Hospital update

The latest update is that Laura and the babies are in the hospital for the duration.

Friday May23rd, (yesterday) was our five year Quaker wedding anniversary!  Just after our anniversary dinner, Laura had some tiny gushes of water.  When we got to the hospital to check things out, it became clear that Charlie had broken his water.  Laura's not in labor, though, so the babies can all potentially stay in for quite awhile still.  It turns out that the amniotic fluid re-fills, so even though his bag of waters is leaky, it's getting re-filled!

What this means is that Laura is in the hospital for as long as she is pregnant, which we're hoping is still quite awhile.  

There are lots of possibilities in our future, including a chance that Charlie might be born first, leaving John and Peggy in utero for longer.  There's no way to know what the future holds for all of us, but for right now all is good and everyone is healthy and well.

Here are some pictures of hospital action:

Laura modeling her lovely blue gown as she got checked in Friday night.

 Many, many thanks to Lewis Fuller, who got us snacks at 11pm on Friday so Hannah didn't need to leave the hospital.  Since Laura has to eat every 2 hours and hospital food isn't always available or delicious, snacks are crucial to her health and happiness.  Laura and the babies love the greek yogurt and sardines with mustard and dill, although not usually together.

Christina Repoley and Dean Leeper (and their baby in utero) came to visit us this evening and brought a delicious taco dinner.  It was so lovely to have delicious homemade food and good company.

 Laura with the cream container from dessert- "Made Right Here". Check out the lovely cards and flowers to cheer Laura during the day.  Laura brought the three peace cranes from our Babies Shower along to the antepartum room to symbolize the three babies.  Here she's sitting on the couch that flips over and turns into Hannah's bed (and is pretty comfy, too).

We have had some visitors, which is lovely, but please check with us before coming over so we don't get too overtired, since it's hard to sleep well at the hospital.  At this point the most helpful thing seems to be for people to sign up to bring us dinner in the evenings so that we can both visit with friends and Hannah doesn't have to spend time away from the hospital at home cooking.  Our care committee will be setting up a website where people can sign up to bring us meals, or help in other ways. As soon as that's set up, we will post the link in case folks want to help out.

We are so grateful to live when and where we do, and to have such a great community of support. Our doctor is wonderfully optimistic, which is so helpful.  All of the residents and nurses have been so friendly and helpful, too. As hospitals go, we're pretty comfortable here, and grateful that Laura and the babies are getting such good care.