In My Absence
Last Thursday I didn’t post a Dear Miri letter because I was hospitalized due to gestational hypertension. After talk of a possible amniocentesis (evil talk to this needle-phobe!) and maybe inducing, we decided against those procedures in favor of waiting on her lung development to be up to par before we reconsider inducing. I was sent home last night after 6 days in the hospital and put on bedrest.
Miriam is doing just fine - active as ever with a strong little heart and a big baby head - while I am working on keeping my blood pressure down. This involves spending a majority of my time lying on my left side and doing lots of nothing. I think it’ll take a day or two just to recover from that stressful hospital stay (though a shout-out to my lovely nurses Gloria, Shyla, Mary, Jaime and Shelly!) before we know how I’m really doing. I doubt I’ll be writing for a bit, but I do promise at least a weekly update with our condition, hopefully in the form of more Dear Miri letters. Maybe I’ll write them out and have Husband type them… Oh Justin!…
March 12th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
EEK!
Miri, you stay in there nice and comfy until it’s actually time. Stop giving your mother heart attacks. Plenty of time for that when you’re a teenager.
Hope you’re well, even if bored…
March 14th, 2008 at 6:49 am
**hugs** If you’re like me, you’re stressing right now about how to relieve stress and raising your blood pressure by trying to get the blood pressure down.
Can you knit? I hear lots and lots of garter stitch makes for low blood pressure and nice baby blankets.
**hugs**
March 18th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Yes, Miri. Let mommy rest!! You have the rest of your life to give her heart attacks!
March 20th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
Hey Girl,
You take care of yourself and that little girl of yours. Rest, you’re growing another human being, that takes lots of energy.
Hugs,
WC
May 10th, 2008 at 11:11 pm
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