Indigestion

We have heard many stores of couples going into the hospital thinking they were going into labor and then being sent home on account of indigestion; however, we have heard few stories of which the couple went in thinking it was indigestion to have it be that they were potentially going into labor.

We were released from the hospital today around 1:30pm this afternoon after what was a crazy 36 hours in the hospital.  The last two days came at a complete surprise to us, as it did you so let me quickly recap what happened to you and the diagnosis.

Shannon called me from class on Tuesday evening saying that her stomach hurt thinking it was something she ate. When she got home from class her stomach still hurt and the pain was moving into her back.  After calling her doctor we were told to come in to the hospital.  We went and were asked questions that we have never been asked, they asked Shannon "Do they feel like contractions?" to which her response was "What do contractions feel like?"  Very quickly we realized that Shannon was having contractions less then 2 minutes apart from each other for a number of hours.

The diagnosis: The doctors were able to stop the contractions (which is good because we are only at 32 weeks in our pregnancy and baby V needs more time to develop).  After MANY tests they were able to figure out that it was not pre-term labor, but that Shannon's body was fighting some sort of a infection (seen by a high white cell blood count) and this somehow triggered the contractions.  

The doctors treated the infection with antibiotics but were not able to decisively say what caused the infection in the first place.  They have told Shannon to "take it easy" but did not put her on bed rest.  Our son is doing great, every time the doctors came in they commented on how active he is, and he was diligent about kicking at any sort of devices that they tried to put on Shans stomach.  The truth is that hearing his heartbeat for the last 36 hours brought us so much joy, I couldn't look away from the machine that gave us the count per minute.

Our continue prayer is that the infection doesn't return, that Shan continues to get more healthy and that baby V is born healthy and not for another month or so.

THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR PRAYERS AND SUPPORT, last night as Shannon was sleeping I pulled my phone out and spent about a hour or so reading (in tears of gratitude) through messages from you all.  We are SO blessed to have you in our life and can't wait to one day (in about 1 1/2 month) to introduce you to our son.