No Baby Yet

Sorry to have not updated everyone in a little while. Unfortunately it's not because we rushed off to the hospital in labor and have been wrapped up in babyness ever since.

There is still no change in Kass' progression as of Wednesday's Dr.'s appointment. We go back again this Wednesday for another regularly scheduled appointment. Her actual due date is this next Sunday, so we should be getting closer now.

So please be in prayer for us... especially Kassie. I'm doing pretty good with the patience because let's face it, I don't have to carry around a full term baby in my belly at this point. Kass has gotten a little cabin fever over Spring Break without the distraction of school and what not. (If any of you happen to be free anytime this week let us know, I've been trying to get her out of the house to go hang out with friends to no avail... but if one of you asks maybe she'll go for it :)

Overruled

First off, for those of you who notice I'm posting this right in the middle of Sunday School... we love you all, but didn't really feel like answering the same questions over and over... and she is supposed to rest as much as possible and sitting in a chair for 3 hours is probably not a great idea. She hasn't be ordered to strict bedrest, thank the Lord, but she was told to just take it easy.

Second, I am going to try to post a poll in the right column... Right now we are leaning heavily toward Lakyn Faith... but if we make it till Tuesday and have her then I think it is only right that we change Faith to Patricia. It only makes sense... St. Patrick's Day... she should totally have Patricia Day in her name!! We'll see how it goes if I can get the poll working.

There's No Place Like Home...

So this morning we got sent home. She is still at 4cm and having some contractions, but they are weak and don't seem to be progressing her dilations. So now it is back to the 'comfort' of home to wait this thing out. The nurse that did the discharge what somewhat less than optimistic. She was sure to mention that she wouldn't be surprised at all to see us back this evening or tomorrow... but she also told us to be sure and plan to attend our next scheduled Dr.'s appt which is Wednesday.

Thank you all soooooo much for your prayers for the physical aspect. They have worked I am confident! We are doing what her body wants and not forcing anything along or anything like that. So as much as it stinks to have to come home when we were 'in progress' at the hospital it is where we should be.

I now move my request for prayers to the psychological and spiritual sides of things. As you can imagine it's not the greatest thing to be sent home from the hospital once you'd gotten your hopes up. We are comforted by you guys' prayers and thoughts and appreciate all of those continued on our behalf!

The Update I Promised Not To Give

So it has been a very long day. Well, my body (and kass's) is telling me it has been a long day. It seemed to fly by in about 3 hours. Once Kass reached 4 and they admitted us the contractions continued for a little while then kind of tapered off. So we hopped out of bed and went roaming the halls. Once we got back from that the contractions came back with a vengeance as far as frequency goes. They were piggybacking (just as one starts to go down another would come back up) every 4-6 minutes for most of the afternoon. They were strong enough to be of significant discomfort to my angel, but not strong enough to warrant grunts, moans, and glares of hate.

Right before shift change (6:30pm) they came and checked her and she had not progressed :(. At this point they had already warned that if she didn't progress they might send her home. Luckily her OB professor (Dr. Brice, who is now my favorite faculty member of all time) had come and spent several hours with us, coaching her through her contractions and answering all our (mainly mine) ignorant questions. She had them give her a sandwich so her body would have some source of energy to do its thing since she hadn't eaten since last night at dinner.

AND THEN... SHIFT CHANGE. Dr. Brice was still here when it came time to change nurse/Dr. shifts. Try to tell me THIS isn't a GOD thing: our new nurse comes walking in and immediately is like, "Oh, Dr. Brice... How are you doing?!?!" and gives her a big hug. This particular nurse also went through nursing school and had bonded with Dr. Brice. And get this, she had a baby in January of her last semester of nursing school! So not only do we have an in through their common like for Dr. Brice, but she is totally empathetic to Kass's situation. And to top it all off she is one of the nicest people I have ever met. To top it off, the new attending Dr. is also totally awesome. He came by to visit and was quite jovial and just a great guy in general. Our Dr. had expressed her interest in being here for our birth and she comes on tomorrow. So instead of more threats to be sent home he said, and I quote, "We're just goin' to let you simmer tonight and see where we are in the morning." What kind of Dr. says "simmer"?!?!?! An awesome one apparently.

So after a few trying hours today God has provided an awesome set of care takers and a brighter outlook on having this sweet little girl!

By all means we still need all the prayers we can get. If we are not going to end up getting sent home Kass needs to progress some over the night. They don't want to induce since she is only 37 wks just in case the lungs aren't fully formed, they want to do what her body wants to do. Which is totally understandable, just kind of grating on the ole nerves. From what I hear with first time moms the 4cm to 5cm barrier is the toughest, so if we are indeed meant to get past it pray that it goes well... I'm just kind of throwing stuff out there... you mothers know much better than I do so I'll leave it in your hands.

Love you all. Thanks for all the comments on the last post. The hospital is UMC by the way Ash :)

God is Great

God truly works in mysterious ways. This morning I (Jac) was supposed to substitute out at Frenship. I had gotten up and about and was getting ready to head to the school. As usual I had woken Kass up (as she is quite a light sleeper) but this morning I noticed she had a concerned look on her face. She had been trying for about 20 minutes to get the baby to move but wasn't having any luck. (For those of you who aren't walking calendars, we are 37 weeks 5 days today.) So naturally I called in and we headed to triage. They hooked her to the monitor and found a strong, normal heartbeat.

They decided to hold on to her for a little while just to do some blood work and all that jazz that is normal for when you come to triage. Along with the baby heart monitor there is another one they strap to the mom that keeps track of contractions. Come to find out Kass was having contractions so they checked her progress and she was at 2-3cm, 75% effaced... up from 1cm and 50% on Wednesday. They decided to keep her around for another hour and at that point checked her again and she was 5cm outside, 3cm inside and 75% effaced. So the doctor sent us for a walk around the hospital and an hour later we were at 4cm! That means admission to L&D. So here we are laboring away... obviously I'm not doing much... but Kass is. She has done super so far and is handling the pain and everything very well.

I don't really plan on taking time out to post any more until after our little one gets here. So please keep us in your prayers and I'll let you all know more later on.

6th Post!

Recently a close friend posted her 100th post. So I thought I'd update y'all on our number of posts... SIX!! I know, it seems like only last November since we got started. She also had a celebratory tone to said post, so I thought I'd follow suit. For those of you who were around, you'll remember we were asking for prayer in our pursuit of a home in the metroplex. Well, God through an absolutely amazing deal right in our laps! So here it is as you see it from the street:

And here is the view from the front porch... note the awesome playground in the next lot over, literally.

Game Night!

So most of you have played the game where you get a stack of papers and sit in a circle. Each person writes a common phrase or adage on their first paper. Then you pass it to the person next to you and they move the paper to the back and do their best to draw your phrase, pictionary style. After 1 minute everyone passes their current stack along in the same direction and now everyone has 1 minute to guess what the picture represents. You pass the papers all the way around the circle alternating between drawing and guessing the phrase until your original stack gets back to you. It gets pretty amusing to go through the different stacks.

With that said, I present to you all a paper that I was passed and told to guess the common phrase that goes with it. So keep in mind that the artist (Amber) was given a paper with a common saying on it and she drew it to the best of her ability in 1 minute. Be a sport and look at it for a bit before scrolling down and see if you can guess what the saying is.


Do you have a guess? Before I explain it, let me just say that we batted 1000 during the game including a picture that had three ->, a 2, a campfire, and an upside down acorn. But I digress... did you guess that the saying for the picture above is "Smooth as a baby's butt"? Cause I DID!! Unfortunately this one went WAY downhill shortly after I passed it off... haha.

I must admit I thought the game was going to be really lame, but was happy to be proven VERY wrong.