1st Day in the hospital

Our Thanksgiving weekend is not going so well just yet. Junior C. Monkey is in danger of being born now at 20 weeks and if so he will not make it. We found out the Wednesday before Thanksgiving that Junior is a boy! He is doing fine, but it's me that is having problems

At 3am Friday morning I got up to go to the bathroom and something didn't feel right and I was bleeding. It didn't stop so I called the hospital and they told us to come in. We got her about 3:30am. They began monitoring the baby and everything seemed fine. When the my doctor came in to exam me he found my cervix was 100% dialated meaning I have already gone into labor. Because I am 100% dialated there is nothing they can do to stop it.

I have a condition called Incompetent Cervix which means that once the baby started putting pressure on my cervix my cervix opened immediately without warning. There is nothing we could have done to test for this except be pregnant and see if I can hold it.

The next step in delivery is for my water to break, but it hasn't yet. As long as my water doesn't break Junior will still be OK. The doctor expected my water to break yesterday/last night I'm still here and so is Junior we've been holding out for 38 hours so far. We can opt to break my water which will not change the outcome, Junior will not survive at 20 weeks. Bbut Scott and I have decided to leave it in GOD's hands and let nature take it's course. We are not going to make the decision to break my water unless it gets to the point that it effects me. Doctor tells me that both baby and I are suseptable to infection now, but we still want to hold out and see.

I am in the hospital now and have been since yesterday morning. I will be here for as long as it takes. If my water breaks Junior will be delivered immediatly and will not survive, but if I hold out for 21 days then Junior's lungs will developed to survive on his own. I'm praying that I stay healthy and that my water holds out a little longer.

We are praying for a miracle to hold out for at least 21 days, but the dr has guarded us against getting our hopes ups. He expects my water to break anytime because I guess it's unusual to get to full dialation and have the water still in tact.

I just wanted to let everyone know. I didn't want to put a damper on your holiday, but I wanted to let everyone know who doesn't already know. We've told the family and everyone I have cell phone numbers for which isn't very many after my phone died and I lost all the numbers. I'm starting from scratch so I really don't know who has gotten this message and who has not. Don't worry though we are doing OK, we don't need anything, and I'm not in any pain. I'm just a little sad. Scott and I are ready to deal with whatever the outcome is.

Thank you to all whom are already praying for us and thinking of us. We'll keep in touch and let you knw how it's going in a couple of days.

Love
Nolie, Socttie and Junior C. Monkey