Baby Bally's First Car Accident :(

Good morning, all :)

Well, we started off the weekend great - Friday, Ian and I went to pick up our Lazy Boy chair, and see 'Wolverine' in the theaters - I love the XMen movies :) And then we reflected on how that was possibly our last time seeing a movie before our little baby is born! I really tried to enjoy it as much as I could :)

Saturday was wonderful for the most part - we worked in the yard (Ian planted and worked in the garden... I mostly watched) and then had a nice dinner outside and just were pretty much enjoying a slow, summer day - once again, very nice :)

Then... Saturday night was when we had our little adventure! I went with Ian to be with him while he took down the trailor from the ice cream event of that weekend - I was there for moral support, a little help, and then to give him a ride home :) Well, on our way out of the festival, I was following Ian out - he was in the ice cream truck, I was in my mini-van. He turned right onto 24 (kind of busy road), there was a car coming, so I decided to wait a bit... Well, I had inched up, decided to wait, and the car behind me thought I had went so he accelerated like he was going to go on to this 60 mph highway - except that I was still in front of him!

Well, I was pretty shaken up - the kid (he was 16/17 maybe) was VERY sorry - and I called Ian and let him know he had to turn around and come back... The end of the mini-van is pretty much totalled, so we're not sure what's going to happen there! And since I was wearing my seat belt, but had that jarring accident effect, I was so worried about the baby! It was the first time that as parents, we were both just reall worried about the baby! So, I called the doctor (at 11:45pm) and she basically told me that she was going to call Proctor (our hospital) and that I was to go and get fetal monitoring for about four hours.... I was fine with that, just ot make sure that the baby was okay! So we waited for the accident report (Ian went ahead because the ice cream was working on melting!) - the police woman issued a ticket to the other guy - I drove to pick Ian up in Eureka, then we headed to Proctor hospital.

I suppose it was good practice for if we go into labor in the middle of the night, because in order to get up to Lavor and Delivery, we had to go through the Emergency room - so that was one plus! Anyhow, we got all hooked up at about 1am - they were looking for contractions, fetal heart beat, and if my placenta was still attached... All turned out to be good. Babies heart rate was mostly around 130/135, except when he or she was busy moving around, then it would go up to about 150... Placenta we think is good, and I only had a few small contractions, that I really didn't even notice I was having!

Ian and I are really glad we went - just for peace of mind that our little baby is okay! He was a great husband and sat in a really uncomfortable chair for 4 hours - and then at 5am, they let us go home.... We left the hospital in daylight, and then got home and slept until about 11am - bed felt SO good!

So that was our Saturday adventure and the baby's first trip to the hospital - hopefully it is a RARE occurance!!!

Last day of week for me... and it's June 1st - baby could technicaly be born this month :) We'll see!!

Love
Laura