October 26, 2008

[Nathan] I hope this is a little more recent than other posts for all of you who have been on us about how bad we are about updating this blog! This week my parents have been in California with my sister and her family visiting my grandparents, and going to DisneyLand. We got to call them this week and tell them that we spent a night in Labor and Delivery at the hospital. My mom of course started freaking out, and then I told her that the baby was still in Mary's belly. She then told me to tell her the truth, and I was smiling, but able to tell her that I was. So for all of you who are already wondering where the pictures of our new arrival are in this post, stop looking now, because she still hasn't arrived yet. Are you confused yet? Ok, here's the story.

Thursday morning I came home from working a midnight shift to find Mary hadn't slept very much at all and had been throwing up since about 3:00 AM that morning. She told me that she felt like her blood pressure was high, and that got me a little worried since she has this Gestational Hypertension. We called the doctor's office and they said we could come in if we wanted to. We decided to wait to see how Mary felt, and I tried to get to sleep. I slept from about 11:00 - 1:30, when Mary woke me up saying she wanted to go to the doctor, but didn't feel like she could drive. So I got up and took her. They saw her, and although her blood pressure wasn't really any higher than it had been, they said she was dehydrated. Mary didn't feel like she could keep down liquids, so Dr. Jones wrote an order for 2 one liter bags of IV fluid, which we spent 2-3 hours getting downstairs from their office at Portneuf IV therapy. I hadn't been feeling overly well myself that week, and maybe I just had nerves, but periodically that day I felt under the weather myself. Mary started feeling better with the fluids, but once we were done and back in the car, she got sick and threw up again. So I took her home, and ran by myself to the last session of our birthing class, which gratefully, they let me video-tape so Mary could see later. When I got back that night, she was still feeling icky and had been throwing up still. The doctor's office had told us that we could go to Labor and Delivery during the night if we needed to. We slept from about 11:00 PM to 1:30 AM, when I had the alarm set to wake us so Mary could try to get some more fluids. We went back to bed, and I slept until about 2:30, Mary didn't really sleep, but then I woke up as she was going to throw up again, and told her we should go to the hospital. We got ready and went, getting there about 3:30 or 3:45. They put us in a room in Labor and Delivery, monitored the baby for a bit, and gave Mary an IV. The baby seemed as active as ever, and her heartbeat was fine. Mary's IV gave her 3 more one liter bags of fluids, along with Phenergan for the nausea. This let her sleep some and I nodded off in a chair that pulls out to be a bed of sorts. We were there sleeping until just before 10:00 AM that morning. I was glad they didn't have a rush for beds in the department so we were able to sleep and be OK. This was lucky because the day before they said it had been crazy and packed. Mary was able to keep some stuff down that next day, and now is feeling quite a bit better. They told us as we left the hospital that she had all the signs of the bug that had been going around. I wonder if I have it or will get it, since I've had some feelings along that line, and the nurse said basically I would get it because of how contagious it is.

Anyways, Mary just chastized me for making this another novel, I guess I put in a lot of detail and some of you don't get this far in reading these, so I apologize if I'm making these too long, but I thought an update would be appreciated. Catch you later!