The Evendens

Today I had my weekly appointment and the doctor ended up sending me over to the hospital for some testing.  To make a long story short, I'm dilated only to 1 or 2, but they have been concerned about my blood pressure the last few weeks.  All the sudden it's gotten pretty high and I'm starting to swell up like a balloon.  I have yet to gain any weight this pregnancy, and have actually lost some weight but in the last 3 days I've put on 5lbs which he says is all water weight.  This has him concerned about preeclampsia.  So, I thought I was just going for a simple blood test, however I was admitted to the hospital for almost 4 hours.  I was brought to labor and deliver and they monitored both me and the baby, ran some blood work, and monitored my blood pressure.  The doctor came in to see me at the end of it all, and said that everything came back ok, but that he was still concerned.  He told me that I need to take it easy (modified bed rest) for the next week and that as he put it "Your mama might get to meet this baby yet."  This is because my mom just got here and I was explaining to him how badly she wants the baby to be born while she's here.  He wants to see me next Monday and then talk about inducing possibly next week.  He's theory is that he'd rather induce before we have a problem rather than wait until we have a problem.  So that's where we stand with things, it's all happening so fast now!  But my mom is here and my dad will be here Christmas day.  It really would be great if Jackson made an appearance while there were here!