My pregnant wife

[Termite]

We are all there with you and Kylie. My SWMBO asks me every day for the latest news.

[Wood Butcher]

Waldo,
It is great to here that things are going well at the moment. I hope the good news keeps up!!!!

[Wood Borer]

Chris,

Great news mate.

You know where the driveway is, you use it as necessary. Having a beer in the shed is secondary at this time.

[Sturdee]

One of the consequences of being a diabetic and pregnant is the build up of fluid, which is th case of the normal person is in the range of 5 -25 with the average being 15, Kylie was 45. So yesterday she had a needle to drain a lot of the fluid, all 2.5 litres of it! She is now 29 on the scale.

I know what you mean, with us it wasn't so bad, but as I said she still was about 8 weeks in hospital before the birth.

A great highlight of her stay was that one weekend about 3 weeks before the birth I was allowed to take her out for the day as long as she was back by night time. That was a welcome break from the hospital routine.

It doesn't look like you'll get that break but every week she is in there is better for all of you.

Take care.


Peter.

[TEEJAY]

Waldo thanks for the update - with you all the way brudda

[Clinton1]

Good to hear the latest news mate... seems that you are staying positive, it must be difficult for you as well.

Kylie obviously has the worst of the situation, with being confined, worried and with the health problems, I guess she is trying to maintain her patience and "wait for the rollercoaster to stop".
For you, being fit and healthy and limited in what you can do for your wife... - I guess it must be frustrating. I guess I'm saying "look after yourself as well".

My wife would like you and Kylie to know that she is thinking of you both and we are both in "Kylie's cheer squad".

[aussiecolector]

1. Has a lot of discomfort in her ribs etc., a friend brought around yesterday a bit of bumpy foam (like gun case foam, apologies for my ignorance of what it's called) the size of a mattress which is really working for her as far as being a bit more comfortable goes.

Thats what my wife is sleeping on.

[Waldo]

G'day,

Time I guess for an update as some are keen for some new news.

On Friday night they hooked Kylie up to a strap thing that goes around her tummy to meausre bub's heart beat, contractins etc.

Bub had a real high heaartbeat of 185 b/minute and due to the high nature of it ran some blood tests to see if there was any infection and also rather than the test just being for the usual 20 minutes they had her connected for 2 hours. In which time it sounded like a freight train roaring through the joint! Her specialst came in urgently the same night to get a scan of Bub to see if anything could be determined. And within 2 minutes against the usual 6 or minuted was able to establish that Bub is in great health and very strong - trying to breath, thrashing about with arms, fists, knees etc.

Basically they're stumped. The blood tests that were taken earlier came back negative. Kylie had very little sleep that night as they ran two more sets of the same tests through the night. Over Friday night Kylie had some very strong contactions measuring 85 on the ricter scale thingy.

They did the same test later on Saturday morning and Bub had settled back to 165 b/minute (should be around 120 or so) and the contarctions had settled big time.

Kylie makes 28 weeks this week which continues to amaze the speacialists as they expect her to have already to had Bub say G'day to the world. But once she gets to 30 weeks it'll be a different story and at that time they'll all have a big pow-wow and work out the best time to bring Bub into the world as they don't want her going too much past 30 weeks.

[scooter]

Good to get the update, Chris, sounds like you're all in safe hands, full on nonetheless.

Did you happen to mention "woodwork", "Lie Nielson", "next years WW show" or somesuch before bub's heartrate went ape####? Sounds like a future "woodie" in there mate ! Or a future SWMBO !

Hang in there, best of luck to you, Kylie & bub.


Regards....................Sean

[savage]

Thanks for the update, I still follow this with great interest and fingers and toes crossed, hang in there you are both doing fine by the sounds of it.
savage(Eric)

[2817741]

G'day Waldo set,

Great News mate, another day done......keep it up!

My wife today said that if I didn't hurry up and post our well wishes, I would never again get close enough to her to try and have kids!

So from the A.C.T: Chris, Kylie and Little one, we offer our thoughts and prayers, and hope all the good thoughts help!

Personally, after following the thread since the begginning I am amazed at the commpassion, community spirit and offers of support. I think it is fantastic and an example to other walks in life of what the human spirit should be like! Well done all you woody boys!

Hang in there mate,

Greg

P.S AussieCollector, hope all is going well for you too!

[Waldo]

G'day Scooter,

No but I did tell Kylie that I spent $70 at a garage sale on dark side stuff. (I'll post with some pics my treasure haul, could've spend a stack load more but you know how it goes )

2817741, thanks for the post, I'll print todays well wishes off for Kylie to read as they really do help.

Yeah Savage, things are looking better all the time, had 3 phone calls tonight and thought any one of them could've been the phone call. When you don't get many calls at night you kind of jump when the phone rings.

(Aussiecollector - did I read right I think last night that your wife lost her Mum? I saw the topic somewhere but Explorer crashed and I couldn't find the thread to go back to it. My deepest sympathies go to you and your wife and all those who share the sad loss. Apologies if I read wrongly.)

[mudguts]

Everyone.

I'm very new to this forum but do love it and everyone is very helpful. I only stumbled on this thread 30 or so minutes ago and after reading back through three weeks of posts I'm absoloutly astounded by the great deal of care and support everyone is showing (god i hope i'm not getting too mushy). What a wonderful site this is.

Waldo.

I too wish you and Kylie all the best, although i think everything will be fine. I bet she gets alot of enjoyment out of reading all these well wishes. Keep it up mate, soounds like you're doing a marvellous job. Tell Kylie to keep it up too. Won't be long and the family will be back where they belong and you'll have an amazing story to tell bubs when he/she grows up.
best wishes
Daniel

[Harry72]

Kylie must be under some stress with all this, 28 weeks is cruising my sister had a son at 27 weeks and he's 4 now and quite fine(a real handfull too).
How you handling it I reckon you would be a bit uptight with seeing your bride hooked up the all the machines and tests, taken her some flowers lately?

Best of luck guys hope all's going well.

[Trav]

Waldo

Hope all goes well for you and yours. Best wishes from another expectant father! (just hit 33 weeks)

Trav