Subject: 09/17/02 Update from Kraig and Loren

Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 23:14:08 -0400

From: Kraig Warnemuende <ad6075@wayne.edu>

Dear friends and family,

Well, we're still here, and it looks like at this point we're just waiting for "Miss Baggins" to make her grand entrance. It's very comforting to know that she can be born at any time now and be considered full term.

We went in to the doctor's today for another round of treatments and non-stress tests (NST). We've gotten to know the baby's heartbeat quite well--amazing that after my being hooked up to a fetal-heartbeat monitor for a good hour or so every few days Kraig and I haven't gone bonkers with the constant sound. It's actually become a very reassuring measure. Anyway, all was fine with that, and afterward we had another ultrasound to follow up the one we had two weeks ago. The results: Baggins is still small, but still growing, and her growth rate is following the right type of curve. Our doctor also was able to get a doppler reading from the blood flow in the baby's umbilical cord and that also still looks just as it should.

So what's the verdict? At the moment, we can continue as we have been with treatments, NSTs and ultrasounds. Our doctor sees no need for more invasive or drastic measures. He said that the frequent NSTs give him the best measure of how Baggins is doing. So....we may actually go to our due date (September 27) unless Baggins gets other ideas (which wouldn't be a terrible thing :) ). The longest we would go, our doctor said, is one week after the due date (forty-one weeks).

Anyway, that's the update! Once again, your prayers have been a wonderful encouragement to us. I know the reason we're as calm as we are (and have been) is because God is using you. Hope you aren't worrying in our place! It's nice to have the extra time to get things organized more around here!

We'll keep you posted.

Love, Loren (for Kraig and Baggins as well)