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I have now been in the hospital for over two weeks, and God continues to show me how He has had is hand upon this whole situation.

My blood pressure seems to be somewhat under control now thanks to the medicine that they are able to give me. Isaac everytime they monitor him the word is he's perfect.

Due to the fact that the only way my blood pressure seems to be under control with the blood preasure medicine that they are giving me, which at this time is the max amount. Also the level of protien my body is putting out makes me severe preeclampsia. Therefore for the safety of both me and Isaac they will deliver me at 34 weeks. For me that is this Saturday. I am scheduled as of today to have a c-section on Monday, May 9. So the goal is for there to be no spikes in my blood pressure that would cause IV drugs between now and than.

At first they were telling me I would have a baby in the NICU...but upon talking to one of the head people in the NICU they think that Isaac might not have to go there at all. He has to meet certain critria so our prayer is that:
1. He weighs at least 4.8 pounds....which they believe he will with no problem because on Monday, April 18 when they did a sonagram he measured at 4 pounda
2. He needs to be able to breath totally on his own with no assitance....which also looks good due to the fact that I got the two steriod shots that help develop his lungs among other things and evidently because of the high blood preasure Isaac has been preparing to come out early...someone said it is God's way of preparing the babies for early birth
3. He needs to want to eat...so I said we will pray that Isaac has his father's appetaite than....at least for the first couple of months

I have been amazingly at peace with this whole thing....even with all of the things that I wanted to have done before Isaac was born....it all seems so unimportant

It is like God has taken over and given me a peace that can be explained no other way than a miricle from God...He has put everything in place up until now so why doubt and question it at this point.

I am looking forward to this time next week holding and feedin our son Isaac Amos Russell and introducing him to many family and friends over the next couple of weeks.

I am also looking forward to seeing a vision that I have had for years now come to be...which I did not see how it could in my mind...but in God's plan it is perfect timeing.