22 Weeks

Happy Thanksgiving!

We had an appt yesterday with our reg OB. Everything is going smoothly again. We have been put on some medication to ward off the contractions and it seems to be working very well. We, also, have some stronger medication in case I have break through contractions, so hopefully we will not have anymore trips to L&D. We are only 8 days away from hitting our 24 week milestone, and I am very anxious to get there. Every week makes such a huge difference at this point. I am so grateful to have made it this far without too many scares.

21 Weeks

The trouble has begun!

So we had our first real scare last night, but everything is ok now. Brian was working over time yesterday so I was home by myself and started having contractions around 4pm. He called at 5pm to say he would be home soon but I was starting to get scared because they weren't stopping, so when he got home we called the Dr & they sent us into Labor & Delivery. By the time we got there (around 6pm) I was having contractions every 1-3 minutes. I didn't realize that I was having so many because they aren't painful. So they hooked me all up to the monitors & gave me an IV and terbutaline and the contractions stopped pretty quickly. That drug is nasty though and made me all crazy shaky. We got discharged around 9pm, so it was all over pretty quick.

I had an appt with my peri this morning & everything looks good, but I am having contractions today too. I had one while they were measuring my cervix and it went down to 3.1cm, and then back up to 4cm after it stopped. All of this is normal with a triplet pregnancy- I just have to make sure that I go into L&D if I have steady contractions so they can stop them before they become a problem.

They might give me a preventative drug to take at home if I have more of these episodes. That would be nice, since its kind of a hassle to go to the hospital. Other than that everything looks totally fine. The babies are all doing very well and starting to gain more weight. Our boy is the biggest & he is over a pound now. Yeah!!!

Sorry no new pics this week- we were focused on other issues at the ultrasound.

20 Weeks

Its getting cramped in there!

We saw our perinatologist yesterday, and the appt went pretty good, but not as good as we would have liked. Baby Boy A has a couple of small cysts in his brain. They are choroid plexus cysts. Apparently they are pretty common and usually will disappear on their own in the next month or so, but in about 1% of babies with this condition it is an indicator of Trisomy 18. Our boy has no other Trisomy 18 indicators (like heart defects or slow development) but it still hard for me to hear "Trisomy 18" come out of my Dr's mouth. My doc ordered me to stay off google- so I don't freak myself out. I'm trying not to worry about it, after all, there is a 99% chance that everything will be ok.

Its getting harder to get good pictures because the babies are getting kind of cramped in there. Baby A is too far down in my pelvis to be very photogenic, so we just have pictures of the girls.

All the babies are growing steadily. Boy A is about 14oz, Girl B - 13oz, and Girl C- 12 oz. My cervix had shortened about 1/2 cm, so we've officially been put on pelvic rest. Our Dr said that we will definitely be on bed rest at some point, maybe in the not too far off future.

I have seemed to really hit a wall in the last couple of days. Just going to my appt yesterday totally wore me out. I'm going to limit my time on my feet from now on, and see if this helps.

19 Weeks

Baby Girl C's Feet

Misbehaving!

We had another appointment yesterday with our reg OB. They gave me cookies while I waited for a room- I love them! 2 weeks ago my uterus measured at 25 weeks and yesterday it was 32 weeks!!! That's quite the growth spurt. They, also, snuck us in for another ultra sound to double check the genders for us. We have confirmation - 2 girls and a boy. The babies were all so active. Baby Boy A was kicking his sisters a bunch trying to get more room, and playing with his penis. He's definitely a boy. Baby Girl B was fighting back & we actually saw her peeing. It was crazy! I didn't think you would be able to see it that way. It was so funny!! Now we know her kidneys work- yeah! Baby Girl C is our most active baby. She is always kicking me or one of her siblings. Her heartbeat is always slightly higher- probably from all the aerobics she is doing! The best thing was we caught it all on DVD. Masturbating and peeing in the womb- it's going to be great blackmail!

This morning I woke up really early & think I was having contractions. I'm not really sure though. They told me that would happen & as long as I don't have more than 4 an hour- not to worry. I only had 2, so I went back to sleep, but today my left hip is killing me!! It feels like Baby Girl B is trying to push my leg out of its socket. I can barely walk. I'm just hoping it gets better by tomorrow since we have the Fireman's Ball to go to. I don't want to be hobbling around like a cripple.