If you ever walk into the hospital to meet your 31 week pregnant wife in Labor and Delivery triage, the last thing you want to hear from a nurse is "Well, looks like you're going to be admitted". Within a few hours "admitted" meant my wife was diagnosed with preeclampsia and would be kept in the hospital until June 24th or she gave birth, whichever came first. If she made it to the 24th, her prize would be having two small humans ripped from her loins. Turns out preeclampsia is no joke. What came next was even less funny.
So for those of you who aren't familiar with preeclampsia, you really should Google it. In fact if you want to convince your teenage daughter to do everything in her power to not get pregnant, i'd even recommend reading her the WebMD article as a bedtime story. If she still seems interested in that untrustworthy boyfriend of hers, go ahead and read the article on HELLP syndrome. I guarantee she won't have unprotected sex until she's at least 34 years old.
Froedtert Birth Center would be home for the next 3 weeks if all went well. My wife was greeted by some awesome nurses armed with needles. Blood draw, Check. Shot of steroids in the ass, Check. IV bag full of magnesium, Check.
Magnesium, you ask? Yep, this is apparently the first line of defense to prevent seizures when you have preeclampsia. I'm told it works really well. I'm also told it is awful. Like, something you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy awful. Who told me this? My wife. You see she used to be a Labor and Delivery nurse and had administered this highly effective hellbroth many times in the past. This was clearly going to be a penance of sorts.
Within a few minutes, Awesome Nurse #1 had hooked up the IV bag of Mag (that's the cool hospital lingo for Magnesium). She said "don't worry, we recently lowered the initial loading dose, it probably won't be as bad as you remember"... and it turns out it wasn't. My wife went through that first hour like a champ, she looked good, the babies looked good. Life was good. Only 47 more hours of Mag to go! Maybe this wouldn't be so bad?
To be continued...
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