[kj] OT: Stork Attack

[fatpotanga]

Jeez - all sounds very worrying.
Still, like you say baby is a strong little critter and whatever the outcome
I¹m sure baby & mom will be fine.
Fingers crossed for you all.

Jamie


On 26/2/06 17:49, "Alexander Smith" wrote:

> Since I fleetingly addressed it on my stupid weblog and on ILX, I might as
> well share it here as well, for those who like to keep up to date of such
> things.
> 
> 
> We had to check Peg (the wife) into the hospital on Friday afternoon. She'd
> started having some early contractions and some bleeding and had already
> started to dilate. They ended up putting her on a combination of steroids and
> magneseum. The steroids are to buffer the baby's development (if we delivered
> this week, we'd be uncomfortably early) and the magneseum is designed to
> curtail the contractions she's been prematurely having. The good news is that
> the baby is fine (heart beat, weight, etc.). The not so great news is that the
> magneseum treatment takes a while -- they have her on it for 24 hours and then
> take her off of it to observe her for another 24 to make sure it did the trick
> and that the contractions have stopped. They're now saying that it's highly
> unlikely that they're going to let her out of the hospital before Monday (and
> even went so far as to suggest that they might want to keep her there until
> it's time to properly deliver).  This, of course, makes life hugely difficult
> to plan (what with Charlotte -- our 2 yr old --  needing to be looked after). 
> 
> Even if they let Peg out on Monday, they're saying she should be confined to
> mandatory partial bedrest. In light of this, we're sort've scrambling to find
> an available nanny who might be able to help us through this chaotic patch.
> While it's completely great that I finally got a new job that I'm completely
> enjoying, I no longer have huge swathes off in the middle of the week to look
> after Charlotte. I'm trying to find out of the Day Care center where we take
> Charlotte on Tues and Thurs could accommodate her on the other days of the
> week, but of course, it being the fuckin' weekend, it's impossible to reach
> them.
> 
> As of Sunday noon, the magneseum treatments seem to be working. The
> contractions have been largely curtailed, and Peg's spirits are much better.
> I've been frantically bouncing between home and hospital, and my Mom has been
> gracious enough to help look after Charlotte, who herself has been
> uncharacteristically angelic throughout these proceedings. Not sure what'll
> happen for the rest of the week (if the contractions continue beyond Monday,
> they say they won't try to stop them at that point). Mercifully, the folks at
> MTVNews Online have been very supportive, understanding and accommodating
> about all of this.
> 
> More news maybe later....and hopefully it'll be happy news.


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