30 week update

I made it to 30 weeks!! Another big milestone. Everyone including my friends, doctors and nurses keep telling me what a good job I am doing, although sometimes I don't feel like it. The isolation of this hospital room has taken its emotional toll on me. I would appreciate your continued prayers for the babies and also please pray for my emotional state of mind.

My SIL, Jill came by this morning and went with me to my appointment. I thought she would like to see all the babies moving around in there. I also thought it would be good to have someone be here with me in case my appointment didn't go well. It is much easier to have someone here rather than going back to my room by myself - Craig wasn't able to come to this appointment this week.

The appointment went well; all the kiddos look good. We only do growth every other week, so I won't have their new weights until next Thursday. Today was heart rates, fluids, cord doppler and cervical checks. Tyler felt the need to show off his boy parts to us. It was very clear! We also saw a few girl parts as well. Maybe TMI, but it was funny because it was more evident than ever before. I thought you might find it humorous. But, all in all, everything looked great with the babies.

On another note... several of you have asked about the date and plan for the c-section. The goal as of a few weeks ago when my cervix went down hill was 30 weeks (peri's goal), my OB's goal was 32 weeks. Since then, my cervix has improved and my peri changed her goal back to 34 weeks, but my OB still says 32 weeks. This week my cervix did shorten some more with the occasional funneling. Last week the cervix measured 32 or 3.2, this week it measured 30 or 3 cm. I still had the funneling with the residual of 18 which has shortened from last weeks 21 residual. This basically means this is the amount in length of my cervix after the cervix has funneled. My doctor seems to think I have a very strong cervix which doesn't show to be funneling constantly, so between the occasional funneling and the gradual, not drastic decline of the cervical length, she thinks I may go several more weeks. So, to make a long story even longer, there is no plan to take the babies at any certain date. When I speak of goals, that is just that...a goal. They obviously would love for me to go longer. If I go past 32 or 34 weeks, they will not take the babies, they will continue to allow them to grow and get healthy as long as everything with Mom and the babies are healthy. The only point where they would take them....the only scheduled date for the c-section is February 13th, which is 6 weeks from now. It is highly unlikely that I will make it that long, but if I did, that would be the ultimate goal for the babies. All these other goals are just short goals based on what they are currently seeing and how my body is reacting to the progression of this pregnancy. My doctors may set goals 2, 4 or 6 weeks out, but for me and my sanity, I set goals for me one week at a time. If I do anything more than that, it becomes all too overwhelming and feels like a life time away - more than I would like to think about.



This evening, my brother and SIL, Les and Kim stopped by. They brought me dinner and a little bucket of goodies. Thanks for coming to visit and for the food and goodies.