DIL Amanda Is In The Hospital

My son called this evening and his pregnant wife, Amanda, is in the hospital down in Alabama where they live. She started feeling sick on Monday, like she was coming down with a cold. She hasn't felt well all week. This morning she started not being able to keep anything down and she hadn't felt baby Riley move since 9:00 this morning. Nathan left work early to take her to the doctor. He sent her on to be admitted to the hospital. They started an IV and have monitors on her to keep tabs on Riley. Thankfully Riley is checking out good on the monitors. They said they think Amanda has a virus but they don't think it's swine flu. That darned son of mine said she hadn't started developing a snout! She was apparently feeling better already because she was hungry and they were going to let her try eating a graham cracker. They plan to keep her overnight and see how she is in the morning. If she's doing well she'll probably go home, if not they'll keep her another day. Amanda's 6 year old daughter Hannah is staying with Amanda's sister.

EDIT: I just got a text message from Amanda. She must have been doing better than expected because they've let her go home rather than keeping her overnight. She can't go back to work until the middle of next week and she's supposed to drink lots of fluids. I'm relieved! :-)