Trap Door Still Closed

Can you believe it?! 2 posts in one day - bringing this blog up to date!!!

August 29th, 2007:
Today we had another doctor appointment with Maternal Fetal over in Peoria. It was supposed to be a quick cervix measurement, but they ended up measuring the babies too. Last week my cervix was showing signs of shortening. The shorter it is, the closer we are to delivering the babies. That’s not a good thing at this point. The longer the babies can stay inside, the better. I’ve been having weekly appointments to get my cervix measured. The Peoria docs had said once it goes below a certain threshold, they wanted to see me sooner than whenever my next appointment was. Well, my next appointment was supposed to be next week (September), so they scheduled another appointment for today – again, it was supposed to just measure the “trap door” as Adam calls it.

Well, when we got there, they went ahead and measured everybody. She started out trying to get 3D images of the babies’ faces. Baby B was participating quite nicely, but not so much for A and C. We did get some 2D pictures of them. The 3D imaging is awesome, but for triplets, it’s a little too good. It renders so much that we’d see one baby’s face and another one’s foot (in his brother’s face), so it was hard to get good pictures. That seemed to be the theme of today… Too many body parts and not enough room. Even when we could see Baby B’s face, Baby A’s foot was right there above it. Or Baby A and Baby C’s heads were always so close, it was hard to get good measurements. For example, the mustache (or pig nose as Adam calls it) on Baby B is really part of his umbilical cord shadow.

The good news… the boys are growing just right. They all weighed in at 3 lbs 1 oz or 3 lbs 2 ozs. That’s over 9 lbs of baby!!! They’ve all gained about a pound in 3 weeks. That’s a good sign. The bigger they are, the less chances for problems later!

Even mom measured well today! The cervix measurement was back up to where they like to see it. Although, the funny part of getting that measurement is while they were watching the cervix to make sure it didn’t change, Baby A literally punched at the cervix. They thought it was so funny that they took pictures. Unfortunately we didn’t get that one, but I guess they really are “knocking at the door” to get out. Just wait until October boys!! The doctor today even seemed positive that if we keep up like we are, we might make it to the point that we can deliver here in Bloomington. That would be awesome if the babies didn’t need special NICU care. We have to double check with our pediatrician (which we’re still picking) to see how far along we need to be before they’ll agree to deliver here in town.

Other than that, they said to keep up the bed rest. That gets easier each day. The bigger they get the more energy it takes to do the simple things. Even eating a meal tuckers me out! How sad is that?! Otherwise, I can’t complain too much. If I stand for too long, my back starts to hurt, but it could be so much worse! I can’t see my belly button (or toes) and getting out of comfy chairs takes a little longer, but again, 9 lbs of baby – and growing!!!