30 Weeks & Counting!

Well, we have made it through another week and I am now 30 weeks! We have exactly 3 weeks, 4 days until the C-Section! I'm not sure words can express how excited we are and how excited I am to get these babies out! I have loved this pregnancy and carrying them, yet they are getting heavy :) Michael and I have been working on the nursery and it is almost officially done. We have a few more things to put away yet I am really pleased with how it has turned out. We have also worked on turning our dining room into Nursery #2. We have the swings set up as well as we have a second changing station and a storage bookshelf that is currently holding diapers and other baby supplies. We should finish the nursery this week (for the most part)--Michael is going to go buy 2 more mattresses and pick up a few last supplies that we need. We are really happy with how everything is turning out! I am also going to work on packing the hospital bags--it is all becoming a little more real!

I mentioned earlier that we were going to use a twin and single carrier as means of transporting the children. Well a good friend bought these for us and we are so excited to have them! This is our plan for how we will take the children out in more enclosed spaces where we can't use the stroller. I took a picture of Michael wearing the twin carrier. 

I love them! I am super excited to use them as well! They are meant for preemie babies so we can put them in starting at 3lbs. And then they adjust as the babies grow. 

We also had a doctor's appointment this week. We started with an ultrasound which turned into a VERY long ultrasound. It is taking the techs a lot longer to distinguish which baby is which and all of the babies were being very modest so she couldn't tell the boys from the girl :) It is easy to tell which baby is Baby A (Ethan) but Babies B & C are somewhat intermingled. And then mid-way through Baby B (Naomi) the machine decided to shut-off so she had to re-boot the whole system and get back all of her data. Thankfully nothing was lost yet it just added time to the ultrasound. I spent some of Baby B and all of Baby C's ultrasound with my eyes closed trying to calm my nausea. I guess for some reason laying on your back for that long can make you nauseous and it was pretty intense! I really enjoyed the tech we had though and she let us hear all of the babies' heartbeats on the doppler. We hadn't heard their heartbeats since they were about 10 weeks old. I love seeing and hearing their heartbeats--it just does something to my own heart :) 

The ultrasound was also long because they did a Biophysical Profile (BPP) on each of the babies. A BPP measures their breathing, movement, muscle tone, heart rate, and amniotic fluid. Each of the babies scored a perfect score! Yay! The doctor told us that each of the babies gets an A+ :) They have also been able to tell on the ultrasound that the babies are doing "practice breathing" which will help them once they are born! 

The doctor was really pleased with how everyone is doing. I am still doing really well and my blood pressure remains normal. I lost a few millimeters on my cervix but it is still long and closed! I told the doctor about some pressure I have been feeling and he told me more about contractions. After he described it to me I know that I am not experiencing any contractions. However, I have been experiencing this pressure--it is an outward pressure as if the babies are trying to pop through my skin :) The doctor said that my abdominal wall is being stretched/pulled so some of the pressure is from that. And also according to the doctor I have "a lot of baby inside." Haha...

The babies have also been gaining weight! Baby A (Ethan) now weighs 3 lbs, 6oz. Baby B (Naomi) weighs 3 lbs, 4oz. Baby C (Levi) weights 3 lbs, 3oz. So we are really happy with their weight gain! So if each of the babies could gain about a pound more a piece then that will put us in a really good place! Ethan is still in the breech position, yet Naomi and Levi have moved (of course). They are now both transverse which means that they are laying sideways. Naomi is on my left side and Levi is on my right side. The ultrasound tech mentioned that Naomi is squished--poor babies :) 

So, the doctor said that since we are all doing so well that we don't have to go back for 2 weeks! Yay! At that time I am also going to receive a steroid shot and then 24 hours later I will get a second steroid shot. They are a supposed to give me the shots in my hip :/ I will be really happy the day all of these shots are over. The shots are for the babies though and it will help mature their longs at an even faster rate. So, I can handle the shots since they are for them but I am still going to celebrate the day when I don't have anymore shots :) 

We have definitely been blessed with everyone's support and generosity towards us! We have been so overwhelmed with people's desire to help us. Michael's work is having a shower for him on Oct. 2nd which will be fun. And then on Wednesday the school where Michael's mom works is having a shower for us as well. We feel so fortunate and blessed. These babies haven't even made their entrance yet and there are already so many people that love them. 

We also got some more pictures of the babies at our ultrasound last week. I will post them on their pages--I'm not sure how well you can see them as it was very difficult to get good pictures of them. However, during the ultrasound the tech did get so close-up views of them and it is amazing how they have developed! I cannot wait to meet these three little people as they have already captured my heart :)