Hi there! Yes bizzy bizzy at the moment. We are decorating princesses room, preparing little prince his room and driving up to hospital several times a day. As I may have told before, I need sewing and quilting to get my thoughts straight and the last couple of evenings - after returning home from hospital - I have been sewing to get my thoughts straight again. I have been finishing the scrappy stars all over blocks, now I want to make heartblocks to go with the star blocks… I also made some oven-mittens but I think I did something wrong; they fit me perfect but… hubby has bigger hands and he complains that the new mittens are to small for his hands! I have run out of insul-bright and since I bought it at a quilt-market I don’t know were to buy the stuff in the Netherlands. But he liked the idea of these mittens and asked me to make some for him too!
Over here in the Netherlands we have a radiostation called radio 2 and they are airing the top-2000 ever at the moment. It is a anual event and it means that we have the radio on every waking moment of the day, even now that I am typing this I am listening to it on-line! ( click on the link and get a streaming live webcam with the music! ) Lots of oldies and great Dutch songs too, oh how I love to sing along as loud as I can, lololol.
Hugs to all for now
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We put up the Christmastree Saturday morning, wanting to have everything normal for my girl and I promised Lars we would put in a lot of little lights. My princess has made a painted Christmastree for Lars and the nurses in hospital, keeping the fingers crossed they will like it!
Under the Christmastree is my (ugly but very well loved ) Christmasstable. It was a gift from my grandma to my parents when they got married in November 1968. All the figures are made off plastic and well worn, the stable is made of pressed wood and soooooo ugly but the fact that it was a wedding gift to my parents and that my mom had it under her tree for years and years, makes it so special for me.
My dad died by a car accident in 1972, I was born 6 months later in November. My mom died of cancer in 2007 and gave the stable to me a couple of years before. See? it is really something special to me.
I told my girl the story of Christmas and why we celebrate it and she loved the story and my 40 year old ugly Christmas stable….
to her the figurines came to life when I told her the story….
too all of you; Merry Christmas and a happy and healthy 2009
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Yep, do I have news for you!
My son is doing great at the moment! he is off the breathing-tube AND the cpap ( little tube under his nose to encourage breathing ) so this means he is breathing on his own now! He also lost his infuus ( a needle in his vain to give him anti-biotic ) He is getting better and better at keeping up his own temperature and he is up to 12 x 20ml food per day now and he weights 1518 grams … all in all it looks very promising!
Keep those prayers coming, they are working!
I will try to take some pictures tomorrow to share with you, for now I want to share a picture with you that I made a couple of days ago, so there will be still lots of tubes and infuus-thingies on him…
Hi all of you who have stayed, trying to find new blogs from me over the past week…
As some of you know, I am carrying a child. However, that is no longer the case, but let me begin at the beginning..
Last may , my husband and I got pregnant and my due date was Feb. 1st 2009. My belly kept growing and growing… than, almost 2 weeks ago my Father in law died of cancer. The following Wednesday I had an appointment with my obstetric and she had my blood-pressure 160/110 …meaning it was waaaaaay to high. She send me to hospital to have an checkup.
So up we went, to Beverwijk to the red cross hospital. The obstetric there measured my blood-pressure and told me I needed to stay for the night because it was way waaaaaaaaaaaay to high…. next morning my gyn told me he was going to try to get my pregnancy at least to 34 weeks… huh? 34? yeah, 34 because it wasn’t going to happen that I could carry this child the full 40 weeks. I still don’t know where it went wrong, but Thursday I blew up like a water Mellon and my blood-pressure kept on rising and rising….
High blood-pressure and being pregnant doesn’t go together that well and my Gyn told me he was going to send me to the Vu-hospital in Amsterdam because they have a neo-natal unit for preemies younger than 32 weeks of pregnancy. All I could say was: I don’t want this to be happening! But off i went, into the ambulance to Amsterdam. There I got into a room with again a different gyn and more different people wanting to know all about me and what I was feeling and how much pain I was in… It was awful, all I could think off whas that I wanted this baby to survive. They again kept on measuring my blood-pressure and low and behold…. there even was a peak of 215 over 140… way way waaaaaaaaaaaaaay to high!
So, off I went into theatre and gave birth to my beautiful little baby who was only 40 cm tall and only 1430 grams in weight. I didn’t even get to see him, he was rushed to the neonatal unit and put in to a glass box with tubes and all put in his little arms and body.
Thinking of it makes my heart hurt for him. He still is in neonatal unit in Amsterdam, I am home at the moment.
So, this is the news of today:
On the 5Th day of December, at 4.15 in the morning, I gave birth to a beautiful little boy :
Lars, Wilhelmus, Bernardus, Nikolaas
40 cm in length, 1430 grams in weight
I want to ask you to include him in your list of people for whom you pray, or just light a candle for him next time you go to church. All the positive prayers and hope is welcome so he can come home as soon as possible.
Thank you all
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*ps just a couple of minutes ago, I was informed that the situation with my little boy has improved so much that he is off the tube and breathing on his own ( as far as possible and with a little help of a cpap ) As I am typing this, Lars is on his way back to the neo-natal care unit in Beverwijk redcross hospital. I am going to visit him tonight and will update you on his condition and maybe try to share some pictures.
Keep those prayers comming! they are realy doing their work!!!! thanks!
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