30 Week Update

Yesterday was our 30 week appointment and Biophysical Profile. I am EXTREMELY happy to say that both babies passed with flying colors! While Darcy didn't measure them or give us their weights (they only do this every couple of weeks for accuracy purposes), she did do a preliminary check on their size and Baby A actually caught up with Baby B!! They both are between 3 and 3 1/2 lbs and they are both head down! Baby B finally turned after three months of being breech~I am so relieved! Now if we can only make it past 34 weeks, I have a good chance of trying to deliver naturally. It's funny to see the babies on the ultrasound again too. Their personalities are so different and yet we haven't even met them. Baby A is so lazy and Baby B is extremely active. In almost every ultrasound B has been sitting on, kicking or hitting A. A just takes it too. It'll be great to see what they are actually like once they are born and if any of these in-utero personality types will stick.

This Sunday I will have completed 31 weeks (7 days short of our second goal). This also is the four week mark since I was put on bedrest. The medication is still working, however I have noticed that I have been having more contractions lately. This is pretty typical, as the medication usually is effective for only a couple of weeks. I will most likely have to go back into the hospital for a couple of days for what they call a Mag Wash. This is where they hook you up to the Magnesium Sulfate (remember the fire breathing drug?!?!) and clean your system of all of the contraction stopping medicine. After that they send you home and hopefully you're good for another couple weeks on the Nifedipine and Terbutaline.

To date I've gained 36 lbs. I can't believe that I've almost hit the 40 lbs. mark! AGHHHHH! I still feel really good and for the most part I'm pretty comfortable, despite being in bed for the last month and having almost seven lbs of babies in my tummy. : ) The babies are moving ALL the time and it's amazing how much their movement have changed from just four weeks ago. For instance, at least one of the babies has the hiccups every day, sometimes two or three times. They are always moving and kicking and my personal favorite is now that I can feel "parts." This morning I was laying in bed on my right side. I had just woken up and I felt a hard spot just under my ribs. I started pushing on it (I'm almost 100% sure it was a knee) and it would move. I would find it again and push a little and it would move again. This went on for a couple of times and then BAM! Baby A kicked me right in ribs, hard! I love moments like this. They are so simply yet so thrilling.

Thank you all for your continued prayers, love and encouragement. We are so thankful for each of you and appreciate all that you have done for us during this time. Please continue to pray for us and the babies, as we are still not completely out of the woods. If you like, you can join us in prayer that...

• The babies would continue to grow, grow, grow.
• I can keep these babies in until 34-35 weeks.
• That I would remain patient and maintain a right attitude about bed rest.
• The doctors and nurses would have wisdom in treating me and the babies.