Baby girl looks great!! She weighed 4.1 lbs on Monday and everything looks great. So, the question is, are they going to let me leave the hospital for good (until I deliver). The answer - No! Yah, it has been an interesting few days but I have come to accept the fact that I may be trapped in the hospital for the next 6 weeks or so. I won't go into detail but the basic reason is, I am at a higher risk for a Full Placental Abruption and that could be extremely dangerous if it happened at home! So, they want to keep me really close so that if anything happens, they can deal with it right away. Do I think this is going to happen? No! I am not giving up hope that I may still be able to go home soon and stay there until I deliver but we are taking it week by week here (not day by day anymore).
However, I do get to go out on pass today so Chris will pick me up in the afternoon and I will spend the evening with Caeleb and then back to the hospital to sleep. I actually have been sleeping really well here. I have awesome nurses and support staff, 2 great doctors and the food, well, it isn't that bad. I like the Macaroni and Cheese and the fish.
Now, to count a few of my Blessings! I have so many of them.
1). I am grateful for my husband. He never complains about having to be pretty much a single parent who works full time. He is so amazing! I don't know of anyone who could do what he is doing. He juggles getting himself and Caeleb ready and dropping Caeleb off at the babysitters by about 7:45 in the morning, doing his daily phone conference meeting while driving (no worries, he has a headset), working from home or driving around the city to different companies for work, and picking up Caeleb around 5:30 or 6:00 pm. Then he and Caeleb come and visit me before heading home to get supper ready, give Caeleb a bath, put him to bed around 8:00 pm and then Chris has to finish up documentation for work which sometimes keeps him busy until 10:00 or 11:00 pm. And the next day, he does it all over again. Weekends are spent doing laundry and other chores. He has been doing this for more than a month now even when I was at home. I would help out here and there doing what I could do with restricted activities but he took the brunt of the workload. What a guy!! I don't know if I could do it and keep his positive attitude. On top of it all, he still has the strength to be an emotional strength to me.
2). I am grateful for my brother Nathan who lives with us and is a huge help. He is always willing to help out. He will come home from a long days work and be willing to take Caeleb on the spur of the moment if Chris needs to do something. He works full time and spends alot of his extra time playing with his nephew and helping out around the house. He even found winter tires for the car and put them on the car and I feel so much better now that Chris can drive around with winter tires on. Nathan is very good at things like that. He makes yummy pork and beef roasts and provides a delicious meal for the family every once in a while which reminds us that good meals still exist when life is hectic. He is the expert at getting Caeleb to go to sleep. Caeleb and him have a special bond and they have so much fun playing and watching movies together.
3). I am grateful for my Caeleb who is such a good little boy. He goes to 3 different houses a week while his daddy is working and he seems to adapt so well. He looks forward to his playdates with the other little kids. He doesn't forget me and talks to me on the phone and gives me much needed kisses over the phone. He visits me and smiles his irresistable smile and laughs his contagious laugh and he melts my heart every time.
4). I am grateful for my sister Camellia. She has her own little family, works and still finds time to drive up to Calgary every once in a while to take care of Caeleb and provide for some cousin bonding time for Caeleb and Sterling. She cleans our house when she comes and cheers me up with her visits and phone calls.
5). I am grateful for my parents. Even though they are far away in Korea, they send encouraging words and other gifts that help our family get from one day to the next. They are where they need to be and that is a blessing to us in itself!
6). I am grateful for Chris' parents and for their kindness in their words and actions. I am grateful for the phone calls, emails and notes that have come our way throughout the years. They may be able to come out right after baby girl is born and we are so excited for that!
7). I am grateful for extended family and their encouraging emails that keep us going forward.
8). I am grateful for my cousins Paul and Kamille and their children. They watch Caeleb once a week and he so looks forward to going over there to play with them.
9). I am grateful for the Radfords and the Allreds who watch Caeleb as well during the week and add more fun and adventure to his life. I am grateful for my Relief Society sisters and all they have done for us from arranging child care to meals to visits in the hospital.
10). I am grateful that I am not actually sick while being here in the hospital. I feel perfectly fine. And I think baby girl feels fine too. She doesn't seem to be affected by what has been going on around her. The people on the medical unit that I work on are often in pain or just feel so sick. I feel like I am in perfect health. How lucky am I.
11). I am grateful to be Canadian. I can't imagine what it would be like to be down in the States and have to worry about health insurance and covering what the insurance doesn't cover. I might even be at home just praying that everything goes alright. Nothing bad with that but I do feel well taken care of here. In this situation, I believe that I am so lucky to be in Canada.
12). Most of all, I am grateful for the gosple and for the perspective it puts on life. It is such a blessing to know of our purpose being here on the earth and to know that as children of God, we all have an amazing, unique and divine potential. Our individual experiences in this life can mold each of us into exactly who our Heavenly Father knows we can become.
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