Friday May 8th

Wild day at UCLA Medical Center but not for us. In a span of 6 hours, 9 different babies were born. It's weird to think that in the time we've been here, the room next to Hillary has already been occupied by 3 different moms whom have already come and gone.

The good news for Hillary is that nurses detached all her IV's again this morning and have limited her to just a few different oral medications. This time around her contractions have stayed in the safe range, roughly 2-6 an hour. And thanks in part to the chaos everywhere else, she was generally ignored all day, which was just fine by her.
The other highlight was that for the first time since early Monday morning, Hillary was allowed to get out of bed as we walked down the hall for yet another ultrasound. Ultrasound #4 produced what will undoubtedly be another very expensive photo of Luke (above). She also was able to use the ultrasound to measure Hill's cervix and saw that she was holding steady at around 3cm.

The doctor working the machine remains unable to tell exactly what (if anything) may be wrong with Luke. His stomach is clearly empty and small for his age, which would seem to confirm that he's not using it. She also felt like she may have been able to make out some thickening around his stomach to indicate a blockage of some sort but she reiterated that we ultimately would not know anything until he's born.

Still, that remains the only big concern at this point which is still a great blessing all things considered.