Well, Benjamin has Hands, Foot, and Mouth. As I said in my last update, sweet Benjamin has been quarantined away from me at Marmee's because even though he didn't have symptoms, he would have been contagious if he'd picked it up from the kids we played with this weekend. Last night he complained to Marmee that his mouth hurt and today he woke up from his nap with a fever. Marmee took him to the … [Read more...]
Archives for October 2011
39 Week Update
Thanks everyone for your prayers! We feel so covered in prayer and filled with peace. So far I'm feeling fine so I don't think that I caught Hands, Foot, and Mouth (hopefully, I was exposed to it as a child and am now immune.) Sweet Benjamin has been having slumber parties at Marmee and Grandaddy's house the last couple of nights since he is most likely to have caught the virus. We feel bad for … [Read more...]
Prayer Request
We found out this afternoon that this weekend we were all exposed to Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease. Although it's usually a mild illness, if a pregnant woman close to delivery catches the virus, it can be transferred to the newborn and in certain cases can be very serious, even fatal for the infant. At this point we don't know if any of us have it, but we spent several hours with children who were … [Read more...]
Waiting: Pregnancy Update Week 38
I'm still pregnant. Now there's nothing unreasonable about still being pregnant at 38.3 weeks EXCEPT that I've had almost every pre-labor symptom known to man (except my water breaking) in the past week. On three different nights last week I had a few contractions strong enough to think...hmmm, is this it? It was not it. But the good news is that my midwife told me last Tuesday that I was … [Read more...]
