Soula is in the hospital.  She went for her doctor’s appointment today and they sent her to the hospital.  As of now she is being monitored closely (baby heart rate monitor plus all the normal equipment they hook you up to in the hospital) and I expect some kind of a decision will be made either tonight or tomorrow.  The options are to keep her there for a few days or until the baby is born, send her home for continued bed rest, induce labor or do a c-section now.  And, that last option of inducing labor or doing a c-section could be held off on for a week or two.

The baby seems to be fine at this point.  Soula, however, is still having problems with erratic blood pressure as well as a low amount of amniotic fluid.  She is also having a lot of pain in her back and other parts of her body–pain that is not contractions (neither the real thing nor Braxton-Hicks).  So I am glad she is in the hospital right now.  That’s better than laying around at home worrying.

Now I’m the one at home worrying!  When I thought they had a month to go, I was still fairly calm.  Now that it’s possible this little boy may be here sooner, I’m very nervous and anxious and excited.  I haven’t seen Soula since she got pregnant, so all of this having a baby stuff has kind of just been talk.  Had I been around her and seen the baby growing, I think I might have gotten excited earlier.  But now, it finally seems real.

I last talked with Kevin this afternoon, so have no news for the past 4-5 hours.  I tried calling, but no one is at home.  Will update as soon as I have anything new to report.