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That’s a cool dohickey

February 27th, 2009 Leave a comment Go to comments

heart monitor

This is the most important machine to us right now. That monitors Teaspoon’s heartbeat, Lushie’s blood pressure  and contractions. Lushie is only 32 weeks along and as of 12pm yesterday we’ve been residents of UPMC. I wasn’t going to post anything but the wife insisted I do something to not go stir crazy in this chair. I’m taking full advantage of UPMC’s free wifi in the room :)   It is pretty cool to be sitting in this chair and listening to his heartbeat on the speaker. Actually rather soothing.

The contractions are for the most part coming under control and tomorrow morning we will have the results of some tests that were done. I admit that I was terrified for awhile but there is a top notch staff helping us out and I was assured Teaspoon is in excellent health. Come on buddy, you just need to cook for a few more weeks! 8 would be fantastic!

This isn’t something they tell you to be ready for and if it wasn’t for Lamaze class showing us breathing techniques it would be an even longer night.  Lushie is jacked too because we had just gone grocery shopping when the contractions started and wouldn’t you know it, all of the meats, dips and cheese had to get tossed. Tragic.

I want to thanks everyone who has txt/emailed us support and a big thanks to my bro for bringing me some grub for dinner. I haven’t had an appetite for much but that hit the spot!

cheers!

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    • http://www.burghseyeview.com Jen

      Thinking of you both. Tell Teaspoon he’s not allowed to come out yet. He’s not done cooking!

    • Phil

      We’ll be thinking about you guys all weekend, Doug. Tell Mr. Teaspoon to hold his horses. He’s got a bit more fermenting to do, then he can start running the show around here.

      Keep us posted. Know that you’re in all of our thoughts!

    • http://bricksandboxes.com Brother Anthony

      Sounds like things are in good hands. Praying for you. I’m sure things will turn out well.

    • sunshine

      hey bro im glad everything has turned out alright…i let sis know that tomarrow ill give ya a call after everything settles down a bit… looking forward to july and i can finally come up and see my little nephew…