Written by 2/9 1:00pm update: It’s been pushed back again. No news other than that.
2/9 12:30p update: Last word, the C-section was pushed to 11:30. We haven’t heard any news, other than that the procedure takes 1-2 hours. We plan to drive up to Sacramento this afternoon after Kristi gets home from work to see them.
Latest word on our coming new niece: there’s a C-section scheduled for 10:30 this morning.
A lot of the stress of this last week came about because Virginia’s heart surgery in Modesto happened to be scheduled for last Thursday – which was Janelle’s due date in Sacramento. So we all were somewhat concerned about the possibility of something going wrong here at the same time as the baby was being born a hundred miles away.
Thankfully it didn’t turn out that way. Kristi’s grandmother came through the valve replacement surgery without complication, and since then has been steadily improving. She feels like she’s been hit by a bus; for a while she thought we were hiding things from her when we assured her that she was doing well. But today’s she slated to finally be transferred out of ICU and into “step down” – sort of the transition from post-op ICU to the rehab unit. It’s going to be a long and difficult road to recovery, but she’s alive and getting better and once she’s recovered, Virginia’s going to feel better than she has in a long, long while.
Meanwhile, the baby went breech and so the last few days on that front have been about getting our new niece to flip back over. That’s going to be a stubborn, willful kid: despite warm baths and tummy-flashlight-shining and several days of patience, she’s still wrong side down. So today she’s going to be delivered c-section and brought out into the world.