Released

We've made through three of our four major hurdles. We got through 48 hours without infection. Passing this milestone resulted in our release from the hospital. The MFM said we need to make it for two more weeks to have a good shot a delivery close to term. Hope, hope, hope, and rest is all we can do.

I am now on bed rest at home. This is going to be very challenging for all of us. Ross will be left with all the work that he does plus all the daily chores that I usually do. I have nothing but awe for single parents. When Ross had his appendix removed, I was left to all the work for only a couple days and it felt like A LOT. Ross has an amazing capacity for hard work, but I really worry about the stress of this on him. Wyatt is already showing that he's under stress as well. Four nigths without his mama is a lot. We have been fortunate that until this point we have had the luxury of keeping Wyatt on a pretty tight schedule. Ross and I are really creatures of habit and Wyatt has fallen right in with this. Needless to say the last few days have turned that upside down a bit. Luckily for us, Wyatt has spent the night several times with Bobo and regards that as a vacation, so it wasn't upsetting at all (in fact he was pretty thrilled) to have her as his primary caretaker. He loves spending time with Pops and Bobo and he's going to be doing a lot of that over the next several months. That said, a little chaos has crept into his world and it is starting to take its toll on him. For me, well, you can imagine type-A-minus on bed rest for weeks. I am most disappointed that I am not getting to spend time doing lots of fun stuff with Wyatt this summer as I had planned AND that I am causing Ross so much stress. BUT, priority one is getting our little girl to full term or close to it.

We've made it through so much with Wallis; or she's it made it through so much with us. We just need a couple more miracles so she can join our family. We have years of family fun to look forward to. Just taking it day by day.