Good news from the doctor

Yesterday I had a very lazy day. With all the medication they gave me on Wednesday night I slept most of the day yesterday. Allison was with me up until about lunch and then she had to leave. Dad decided he would come up and got here around 3. Up until last night I was just so drowsy that I couldn't hold my head up. After dinner I was finally getting better and I was afraid that I wouldn't sleep last night. Phillip stayed last night and will be here with me for a few weeks now because he has some time off. Luckily I was able to get some sleep last night. And, the breakfast trays were late coming around so I was able to sleep in a little this morning. I haven't seen the doctor yet this morning but it looks like nothing is really changing right now. Some of the nurses up here have had a stomach virus and mom has had it. I sure hope that I do not get it. That would be awful to be us here with it but at least they would be able to give me some medication if I do happen to get it. There is also another lady that was admitted this week that will be here as long as me. I have seen her once but I did not get the chance to talk to her. I do know that she had some family up last night and they had brought her a Christmas tree and were decorating it for her. I know it is bad to be up here during this time of the year but decorating the room for Christmas did help me a lot. It also helps to have a lot of things from home. The nurses like to pick on us because I have sheets from home, blankets, and Allison even brought bath mats for the bathroom. Every little thing helps to make it feel more like home.

The doctor just came in today and we received some good news. The doctor is giving me the choice of them performing another amnio on Monday to check lung maturity. If the lungs are mature then they will induce. The other choice, or what will happen if the lungs are not ready, is induction at 37 weeks. Either way in two weeks we will have our little one and I will be able to get out of the hospital. Right now I am leaning toward the amnio just to see if the lungs are developed. I ask you to pray that the lungs have developed so that we can have our little one before Christmas. The doctor told us that there is no way to guess and know how much lung maturity has happened since the last test and that at some point something inside just happens and the lungs rapidly develop. This process could have already happened or not. We are praying that it has already happened but at least we know there is an end in sight if it has not happened as of Monday.