We begin a new day with Jamie doing well in the hospital on Oct. 29. John and I get ready and head to the hospital to see how she is doing. The doctor was continuing the protein test and would have the results soon after we arrived, or so we thought. It wasn't until mid-afternoon that we got the results. The nurse said that the protein level in Jamie's urine was 1032 which wasn't good considering the normal level is about 150. Needless to say I was pretty worried about my little girl. They decided to continue to monitor her and would start another test on Friday through Saturday.
With these results we decided to visit with Jamie and just hang out with her in the hospital. They told her she wouldn't be going home without the baby. I'm assuming that meant without delivering the baby which could have meant a couple months in the hospital if necessary.
Around 6:35 PM Jamie called the nurse to ask for some medicine for her back pain. The nurse seemed worried about this and called the doctor to let her know what was going on. The doctor said to keep an eye on things for now and see how things progress. The nurse put a monitor on Jamie to see if the pain was from contractions but they were not. She also ran two tests on the baby to see how she was doing. The test consists of watching her heart rate over a period of time to see if it increases for at least 10 seconds beating 10 beats higher than normal rate. Both tests were fine so they continued to monitor both Jamie and the baby.
Since Jamie was doing okay Josh was able to go to work and I planned to spend the night with Jamie so that he could get some rest at home when he was done working.
The best laid plans don't always work out.
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