End of Day 1: For the record

Pretty much just a little medical speak so I remember what I see

Set up

1. On my wife's belly, they have tied a cloth belt with button holes to hold sensitive microphones. These help us monitor our baby's heartbeat (they do it way faster than we do! Prolly double!)
2. These microphones, or some other sensor in the belt also monitors the little contractions in the uterus. They are at least right now, so tiny that even the lady herself doesn't feel it. 
3. There is another display that monitors her own heartbeat. 
4. Oh, and a lot of this data is being shown graphically - a constantly moving graph and it is also being printed constantly.
5. They also has her thumb in a little clip - I really don't know what that is for.

Medicine stuff

1. It is so crazy geeky - this whole thing that they now understand. They have set up two drips on my wife. One is to constantly feed her some saline water/ glucose water/ electrolyte - to keep her hydrated. They say it will be continued all through the time she is here.
2. Another thing they have started is a hormone drip - they are sending it into her body at such a feeble rate - like about a drop or so, per hour! 
3. They have some other arrangement that they are not using at the moment, and I am okay not knowing what it is. 

I can't believe they have studied the human body so well that they know that they can put in a drop of something per hour, and that will make the uterus get into labour. This is like chemical wizardry! Impressed! 

Well, Good luck to me, my lady, and the one about to arrive!