Baby Henry Update

Baby Henry is doing great and is slowly growing (which is great news).  After a few days in the hospital (and a lot of IV fluids), my amniotic fluid levels are better and the blood flow in the cord has improved (at least, in each case, improved to borderline levels so that we can buy baby some more time in the womb). Best of all - I convinced them to let me wait it out at home (thankfully, all those years of negotiating for a living came in handy). I do, however, have to go in daily for sonograms to make sure my placenta is still hanging in there. After all the medical tests and diagnoses - here is my breakdown of what is going on. My placenta is like an old Honda car with 200K miles on it - the A/C has gone out, the windows won't roll down and there is a knock in the engine........but it is still running. So, for as long as it is still running and baby is ok, we are going to wait it out.

I very much believe that your body knows how to handle pregnancy and that my body will tell me (and baby) when it is time to evacuate. But just in case, I have lots of super qualified medical professionals watching daily...so I think we are good. I will let everyone know if anything changes and, most importantly, when little baby Henry makes his arrival. I am hoping that he is much more low key than the last few weeks of this pregnancy have been.

David is doing great and still enjoying his summer. He had a really hard time with me being in the hospital - especially the first night that he realized that they had to leave me there. He was very concerned and had lots of questions about whether I was going to be okay. Matt spent a lot of time explaining to him that they were just checking on baby Henry, but every time David came to visit - David insisted on asking the nurses if "mommy was ok"... I think he just wanted a non-biased second opinion to make sure Matt and I weren't sugar coating anything. David was very happy when I got back home and just wanted to lay in bed with me, read books and snuggle: