scary news
My brother and SIL just called and she was in the hospital today for preterm labor. She'd had what turned out to be contractions for at least a day (pain in her lower back, tummy ache and then her thighs hurting). she thought she had a kidney infection since the back pain was centered on one side, but while at college today, she started spotting.
the dr.s sent her to the labor/delivery floor and they had everything prepped for delivery if they couldn't stop the labor. They DID get it stopped though, thank God. They didn't believe her when she said she was only 21 weeks because they told her 'she was having contractions of a 7 or 8 month pg woman'
: stupid people like that, geez!
she was told by the L&D dr. that her cervix is already thinned to 25%,
so not good, and that her cervix was 'starting to open'.
They did get great heartbeats of the baby on the belly monitors too and said he was very active.
they gave her a shot of something to stop the labor, she doesn't know what it was though.
she goes back in the morning for a follow up with her OB.
The dr. recommended bedrest, but she says she needs to work since they just got into this house. He said he'd give her 4 days to try out a cashier position where she works if they can have a stool for her to sit on so she's not on her feet. no sweeping/mopping/nothing for her.
she called to ask if there was an exercise or something to help stop the contrax.
she knew the kegals helped strengthen the muscles there, but I told her that no, if there was, it'd be in all the pg books.
I told her to be lazy and enjoy it!
I called my mom after I got off the phone to tell her so she can get a prayer chain going too. gotta pray that little guy stays in there to cook!
oh, they gave her a new EDD that's in April.
I guess that's when she hits third tri (haven't looked it up, she's 2 weeks ahead of me) and that really freaked her out. she's scared and upset of course. I told her its possible this could put her in a high risk pg group when she has any more kids. (totally thinking of Shayna the whole time, wishing they could talk!).
I just hope and pray little Landon stays inside to bake as long as possible.
and he's kicking well above my belly button now. right now he's back at bamboozling my bladder. 
it's working, we're progressing at the rate of 7 days worth of work in 4 days, so here's hoping it's finished before baby comes!
I had to cancel my pic appt with Kate tomorrow cause the Pres will be in Nashville through the time of our appointments and we'd have to go through one of the areas that are going to be shut down for a few hours. dh told me tonight he'd 'appreciate it' if I could reschedule. 
she was great though and is letting us reschedule whenever dh's schedule is open. hopefully a weekend SOON.
the Expedition we looked at yesterday could seat 9! *cool!* I like having room in case someone wants to ride with us or something. I want something bigger, heck the kids legs are getting longer everyday and even with a grand caravan, the back seats are crowded for katlyn and gav. I'm going to hate the gas mileage though. 
got pics I'll post tomorrow!
maybe. 
and to show how fast we're able to work through these, Katlyn is already as far in her history/science now since we just got her books in Dec, as she is in her language that was started in August! big difference! I hope the rest of the school year goes like that. 
its a two day drive for them, being in semis, but he'll be home on Wednesday at least! wee!!
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) and even vacuumed the ceiling all around it. we have a 'popcorn' ceiling, so all that dust was clinging to it. bleh! all clean now! I got the furniture too (all that high stuff I don't normally see from my vantage point 
