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Hey everyone. First of all, this is Phillip. Think of me as Jenny's scribe. Anyway, a lot of you may already know what's going on, but a lot of you may not. Read on.

For the last several weeks, Jenny has been having some minor contractions. They pretty much stopped for a couple of weeks, but she started having them again on Friday morning. They started getting painful later in the day so she called her doctor, who advised her to come into the hospital and get checked out. We went out to Texas Woman's and found out that she had dilated to about 1.5 cm, which is really bad for a 20 week-old pregnancy. They gave her a series of shots to stop the contractions, which worked for a while. They started again this morning so they had to give her some different medicine. As of right now her contractions have eased up immensely, but it is still an extremely touchy situation. Jenny has been laying down with her head lower than her feet (to keep any unnecessary pressure off of her cervix) so she is uncomfortable to put it mildly.

Dr. Thompson, Jenny's primary care physician, talked to her today and told her that the situation is far from hopeless, but there is still much to be concerned about. For one, a "fetus" is not considered viable until at least 24 weeks. Even a child born at 24 weeks is subject to numerous complications including blindness and cerebal palsy. Every week that baby Evan can stay inside of Mom reduces his chances of premature-birth related health problems almost exponentially.

The main thing that we ask of you is prayer. I believe that God can and will intervene and I believe that He honors the prayers of His people. Beyond that, anything you can do to make Jenny feel at home in the hospital would be welcomed. She's got a long stay (hopefully), so cards, posters, whatever we can hang in her room to remind her that people are thinking about her and praying for her would be awesome. You can give anything like that to me and I'll get it to her. I'll be back and forth a lot, because Jenny wants Jackson's life to stay as normal as possible through this, and that means I'll be staying at home more than I feel like I probably should be.

In conclusion, Jenny won't be blogging for a while unless she decides to dictate something to her scribe, but tune in to my blog every once in a while for news and updates, as well as any other random nuggets that pop into my head. Thanks.