29 Weeks!

Today is day 20 in the hospital, and the end of my sixth week of bed rest. The last time I had shoes on was February 3 when I arrived at the hospital!

Being in a private room is so much nicer than sharing. Ella came for another visit on Saturday and we could let her roam around the room. She was a lot more relaxed this time and even took a few naps while she was here.

I've had a lot of time on my hands, so I've been able to start a little bit of baby knitting. We decided not to find out if we're having a boy or a girl, so naturally, I've knitted pink hats and blue hats. I scaled down the patterns to make them preemie-sized.


For the most part, our test results have been good. The non-stress tests that I have every day show good accelerations of the baby's heart rate , and the baby's doing well on the sonograms, too. We've had a couple incidents where the baby's heart rate has dropped during sonograms, but the doctors seem to think that it's due to me laying on my back. They have been monitoring us both more closely since then, and they haven't seen any more decelerations. If they start happening more frequently, it's possible that they'd make the decision to deliver the baby, so definitely don't want to see any more of those! The doctors would like to see me get as close to 34 weeks as possible... so let's hope that the baby can be patient for 5 more weeks!

One more thing - the mystery food from an earlier post was blushed pears. Gold stars to Dr. Megs and Dorothy for guessing correctly! Megs has been eating hospital food for 4 years, so that explains how she knew what they were, but I don't know where Dorothy has seen highlighter pink pears before....