The Stones are back in Cairo! Jordan's dad is with us to help us move to our new place. It is his first international trip and we are thrilled to have him!! I still can't believe he is here. Cairo can be crazy, frustrating, and ridiculous, but with family here it becomes a little more manageable when your apartment doesn't have water during the day, your stove and dishwasher are broken, you can't eat out until the sun goes down(Ramadan), and every errand has about 2 hours of traffic built into it!
Luckily, we are using some of this craziness to our benefit. We are all still jet-lagged and we are staying up all hours of the night when the city is awake and the water is back on! At midnight we toured one of the hospitals called the American Hospital. Trust me when I say it looks nothing like America. It was cleaner than I expected and the Royal Suite was pretty spacious with enough room for Jordan and his parents and any other visitors to spend the night. I was already aware that I would need to provide everything like bed sheets, pillows, blankets, buckets, everything...so the emptiness of the room wasn't such a shock. We saw the Nursery NICU and saw babies who seemed to be surviving their Egyptian birth. They had incubators for babies in need, but they weren't being used. It was nice to see they had them just in case. The lady giving us the tour didn't speak English, but some how we managed to find out that they will do blood transfusions and they do both c-section and natural births. That was great to hear since 80% of doctors only do c-sections. We plan to tour El Nada hospital and Cleopatra hospital, but the American hospital is the closest to us.
Our house might be ready to move into by the end of this week or early next week!! I will take some pics and post them as soon as I can stand to be around the paint and bug spray fumes. There are so many bugs and they are HUGE! I will be at war with them for the first couple of months, but I will win!
Baby is doing great! I keep on getting sick and nauseous so that is a good sign! I still can't stomach raw vegetables very well which is crazy because I normally love them!! Our doctor in the states was really concerned with my diet and needs me to buckle down and get those veggies and protein in. I've just started showing a bit, so at least the baby is growing!! More milk and dark green veggies and the baby will be the world's healthiest unborn!
Luckily, we are using some of this craziness to our benefit. We are all still jet-lagged and we are staying up all hours of the night when the city is awake and the water is back on! At midnight we toured one of the hospitals called the American Hospital. Trust me when I say it looks nothing like America. It was cleaner than I expected and the Royal Suite was pretty spacious with enough room for Jordan and his parents and any other visitors to spend the night. I was already aware that I would need to provide everything like bed sheets, pillows, blankets, buckets, everything...so the emptiness of the room wasn't such a shock. We saw the Nursery NICU and saw babies who seemed to be surviving their Egyptian birth. They had incubators for babies in need, but they weren't being used. It was nice to see they had them just in case. The lady giving us the tour didn't speak English, but some how we managed to find out that they will do blood transfusions and they do both c-section and natural births. That was great to hear since 80% of doctors only do c-sections. We plan to tour El Nada hospital and Cleopatra hospital, but the American hospital is the closest to us.
Our house might be ready to move into by the end of this week or early next week!! I will take some pics and post them as soon as I can stand to be around the paint and bug spray fumes. There are so many bugs and they are HUGE! I will be at war with them for the first couple of months, but I will win!
Baby is doing great! I keep on getting sick and nauseous so that is a good sign! I still can't stomach raw vegetables very well which is crazy because I normally love them!! Our doctor in the states was really concerned with my diet and needs me to buckle down and get those veggies and protein in. I've just started showing a bit, so at least the baby is growing!! More milk and dark green veggies and the baby will be the world's healthiest unborn!
Nick on the camel
Nick's Egyptian Adventure!
Glad to hear you and the little Stone are well. Pay attention to nutrition! Glad you made it back safely. Your shower invites will go out this week! Love you K!
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