... and what a crazy past 84 hours it has been. First, I want to thank everyone again for all their words of encouragement, support, prayers, thoughts, calls, texts, visits, etc. I have been trying my best to get back to everyone but quite honestly I have been absolutely exhausted with all that has gone on.
Our latest adventure started at 3am on Monday when I woke up to having my water break on one of the babies. It turned out to be our baby boy A, who is down at the very bottom doing such a good job holding his sister and brother in for us. They immediately put me on a magnesium drip to protect the babies brains if delivery was needed, an antibiotic drip to protect me and Baby A from getting any sort of infection from his fluid breaking, lab work to check my blood, and immediate hook up to the monitors to see how the babies were all handling this. I noticed the contractions getting stronger right away, as up to this point I have not been able to feel them. Luckily, with the help of the magnesium drip these slowed down and were a lot less painful.
We had our ultrasound at 2:30 on Monday afternoon to check each of their fluid levels and to see if they had gained any weight. Our little baby A boy has proved to be the trooper through all of this. He is officially at 4 lbs 3 oz, our baby boy C has also been good at putting on the ounces, as he is officially at 3 lbs 13 oz, and our little peanut girl is proving to be just that, a little peanut at just 2 lbs 1 oz. The doctors are not concerned about her weight gain, as she is gaining some weight which is better than nothing, but they are still keeping a very close eye on her. All the fluid for each of the babies came back measuring good, even on baby Boy A. So basically the doctors have said that we could go any day, or we could go in a week or 2 at most.
After that good report I was finally able to eat and drink something, as they needed me to keep an empty stomach incase delivery was on schedule for that day. Thankfully it wasn't because keeping food away from a pregnant and VERY hungry mom carrying triplets was by far the worst thing ever!
Up until this morning they have kept me on the monitors for the babies and magnesium drip 24 hours a day, so there was a lot of relief when they told me I could be taken off everything as the babies were still responding very well to the contractions and BPP tests that they have needed to pass each day. So as of now, today is not they day to deliver, but tomorrow is a whole new day and for now we are just taking it day by day. I am not able to eat or drink anything after midnight incase the next day is the arrival of our 3 little miracles.
Our goal for now is to make it until Friday, with a fun date of 11/11/11, however if I can go further they will let me, as we were informed that every day the babies spend inside me is an additional 2-3 days that the babies don't have to spend in the hospital.
Thank you again to everyone for thinking of us, and we are so gracious to have such caring family and friends following us on this amazing journey. We will keep you all posted if anything changes on the arrival of our family.
Love!
S&B+3
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