30 3/7

We had an uneventful night yesterday, with the exception making the mistake of watching the Celtics game. Chris and I got 2 exciting packages yesterday- we got our laptops mailed to us (yay!) and a care package from my sister, so that was a nice diversion.

I'm still struggling somewhat with the time zone change and incredible amount of sunlight, so my sleep is off. I woke up at 5 am Alaska time, but the nice thing was that I had about a million emails and facebook comments waiting for me, since most of you had been up for hours! I really do appreciate all the notes.

The covering ob came by, and it's still not clear as to whether I can leave the hospital tomorrow, possibly not until after the weekend. But I'm just trying to take it day by day. Sounds like when I do leave, I'll need to be on bed rest for several weeks. I know that there is very little evidence that bed rest actually changes outcomes, but when that's the advice I'm getting from my doctors, it's kind of hard to go against it, in case anything does go wrong.

Then the neonatologist stopped by to say hello. Apparently the NICU here is 48 beds with 7 NICU attendings, with one in house 24/7. So that was good to hear, although I'm still hoping that we can avoid using the NICU. Assuming I am able to go full term, I asked him when he thought it would be safe for me to fly home with a newborn. His feeling was that I could pretty much go home as soon as I wanted, which was nice to hear. I would like to hear from any other pediatricians out there reading this what their opinion is on this matter, as this not an issue I run into on a daily basis in Adolescent Medicine.

The best part of today was when Chris wheeled me over to the Hickel House which is for patients and familes from out of town. It seemed really nice, and might be a good option for a place to stay for the next few months to weeks, since it's looking pretty definite that I'm here until I deliver. The nice part was that I got to go outside for about 20 seconds, and it was sunny and warm! And the walk there was quite beautiful- he pushed me through the hospital's sky bridge, and I had a gorgeous view of the mountains. So it was nice to at least have that temporary change of scenery.

Also, Chris bought a connector cable for my camera to my computer (didn't bother to bring it with me to Alaska), so if you're really lucky, maybe I'll even upload the 3 pictures I took before getting hospitalized, and perhaps a nice shot of my hospital room as well. :-)