Test Run

Since my Mommy and Daddy are new at this whole "baby thing," I decided this past weekend to test them out and make sure they know what they are doing. Since it's vital that I am born at Duke, I wanted to be sure they could get me there. Mommy started having contractions on Saturday and she FINALLY went to the Doctor on Monday. He immediately told her to pack her bags and go to Duke where my Doctors are. You should have seen them trying to pack--what a circus! Her contractions were between 1-3 minutes apart and Duke admitted her to the OB Triage as soon as we got there. She's only 31 weeks along, so it's certainly not time for my birthday just yet. The Docs tried all kinds of things to get the contractions to stop and she was admitted to a room around 3am Mon night/Tues morning. They were finally able to find a medication to stop the contractions (Mom calls it the Magic Yellow Pill) and Mom was discharged from the hospital tonight. Mom's on bed rest now, so she's not too happy, but she says she'll do whatever it takes to keep me in here. I was told today that I'm in "time out" now for at least 5 weeks--whatever that is.

I had a fetal echocardiogram on Tuesday and Dr. B said my heart looks great. It's normal size and is pumping like it should. One less thing for Mom and Dad to worry about!

Mom and Dad got to see my handsome little face today on the 3D/4D ultrasound and I got into trouble because I kept running away from the sonographer. She was able to catch a few cute ones though--even one of me smiling. I weigh 3 lbs, 7 oz now, which isn't as much as the doctors would like, but I'll work on getting bigger.

Overall, I think I can trust them to get me to Duke so maybe I'll give Mom a break for a while.

Please keep us all in your thoughts and prayers. It's not quite time for me to make my grand appearance, so let's all hope I can hang out in here for a while.

Love, Carter


Here's me thinking "Oh boy! What a week!"

Here's mom and the fruit she had Dad find at the hospital (you know how she is about fruit!)

Here's dad working hard on his computer