Back at the Hospital

So Skye went back into the hospital last night. Her water broke at about 9:30pm. Apparently - contrary to popular belief - having your water break does NOT necessarily mean you're going to have babies right away. They say it's 50/50 that she'll go into labor within 48 hours. It is possible that we can keep the babies inside Skye for another 3 weeks or so. At 34 weeks, they deem the risk of infection greater than the risk of prematurity, so I guess they would induce at 34 weeks if she makes it that far.

But...(this is just my opinion)...there's a good chance we'll have babies here in the next few days. This would mean a stint (perhaps several weeks) in the NICU for the babies (probably some breathing assistance, tube feeding, etc.). For those of you who know Skye well, you know that NICU is not a place Skye wants her babies to be. But...ultimately, safe and healthy babies are what we want and, personally, I feel fortunate that we have top-flight NICU care available to make sure our boys make it into the world safely. I feel quite confident that everything is going to work out.

On a slightly different note, despite having made a good bit of progress in our preparations over the last few weeks, we're totally not ready to bring the boys back to our house. We do have car seats - so we can at least get them home. But we may have to make a bed for them in the bathtub and swaddle them in old t-shirts. I find the whole thing kind of amusing because, obviously, we'll work it out. We tried to get ahead of the game with our preparation, but no matter how prepared you try to be, this baby stuff is just unpredictable!

Anyhow, we'll try to keep people posted on the blog. I ain't gonna be doing any Twitter-style updates every other minute, but when there is something news-worthy, I'll try to let you know. Skye may post some smaller micro-updates on Facebook, if you're of that ilk.

Thanks for checking in and thinking of us...