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Fall Updates

Happy Fall! This is my favorite time of the year. We haven't updated you all in a while, but as you read this I'm sure you'll soon understand why. In August, Alan and I took 2 weeks off from teaching classes since most of Italy goes on holiday for the entire month of August. Most of our students had cancelled for that month, and we decided to take advantage of the much needed break. However, the last day we taught classes before the break, I fell at the beach (where we would go for a quick morning swim for some exercise each morning). I landed on some rocks as it was the beach with large lava rocks, and hit my 32 week prego belly directly on it. I started having some pain later that day, and it continued into the next day so my doctor had me go to the hospital to just get a check-up. Turns out while I was there that I started going into preterm labor. I spent 10 days in the hospital on different iv medications to try to stop the labor. After I had maxed out on the thera