A Special Prayer...

I have been on bed rest since May 7th. For an active and on the go person, there are times when the days get very long and it seems that time is standing still. To get me through each day, I think about what it will feel like to hear them cry for the first time, imagine what their sweet faces will look like, try to organize (in my mind and with tons of help from Karry) our home to prepare for them and relish the thought of walking in our front door with them! I have had so much encouragement from so many people! I am overly blessed and try to stay focused on that as I am going through this journey!
I go back to the doctor on July 2nd and think that I will know more about the expected delivery date. If they deliver at 35 weeks and 4 days, they will be able to eat on their own! I have 14 days until that time! I think at this point that I will be scheduled for a c-section no later than 36 weeks. If they stay on track with their growth, they should both be around 6lbs each! When I think of carrying even more baby in the Texas heat...well...let's just say that clothes are not appealing to me!!!
I can't believe that I am so close to meeting these little guys and am humbled daily with the gifts that are about to be given to me!
Thank you Charlotte for the special prayer for my little family!

Addition to the nursery....and already 4 1/2 lbs!

The boys will be staying in a daycare about 30 feet from my office next year! We are opening the daycare for employee's children. The teacher lead for the daycare, Elsa Tarango, painted the tricycle and airplane on the nursery wall. I am so impressed with how cute they both look! The nursery is ready for two boys that today weighed in at 4 1/2lbs each. If you add that up and add a couple of pounds for the amniotic fluid for both babies...you can visualize my belly! If you have ever been pregnant, you also must know how my back feels! I have arms, legs and several other body parts making it very hard to get comfortable!

I am continuing to be monitored 2 times daily for contractions. I have had as many as 10 in an hour and as few as 1 in an hour. I had a doctor's appointment today and they adjusted my medicine. Hopefully this medicine works or the next step is to have a pump that administers medicine continuously. They will insert a cathedar in my stomache and I will have to wear the pump that contains the medicine. The same company that monitors the contractions will also monitor and adjust the medication in the pump. Hopefully I will not get to that option!

If these little miracle boys stay put, I will more than likely have a scheduled c-section in 3 weeks. Collin, baby A, is breech. His little bum is sitting at the top of my cervix. Holden, Baby B, is spread out high in my abdomen!

Just thinking about seeing their sweet faces for the first time floods my heart with joy!

We ready for these baby boys...but they need to wait a few more weeks!

After a 5 day stay in the hosptial, Karry and I are so glad that the doctor's appointment yesterday landed us back at home and not back to Baylor Medical! My cervix is short and softening and I have been having contractions. I was given steroids at the hospital to help the boy's lungs develop and medication to help stop the contractions. I am pretty stable now at home with a monitor. I monitor every morning and afternoon for contractions and electronically send the information to a company. A nurse calls within a few minutes to discuss the results of each monitoring session. My threshold for contractions is 5 in a 60 minutes session. I have had anywhere between 2 to 10 contractions in a hour. I have had to start taking something to help me sleep and medication every 4 hours to stop contractions. I am hoping that all of this will buy us at least 26 more days. If the boys are born now, they will be fine but will have to spend time in the NICU. I really want to take them home with me when I leave the hospital, so I keep telling them that no matter how crowded they feel it is more comfortable where they are now!

I am in the hospital...but the nursery is ready for the boys!!!

I am so excited that I got the nursery done before I was admitted to the hospital! I went for a regular check up on Thursday and my cervix length had shortened and the cervix had also softened. While I was getting a sonogram, I had a contraction! I was admitted to labor and delivery and they monitored the boys and my contractions. I had several throughout that night, but they are giving me two different types of medication to stop them. As of Friday afternoon, no other conractions have been detected by the monitors!! They also have given me steroid shots to help the babies' lungs develop quicker. The needle for that shot was HUGE!!! If all goes well, there is a possibility that I could go home with a monitor on after a week! That is probably a long shot, but it helps to think that it is a possibility! Our goal is still to try to keep these guys incubating inside until 35 - 36 weeks!