The Wonders of a Good Night's Sleep
Hello to you all. Thank you for your prayers and support.
First, praise God that Rebecca got nearly eight hours of deep, relaxing sleep last night! It did wonders for her today; she is down-right vibrant!
Tomorrow we have two appointments (the standard Tuesday ones). The first is with the OBGYN (mom's health) and the other is the NST (baby's health). I suspect Rebecca's BP will be looked at again.
Rebecca had a massage today from a person who specializes in working with pregnant women. This helped work out a number of sore and tight spots in her muscles. Her joints have been loosening the last few weeks and her muscles are having to figure out how to meet with new and changing demands.
Xavier has been active and moving around. I've promised him a story and will read the account of David and Goliath to him.
I accepted a job offer today, a six month contract. This will bring some relief, though it means I will be less available to attend doctors visits. I will be making all the ultrasounds, however. I will be starting some time next week probably.
I was reminded today that I have not been consistent with posting Xavier's goals to this mail list. So to correct that, here are the goals we are praying for and encouraging Xavier to make:
We'd like to see Xavier put on about 12 ounces in the next week and a half to two weeks. He has been growing about 2 ounces a week, so that is a stretch goal. We do want him to grow faster than he is, at least double or 4 ounces a week.
We definitely want him to make it to week 36 in the womb, and we are shooting for mid June or later (making him 3 to 4 weeks early--of course, if he can make it full term that would be awesome!). Based on his physical growth measurements, he is in week 24. We'd like to see his end goal birth weight meet or beat six pounds.
From all we can tell, he is developing well. We got to see him suckling last Friday and this shows good development of his nervous system. His developmental growth seems to be ahead of his weight growth. He needs to keep up his development also.
- Pray for his growth to continue and to increase (and to start catching up).
- Pray for the health of his placenta so it can supply him the nutrients he needs to grow at the pace he needs.
- Pray for more oxygen getting through the placenta to him.
- Pray for Rebecca and her health to sustain Xavier to meet his goals.
- Pray for wisdom for us, and for Xavier's doctors, also that we see what we need to see.
Great is our God and awesome are His works from the foundations of the world!