After the excitement of this weekend, we've decided to set up this blog to keep you up to date on the latest activity regarding the arrival of our new baby. His due date is January 28th, so needless to say, we've been pretty busy preparing the house for the new arrival.
You'll have to excuse me if my writing style is a little drier than normal, and I apologize for the poor syntax and grammatical errors inherent in our stream-of-consciousness blog. The blog is really intended to keep the greatest number of people up to date in the fastest manner during these crazy times.
Oh yeah. The excitement this weekend. Well, Friday morning started our as a beautiful winter day here in northern NJ. The trees were covered with a light layer of shiny, dense snow. I leave for work. About halfway into my commute, I get a call from Toni telling me that she's fallen. She is distressed and in a lot of pain. I hurry home. toni had slipped on the stairs in back of our house and hurt her knee.
We spent Friday into Saturday shuttling between the ER and the Labor and Delivery wing of the hospital. After the initial diagnosis of a damaged medial collateral ligament (MCL), Toni was hooked up to an array of monitors tracking the baby's heartbeat. About 330PM, they wheel a woman who has just delivered her baby via c-section into the bay next to Toni. Her baby starts crying, and like magic, the baby monitor starts showing contractions. Every time the little newborn next door made a cry, Toni had a contraction on the monitor. Most interesting of all, the contractions were pretty long, up to 30 seconds in length. i started to think that we were going to have the baby that night.
Later in the evening, the contractions subsided. Once our MD's were certain that we were not going to deliver, we were discharged. Toni is now stuck wearing an immobilizer on her left leg, whihc I'm sure will be really interesting when the real labor starts. By the way, that might not take too long. Toni's contractions have been increasing in intensity all weekend.
All was normal in today's visit to the OB for follow-up. We'll be at the orthopedic office this afternoon. I'll post more details afterwards. For those of you who know us well, you know that we can't seem to do anything the easy way.
Change continues.
Jim
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5 comments:
Sore knee: not good for chasing baby around. Hope you're feeling better soon!
I would love to hear that you are resting!!!!!!
I love you!!!!
Allison
Thanks for sharing your excitement but I hope that you are pampering the "Mom to be" and that you are both getting lots of sleep... you will need it when your bundle of joy arrives.. Miss you guys and I would to see you after the big day to visit your little angel...
Christine Ricci
Too bad you didn't get photos of the incident. I'm sure we could find someone to sue (like your husband)...The good news is that your knee should be totally healed by the time Luca is ready for rugby! For now, just sit back and let Jim do all the work, er most of the work . . .
You look great!
Congratulations to Mom & Dad. Luca is very lucky to have such wonderful parents. Toni I hope you are able to get some rest. Love you lots!! José
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