeks... )

I filled out my NCAA brackets late, and had the brilliant idea to let the baby have one; I would run through the teams and when I felt a kick, that was the winner for the game. Except this would be a better idea later in pregnancy--I did just start feeling kicks a week ago, and they have been pretty fast and thick until this experiment. Exactly ( Read more... )

Where is all the time going ( Read more... )

Thinking that it would, theoretically, be an 'easy' job, we ambitiously decided to tile the guest bathroom last weekend. Like, finish it *over the weekend*. It turns out this was a very ambitious undertaking with many issues we did not suspect, including having to add a waterproofing layer because the &*&*& builders didn't; learning that I, in ( Read more... )