18 week update

I had a doctor's appointment yesterday and everything looks good. She measured my belly for the first time and said that I am measuring perfectly for triplets at 18 weeks. All of you (myself included) who said I look small can rest assured that my size is perfect.

I thought you might like to see a frontal view for a change. Isn't my fly away hair lovely? :)

The babies are all measuring about the same--a little over 18 weeks. The baby boy is just a little bit bigger than the baby girls. Their heart rates are great and their measurements are great.

Baby girl B is kind of hard to make out in this shot.

Baby girl C has changed positions to the fetal position.

An update on me... my blood pressure is still good. It is a little higher than it was before, but it is still very good. My back pain is increasing again, so my doctor wants me to wear the support belt for 2 weeks and see if it helps before starting physical therapy.

My cervix is a little shorter, which is normal, but is definitely closed. It is still plenty long, just not as long before. Starting this week, I will be having weekly appointments from here on out! It seems like that is practically what I have been doing already...well, mostly every 2 weeks except when I have had complications, I would go more regularly. I am fine with that...better safe than sorry.

I need to come up with a fun little song to sing in my head to go along with the beat of my pounding heart. LOL! I have been hearing it in my ear for several weeks now, but it was just occasionally; now it is pretty much constant. I believe with triplets, the increase in blood flow is 100%, so my heart is working really hard.

I had to postpone my root canal because I got sick last week, but I still have to get it done. It will probably be next week some time. Me and the babies would appreciate your prayers that it will be a painless and stress-free experience. :)

The nursery... We got the cribs assembled this week and I have been buying accessories and working on hanging them on the walls. Some of you have asked to see pictures of the nursery with the cribs in it, so here ya go. We don't have the dresser yet, which will unfortunately go in front of the window....there is no where else to put it. I wanted to put all the cribs on one wall, but that isn't going to work due space constraints. The nursery is practically going to be or already is wall-to-wall furniture, but we will make it work. :)

The closet doors are just to the right of this picture and the dresser will go in front of the window to the left of this picture.

As you can probably see, the door to the room is on the left, so that cuts into a lot of the wall space. I thought about turning all the cribs long ways to give more wall space but that just reduces the amount of floor space.

This is a tiny wall space between the closet doors and the door to the room. I was planning to just use the top of the dresser as a changing table, but this changing table was given to us and the extra storage below will help. I really like the changing table, but it does take up space...who knows, it may not even stay in this room.