Ahhh... a Bit of Fresh Air!!

Check this out!

Isn't that a pretty picture?! That is the view outside my window tonight. The view from my bed. It is so peaceful and nice that I get a very nice view. (The flowers on the left are from James, Grant, Alex, and Ethan, and the ones on the right are from my boss, Karen.)

I would go crazy if I had to look the other way. The other way has just 2 really tall buildings right across the street. This is one of the rooms with the best view. See?

I am glad that is what I see on days like today.

Well, here is an update! I am 27 weeks today!! WHOOOO HOOO!! Another step closer! As for the babies- Their monitoring looked really good today. We had to get the ultrasound out this morning to make sure that we were getting all three babies on the monitors and we found that Baby B was laying on top of C. We had to do some wrangling to get all three on the monitors without overlapping, but we got it.

Then for the afternoon monitoring, Baby C had rolled as far away from his brothers as he could. It was interesting that he was not even near the same spot he had been just a couple of hours before. Oh well, shows he is still grooving in there!

Mommy didn't have as much of a good day. Yesterday I was notified that I had a little to much protein in my urine so we had to do a 24 hour analysis. That came back this afternoon and I still have protein in there. So, I have the beginnings of pre-eclampsia. This is such a mild case right now that all they are doing is observing and going to do another 24 hr analysis in about 3-4 days. I do have a bit of high blood pressure, but even that keeps changing, so they aren't extremely worried about it right now.

If the pre-eclampsia progresses it could mean that we would have to deliver the babies early. But right now, that is not likely. They are doing everything they can to keep me from developing it worse.

On another note, they are starting me on Heprin to keep me from getting blood clots. Since I am a bigger woman, on bedrest, and pregnant with triplets, I have a much higher chance of getting blood clots than others. So they will start the Heprin shot (2 times a day) tonight. I also have these compression things that are on my legs (they feel like a massage, kinda nice) that help the blood flow too.

So, I really know that I am in the best place possible. As much as it is hard to be here and not at home, I know I need to be here for my health and the health of the babies.

One exciting note!! I got wheelchair privileges today!!!! That means when James, or my mom (or whomever I deam) comes to visit, if I am just itching to get outside, I can go on a 20 minute wheel chair ride outside or around the building! James took me on my first one today. We went outside and he tried to walk along the sidewalk but the bumps from the splits in the sidewalk started irritating me. So we went across the street to a nice little courtyard and just sat out there and talked. It was a wonderful little bit of fresh air. (I get to do it 2 times a day if I want, but only with nurse approval!)

Please keep those prayers going up to God! We still are in need of the miracles only God can provide! Thank you to all of you for the thoughts and prayers.

Love,
Jessica (and Grant, Alex, and Ethan)

Week 13 Appointment

So we went to the doctor today, and had a wonderful visit. Everything looked great. They are measuring well, and heartrates are A-153, B-154, and C-167. The thing is B & C are the identicals so the heartrate thing is not going to work right now. Our next appointment is not till May 8, and we hopefully will be able to find out the sex of the babies.

Here are the pictures of the babes from today.

Probably the last family picture that we are going to get before they come out!!!

Baby A profile.

Baby A profile #2.
Baby A flipped upside down!

We got a couple of 3D pictures of Baby A because the other two were not cooperating enough... so here is the first 3D of Baby A. It's left arm is crossing in front of it's face.

3D of Baby A, in the same position as the last picture.

3D of Baby A- the arm moved out of the way.

Baby B

Baby C with the hand in front of it's face.

Baby C- it looks like this one might be sucking it's thumb.

The measurements of the skin on the back of the neck were measuring great! They measure that for the chance of Down Syndrome. They said that the measurements of our babies was great and the chance of DS is very very minimal! That was very reasuring. Well, thatnks for the prayers. We appreciate them all. I'll update with another belly picture on Thursday. Ta ta for now!

Fun out and about in CO

We went on an adventure today! We decided to go up to Estes Park. We got there and went straight to the dog park with Jet. He got to swim, as you can see in the video at the end of this post. Estes was packed with people!!! So we decided to take CO Hwy 7 to Central City. There was some amazing views on the way! Just take a look at all the pictures.

Here is James and Jet playing at the dog park

Here is the creek by the bridge that we have pictures of. It was beautiful!!!

Camp Wyoba

I went to my favorite place on Earth on Friday. I had never been to Camp Wyoba in the fall when the leaves have changed and it is chilly. I walked the whole camp taking pictures for an archive for my office. Here are my favorites and a video of the creeek.