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It has been a great day for Parker (and Adrienne). Parker was taken off of the CPAP machine this morning. He is breathing on his own and doing well. He is eating (through a tube) and keeping it down. Tomorrow his pediatrician will take over his care from the neonatologist. I went up and spent some time with him this evening. He looks a lot like Cameron. He has spikey hair and lots of it. We finally have a length for him: 19 inches. If he went to term, he would have been out biggest baby. We are hoping that he will be home by the end of the week. I have updated the pictures on the gallery with ones I took this evening of him.

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Adrienne is also doing well. She got two more units of blood, but they took the IV out (of her right arm) after they finished. She is still getting liquids by IV (in her left arm). I took the kids up to see her today. They were all happy to see her and I know she loved the company. The doctor has put her on more pain medication. It is painful for her to move around. The doctor said that it could be months before she is fully recovered. He also indicated that if she continues her upward trend, the earliest she could be home would be Wednesday. It will be nice to have her home.

Around Noon today (Sunday, Dec 2) I took Adrienne (34 almost 35 weeks pregnant) to the hospital with abdominal pain.

At about 1:35 pm she gave birth to Parker Forrest. We know that he is 6 lbs., but not his length yet.

First Mom: Adrienne’s uterus ruptured and her placenta and the baby had moved into her abdomen. Five minutes longer and I would be writing this as a single father of five. She lost about half of her blood volume. She is on her second transfusion and probably will need a couple more. She is in shock, and they are treating her accordingly, but is stabilizing.

Now Baby: The Doctor’s are saying that we should name the baby Lucky, because he really is lucky (read miracle) that he is with us. He is not out of the woods either. He will probably need a transfusion as well. He lost blood when he involuntarily moved from the uterus to the abdomen. He is being moved from the hospital where he was born to one where they can have him on a ventilator. We are not sure how long he will be there, but he will be there for at least a few days.

Me: It is starting to catch up to me. I am working with people to get some stability for the rest of the kids and for me. As things progress I will update you all. At some point I will get some decent pictures to put up for everyone to see.

Update: Parker Forrest Photo Gallery

Mom is doing well. Drowsy and sore, but her bleeding is down to what is to be expected.  Parker is at his new hospital.  He is breathing without a respirator.  He is doing quite well.  I am hoping they will both be home soon.

We are back at the Hospital. Lots of cramping, pressure and a bit of spotting. She is still at 3cm and about 60% effaced. They will monitor of an hour and check again.

UPDATE:  We are back home.  No changes during the hour she was being monitored.  We have to go back tomorrow for her to be monitored for an hour or so again.

Adrienne is back home again.  She didn’t have any contractions while being monitored.  The doctor has extended her bed rest for another two weeks.

The steroid shot she gets always makes her jittery, so it is difficult for her to sleep which invariable makes her cranky. Today should be fun…..

I am in the hospital with Adrienne right now.  She went in for her weekly check-up (Yes…weekly) and now we are here.  She is 3cm dilated and 60% effaced.  She was having contractions this morning, which turned into cramps.  So we are here for another steroid shot and monitoring.  If she has contractions again (she is not right now), he will want to keep her here for two more days.

She will be 34 weeks tomorrow.  If this was tomorrow the doctor would not be trying to stop her labor.  But we are still 33 weeks.  So we are here waiting.

Adrienne, as some may know, is pregnant. In fact we are a few weeks away from the end of bed rest. (YEAH!) This is our sixth child, fifth boy and the last for us. Adrienne over the past several years has insisted that the chances of having a girl have increased as we had more boys. And yes our fourth, Olivia, is a sweet devilish girl. But numbers five and six are both boys, unless Parker decides to pop out sans equipment. I must point out, while it would have been nice to have another girl, another boy suits us just fine. We love spoiling Olivia, and a household of rambunctious boys is just hours of fun!

Louis Navellier explains in his book The Little Book That Makes You Rich: A Proven Market-Beating Formula for Growth Investing the logical dilemma I faced everyday as Adrienne tried to explain to me that the chances of having a girl increased with each boy we had:

One of the most common emotional mistakes is the “gambler’s fallacy.” That is a tendency to think that when a tossed coin lands on heads five times in a row it is much more likely to land on tails the next time. This supposition is incorrect. The odds of flipping tails on the sixth try are exactly what they were the first five: 50-50. Each flip occurs independently of the others.

I now have a name for what dumbfounded me for years. Silly woman….I love you still.