Keep a prayer in your heart

I'm sure she'll blog about it in further detail at some point (she's got time like warts on her hands, to borrow a phrase from Lorrie Moore), but I wanted to let my far-flung friends know right now so they can spare a prayer or two for her:

My sister's water broke this morning; she's not quite 27 weeks along yet, so that's not good, but on the plus side she's not having contractions and the baby doesn't appear stressed. No maternal complications like last time, either -- in fact (though it may be too early to say, and I certainly don't have any qualifications to say so!) it doesn't look like the FVL clotting disorder has anything to do with the problem. I guess her oven just doesn't like to cook those buns past the 6-month mark. :-(

Anyway. She'll be on in-hospital bedrest until the baby comes, which hopefully won't be before 34 weeks. Please keep her and the (as yet unnamed) baby boy in your prayers.


~RCH~