Technology

As surprising as it seems, I'm not a big believer that technology is always a good thing. I would agree that the technology around monitoring and observing our babies has been quite beneficial in determining what next steps to take. I.e., Jack and Ella might not be alive if it weren't for a timely ultrasound. However, it will never replace the human factor that is involved in many situations. For example, tonight, Kristy had a pretty scary evening where it appeared that she might be going into pre-term labor. She had 5 contractions within an hour and the second hour didn't seem to be much better. All we could do was look at the machine and wonder what was going on... Kristy only felt one of them, but the device said that one, two, three... were occurring.

Fortunately, Debbie stopped by during the second hour and as usual had a very calming effect on the both of us. We took the TOCO off, had some dinner and watched a movie (Ratatouille, quite good, btw). After a couple hours break from the TOCO, Kristy put it back on at 9PM.

Amazingly, the hour or so from 9PM on measured nothing. It was flat as a board. Kristy feels fine, is currently sleeping, and we can check another day off, thanks to our non-technical intervention.