January 18, 2008 – Hospital admission

Dear Friends and Family,

I have set up this blog to provide you the latest news regarding our family.   As many of you are already aware, Jenn-Jen and I were excited to be blessed with news that we would become the parents of twin girls.  With an expected due date of May 12, 2008, we had many plans an aspirations for the new additions to our family.  Our son, Adam, was also very excited to learn that he would become a big brother.

Our excitement soon turned into  fear, as Jenn-Jen was admitted to Sutter Memorial Hospital (http://babies.sutterhealth.org/delivering/delivery_smcs.html) on Monday, January 18, 2008 for pre-term labor.  She was experiencing strong contractions about every seven minutes and triage immediately set her up in the high-risk pregnancy wing.  The maternal-fetal doctors put Jenn-Jen on strict 24/7 bed rest and the initial prognosis was that she would be hospitalized for the remainder of her pregnancy.  We remained hopeful at the time, even after initial ultrasound results were inconclusive about a potential rupture of the amniotic sac of one of the twins.  Many of the nurses were cheering us on with success stories of mothers coming in and remaining in the hospital while their babies continued to grow in the womb to a healthy gestational age.  I left my wife in with faith in good hands of Sutter Memorial, an institution well known for its neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), but prayed that the twins would stay in the womb to full-term and never need to visit that unit we became so familiar with five years ago when Adam was born eight weeks premature.