Today is our first wedding anniversary 
It’s scary how quickly the year has gone and difficult to believe that a year ago we were in Vegas. I’ve dug out our wedding video and put it somewhere we can find it so we can cringe at it in later years
We’re off out this evening to Cafe de China with our families to celebrate this and our birthdays (slightly belatedly ) which should be good fun and a good excuse to have some excellent food
We had our second baby scan today and everything is fine which is obviously good news We’ve another scan in a few weeks as they couldn’t get good enough imaging of the babies heart to check the chambers etc. and though they don’t think there is a problem they want to be sure. I’ve put up our scan images which you may or may not be able to make out
The first set is here and the second here. The pictures probably need a little explanation as it isn’t obvious what’s going on
The first picture is a side on view, babies head to the right and arm (or possibly leg??) up in front. Second is a top down view of the skull and the third is a view of the spine. Both of the second set pictures are from the side, babies head to the right.
Claire was discharged from hospital yesterday as she is much better than she was. She is taking tablets to control the sickness which will hopefully do the job and allow her to eat and drink fairly normally. She’s been signed off work for the rest of the week to allow her to recover some more and adjust to the tablets. It’s really nice to have her home again as the house was feeling kind of empty
Went to see Claire today in hospital, thankfully she is doing much better than she was yesterday. She’s been through 3 bags of saline so far to get her hydrated and was on the fourth whilst I was there. She has also been given injections to try and stop the sickness and heartburn, which seem to work fairly well though the sickness was starting to come back at the end of the visit.
As we thought, she has been diagnosed with Hyperemesis Gravidarum, which is basically extreme morning sickness. This can be pretty serious as it’s easy to get very dehydrated as you can’t keep fluids down.
The doctors seem to think Claire is likely to be in for two or three days whilst they monitor her condition and try and stabilise the sickness. She’ll probably them be prescribed some strong anti-sickness drugs before being released, which reading up on the condition seem to help most people have a fairly normal pregnancy. I’m back off to see her tomorrow so hopefully she’ll keep on improving and be allowed home soon.
It was quite interesting being in a hospital as I haven’t been near one for ages (thankfully!). I was quite interested to see what was happening with regard to infection control (MRSA always being in the news). When entering the department everyone is meant to use some antiseptic gel to clean their hands. I’ve yet to see a single person use this, including medical staff. Also you’d think general cleanliness would be important. Today Claire found a bedpan in her bedside cupboard full of some moldy and quite frankly scary looking gunk, probably left over from a previous patient. The lady next to her found a moldy sandwich in hers. I fail to see how hospitals are ever going to beat MRSA and other bugs if basic things like this are missed.
On the plus side the staff seem friendly and efficient, if very busy and Claire was checked on a few times whilst I was there. We’ll see how things go tomorrow
