Having a hard time

[DRASTiK]

Saturday morning my wife who is 7 months pregnant went in to see the doc because she was having some pain. They said she was in pre-term labor and admitted her to the hospital. Then they put her in an ambulance and sent her to another hospital about 40 miles away in San Diego. She was having contractions and they were trying to stop the labor by giving her Magnesium through an I. V. That's when things got worse.
From the Magnesium, she developed an irregular heart rate. Aside from being irregular, it was also a very fast heart rate. It would jump from 130 to 180 in a second. This is bad for her and the baby. The baby only weighs about 3 pounds right now and to have her deliver would mean that the baby would be hospitalized for quite a while and many complications could occur.
They tried multiple medications to try and fix her heartbeat, but nothing was working. The only option they had left that was safe for the unborn baby was to shock my wife's heart with electricity to try and get it to zap back to it's normal self. They told us about all the things that could go wrong and they were prepared to do an emergency C-section if it was necessary. They took her to the Operating Room for the shock procedure and the thirty two minutes she was in there was the longest thirty two minutes of my entire life.
Thankfully her heart came back to it's normal self on the first try and is still functioning properly as of now. She will be in the hospital until she delivers the baby which could be as long as five more weeks. The docs say that if she hasn't delivered by then they will probably induce labor.
This is still very difficult because we have three more children at home and they don't understand what's going on. At the same time, I'm making that 40 mile trip in SD traffic about four times a day, and sleeping very little at night. We have a friend that's helping out with the kids so I can be with my wife more often, but it's draining us all down real fast. I'm in the military so it's not like our families are close by to come visit. My family is on the east coast, and most of hers is in Indiana. Her mother lives in AZ, so she was able to come and she and I are staying with Robin (my wife) at the hospital. Now they are saying that my wife's blood tests are showing that she's anemic (sp?), and the cause of that may be from internal bleeding. I hope and pray that's not the cause of it.
We would appreciate any thoughts and prayers you could give to my wife, our kids, our unborn and myself. I'll be checking this thread when I come home to pick up the kids to take them to see their mother. That way I can print out the kind words of the Mustangworkers, and show them to her to lift her spirits a little. I know I can count on you guys and gals, because I've seen you come to the aid of many people on this board many times. That's one of the reason's it's the best one on the internet.

Thanks for reading this, and I'll update the thread when I get a chance.

Dave