Another Update on the Soto Children

Ellison had her 4-year check-up today, and seems to be doing great. She weighs 32 1/2 lbs (25th percentile), and is 40 inches tall (50th percentile), which is on track with what she was at last year. Everything else seems to be checking out A-okay! We had a big discussion about our food issues, but I was basically told to keep doing what I'm doing... so keep getting frustrated and angry??? ;-)

As for our other little Soto, he/she is worrying his/her parents already. :-) Sunday night (AFTER Jonathan left for Colorado) was a bad night here. After losing power for 5 hours in the evening, having the weather alarm going off 4 times during the night with the little princess asleep next to me, I was having some SERIOUS low abdominal and back pains. Could not sleep well all night, had a death grip on the pillow when the pain became intense, the whole nine yards. I just kept praying over and over that it was digestive, but who knows what it was. Being the bad nurse patient that I am, I kept thinking I would just wait it out - time would tell me, right? It's not an easy decision when you have only neighbors to call on in the middle of the night. At any rate, by morning after I was able to walk around more, they went away. After speaking with my OB Monday, they told me to come in Tuesday to do a fetal fibronectin test. It appeared I hadn't dilated past the 1cm I was already at (thank you, Jesus!), so I kept thinking the FFN would be fine. Wrong. Wednesday we got news that it was positive, so my OB decided she wanted us to go ahead and do the steroid shots at the hospital to help develop the baby's lungs quicker. (Sigh). So our chances of having a baby sooner rather than later is apparently high. However, we COULD go to term, too. A positive test is less conclusive than a negative test, or so I'm told. Only God knows this baby's birthdate, and He loves him/her even more than we do. We're trying to hold on to that knowledge instead of freaking out. We just don't want our poor baby to struggle in its first days of life, we don't want it in the NICU, we want to bring it home with us, we want Ellison to be able to hold him/her in the hospital. But, time will tell. So our bags are packed, in the hopes of jinxing us into not needing them for a long while yet. :-) Thankfully, they haven't placed me on bedrest, I just have to continue decreased activity & staying off my feet as much as possible. So poor Jonathan is working my Target shopping list. I have to admit, it's hard giving up control of that! ;-)