Year: 2009

Complications

Well Chloe is having some complications this morning. The nurse came in to tell me that after I had nursed her during the night, her color started going from pink to grey and that her oxygen had been really low. So they have her on oxygen now, and the blood work they did on her last night suggested that she might have some infection, so they have her on IV antibiotics for the next 48 hours minimum. 🙁 They also ordered a chest x-ray, and it came back a bit cloudy/streaky, so the doctor said that could be showing an infection, or it could just be fluid that is still in her system from having just been born. I also have a high white blood cell count so they are going to be putting me on antibiotics as well as soon as we hear from the midwife that is on call today so that the nurses know which antibiotic to give me. So now I’m wondering what was causing the fever in me yesterday, because it seems to have caused all these other problems. 🙁

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Doesn’t she just look so sad with that needle taped to her arm. 🙁

I LOVE the rain :)

This has been a most beautiful spring here in Utah. Usually the weather is a lot of hot and a lot of cold. But this year, the winter is gone that is obvious, so it’s no longer cold. But it hasn’t really been hot either. We’ve had quite a bit of rain this season which I just love. Rain means that I don’t need to go out and water the garden, or the lawn, or the fruit trees. Here it is June and we still haven’t needed to turn on our sprinklers to water the front lawn. It’s nice and green, a bit weedy, but still it’s green! And I have only had to turn on the A/C twice so far this season. It’s just been so nice. Today has been another rainy day, so beautiful. The sun poked out this evening but I noticed that it was still raining, then I saw this HUGE rainbow:

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There is even a shadow of the rainbow above it that you can kind of see in the picture. So beautiful.

37 1/2 Weeks!

Closer and closer we get to having our new little bundle. Every day we are just one day closer! Today at my appointment my midwife checked my progress from last week. This week I am dialated to 4 cm, about 80% effaced, and the baby is head down at -1 station (right there in the pelvis). So it’s looking like the baby may come sometime in this next week or so! They also told me that I tested positive for Group B Strep. 🙁 So that means I have no choice but to have IV antibiotics while I’m in labor so that the baby doesn’t catch it on the way out. BUMMER! But that’s nothing new, I had to have the IV antibiotics with Jeremy and Dinah’s pregnancies too. So we’ll see how the next week plays out. 😉