Antepartum

   Just wanted to update everyone who is a part of our journey. Emily is almost at 30 weeks and is at home on bed rest.  The past few weeks have been a roller coaster for us but just another chapter in the journey that we have waited to be on for some time now.  Emily's stay in the hospital was 2 weeks of cafeteria food sevice, scheduled baby monitoring and medications, wheelchair rides around the hospital (and even outside the last week), snacks, magazines, Netflix, and getting real comfortable with the nursing staff.  The staff was awesome though. They made us feel right at home, well as right at home as you can feel in a hospital room. They were all very sweet and I think Emily actually made a few friends.

Emily with her daily cafeteria lunch

I didn't have to eat the same food she did everyday, in fact eating in the cafeteria was usually more expensive than me going out to get something.  That was actually soemthing I looked forward to: going outside into the real world to get fresh air. Emily wasn't so lucky, she looked forward to ordering different foods off of the hospital menu. 
 

Emily holding on a baby monitor. They had both pink and blue straps but since we have 2 boys, one had to sacrifice.

When she was first admitted, Emily had to keep baby monitors on her belly at all times.  As she stabilized, she was permitted to be monitored twice daily, once in the morning and once at night.  This was a cool time for us as we got to hear the heartbeats often, loud and clear.  Those little guys moved around so much some days it could take up to 30 minutes to get both monitors to stay on at once.  Several times we could hear our neighbors monitors as well.  I wonder if the babies were communicating somehow...

 

 

Enjoying her first time in the Serenity garden. This place had small waterfalls, ponds, beautiful plants and scripture written all around.

After being confined to a hospital room for about 8 days, our doctor finally let me take Emily outside.  As you can tell from the picture, she enjoyed the 20 minute break very well.  It was a very serene place hidden downtown Nashville.  Pretty neat...
 

Im trying to hold down the fort as best I can. Cooking, "cleaning", mowing, doing little projects to get ready, reading books on what to expect if you are a clueless guy, the usual. We appreciate all the prayers and Emily appreciates the visits from you guys.  Now we are just in a waiting game.  This isn't the summer that we had envisioned, but God has really taken us to some awesome places so we are waiting in anticipation for the future.  Until next time...

Sadie likes having someone to lounge around with al the time. She just doesn't realize whats resting underneath her head...