Sunday Scary Sunday

Check, check, check. Is this thing on? Okay good.

Day one of McBaby's blog is day 1 5/6 in the hospital. Weekend back pain turned into a phone call, which turned into a trip to the doctor's office, which turned into a pretty scary moment and a long stay in the hospital. So here we are.

First thing's first, baby is doing fantastic and mom is much better than she was two days ago - I think. After pretty bad back aches on Saturday and Sunday, Jenny decided to call the on-call dr. at her hospital Sunday night. She (the dr.) said it didn't sound bad, but to come on in and get checked out. We got there, everything was looking great, they were starting to think kidney infection, checked her cervix and bam! Three to four centimeters dilated at 30 weeks - not good.

Jenny was put on a Magnesium drip to stop the labor along with some other shots and a lot of scary information and few dozen signatures later, she was transported to another hospital, because of its NICU. Since getting here, she has stabilized, got the shots and meds the docs want the baby to have and is now completely unhooked and off the Mag drip. From where we were two days ago and what they were telling us then, this is a great place to be. One doctor thought she would deliver Monday. This morning, for the first time, the doctors were using more "probably's" than "hopefully's."

From here, it's a waiting game. Baby could come before I have this posted or he could hold out until his due date on Jan. 29. Not likely, but a possibility. Jenny will be here until the baby is born, unless she stays stable for a significant amount of time (probably a month). We have received so much support and are eternally grateful. We have talked a lot about the amazing family and friends that we have. Thank you all for your thoughts, prayers, texts, calls, emails and everything else. Look forward to McMama writing the rest of these too. I just had to get her started.

Keep on keepin on - McDad