11/4 good news

Saw high risk doc today, got more labs bck and growth on babies. Its all good. My protein has gone way down in this particular 24hr sample they just received labs on and all other bloodwork looks really good. Baby A is head down on left side and weighs 4lbs 4 oz, baby b is head up on my right side and weighs 4lbs. We are all pleased with growth. They were both breathing in there. Tech said they often have to wait a while to see the breathing snce its not necessary-just practice but they were both doing it! I have only gained 1lb in a month! I stay on bed rest, allowed to drive to boone's school and to SL OB but no where else. I will see both docs every week. Was a very optimistic visit!! Gotta run! More later

32 weeks and Pre-eclampsia

Ok, so many of you know there has been a change in status for me. Last wed I dipped positive for protein in urine, a sign a pre-eclampsia which is dangerous for mostly me with regard to organ failure. Bed rest only "treatment" and delivery only "cure". So they did a 24hr urine collection and bloodwork. This is what evryone has been watching mefor since I began to develop it when they induced labor with boone at 37wks and cuz twins increase my risk further. Well itseems I have it. I was at 300mg protein when induced with boone and Monday my labs came back with 781mg.th
The bright side is my blood pressure is only slowly rising so far. If I get to 2000mg protein or 160/110 BP they will immediately take the babies out. She has me on strict bed rest- not even driving!

So this is what I learned today and the plan. Pre-e is cyclical. Protein levels can fluctuate greatly. The babies should not be affected unless I was allowed to get severe and that won't happen the way I am being watched. I can heat lunch, shower and eve sit up, but othrwise she said be a princess. If bed rest doesn't control protein
levels then I get hospitalized. I left urine collection and blood today and am currently collecting another 24hr worth to drop tomorrow with blood again. Thursday morning dan and I will go to 8am appt with high risk doc in med center. At that visit we will see growth rate and estimated size of babes and fnd out if I should be given steroid shots to spped up lung development. Then that afternoon we will go back to see dr. Mcdonald again. Beyond that, we ju
st don't know. Other than we definitely expect to deliver much earlier than 37 weeks and should be prepared for a NICU stay .

October 23 Baby Shower

I am back dating this post a few days as it is to be about our baby shower on Saturday. As many of you know my friends/neighbors are also pregnant and so we had a big bbq and joint baby shower for all three of us. It was wonderful and I want to share some pictures, courtesy of another friend/neighbor, Jim Phillips. He did a fantastic job and we are all so very grateful! His lovely wife, Kristie took the pictures actually at the gifting part of the shower and she too did a bang up job! There are so many more photos that I just couldn't load them all. This is a small sampling...Enjoy!

October 19 thirty weeks

Hello all! Well, as usual no news is good news. This is my last week I will have without a doctor's appt. Between the 2 drs I have been going somewhere 3 out of 4 weeks. That is going to end. I will start seeing reg OB every week after this.. dunno what that means for high risk doc. Guess I will soon find out!

Our big bbq/shower for us neighborhood gals is this Saturday. Looking forward to that but sorta crazy since its here at our house and all three of us have been sick with long drawn-out colds these last few weeks.

The boys seem well in there- get to bouncing around a few times a day. I promise to try to get some pictures of my tummy at the shower to post. I think I look close to what I did at 37wks with boone.

Hope all is well out there!

October 6 growth update

Went to high risk dr (MFM) today and both boys are still right on average. One is 2lb 11oz and the other is 2lb 8oz. Blood pressure is good, no gestational diabetes, no protein in urine... all is well! The boys are viable now if they had to be delivered but 32 weeks is sort of the line you really want to cross. Dr said that the risk of permanant complications significantly reduces at that point. Of course the goal is to go full term and bring those babies home with me!

October 1, 27.5 weeks

Just popping in an update, no news is good news, but I know its frustrating to check a blog and there not be anything new there. I go to one of my two doctors just about every week. So far so good! I am waiting on my glucose test results and go to the high risk doc next week for a growth check (babies not me!).

We went to Waffle House last night for dinner and I barely squeezed in the booth and felt sorta clausterphobic the whole time, so the belly is definitely growing! The boys go through phases of quiet and then thump all around in there. I am getting tired a lot and don't usually sleep through the night. Guess my body is getting me ready!

10 more weeks to go!

Reid James and Cole Daniel 24wks

So we finally decided on names! It was a lot harder than I anticpated. I went for a check up with the hig risk docs on Tduesday and all is well. Growth is right on average- the measurements calculate baby A at 1 lb 7oz and B at 1 lb 5 oz. I would like to stop referring to A and B since we have names but they need to get a little bigger before I feel sure both doctor's offices are on the same page about who is who. They are both head down and moving around regularly!