Hatched By 2 Chicks soon to be 2 Prince's and A Princess

The shower this past weekend was wonderful.  The food, the family and friends made for the most exciting welcoming of our new family. Our hosts were amazing as well as the food and decorations.  A most special thanks to Reyanna and Sheila for a magnificent welcoming feeling.  They not only shared in the hosting and celebration and work to put this wonderful event together but they were such amazing hosts that I felt like everyone was welcomed to the event as part of the family and not just as friends or co-workers.  The best baby shower I ever attended, but I'm probably biast. LOL

Marks Amazing Brushetta

Fruit Platter given to us by Itialian American Social Club

Beautiful cake made by Shiela

Wonderful treat table set up so that everyone could take home a goodie bag from the babies!!!

Some of the decorations made by Reyanna  

Thanks to all that came to welcome our new family.  Everyone that did come or planned to come or couldn't come because of other things going on; we love you all and know that you hold a special place in our hearts.

To Mom that showed up as a surprise just to be with us on our special day, your gift of cherished blankets will be a special gift we will keep all our lives but so will the thought of how special your gift was that flew out for a special surprise on a wonderful day that meant so much to both of us that even now, I can't believe how fortunate I am to have the most amazing Mother in the world.

Ashlynn's Carebear Blanket

To my Dad and Kevin who couldn't be with us, you made a special sacrifice by letting Mom come to be with us during this very special occasion that I love you more than ever before.  Not only did you let her leave your side to be with us a few special days, but you will be doing it again very soon so that she can be by my side during my c-section.  A special thanks for your heartfelt gift of love to us.

While mom was here she got to experience one of our doctor appointments. Although we didn’t get any additional pictures because it was just a monitoring appointment, we did have a few fun little things happen. Mom got to see a quick ultrasound and during it she got to see Ashlynn with the hiccups and Hunter opening and closing his eyes. But the best part of all is when the doctor came in while we were doing the heart monitoring and asked if we wanted to set the date for the C-Section!!! Before I could even answer mom had said YES!!! So the date is set for April 6th, 2011 they will do an amnio on the 5th to make sure that we have lung development and as long as it all comes back ok then we will deliver on the 6th. Mom was also able to ask if I could have 2 people back during my C-Section but the doctor said its not up to him but he will try and sneak her back there... Well guess that’s all for now!!! Thanks again to everyone for their generosity, love and support!!! It means more than you will ever know!!!

29 WEEK DR. APPOINTMENT

The time is near!!!  We had our 29 week Dr. appointment. Everyone is doing GREAT!!! My hopes for a natural “vaginal” delivery are dwindling down to nothing. The stipulations on a vaginal delivery with triplet’s  is that Kristner (Baby A) has to be the biggest baby and has to be head down also known as the vertex position.  So as of right now its looking like a C-section.  But I don’t mind as long as they are here safe and sound!!!

Kristner (Baby A) is currently 2lbs 13oz and in the Breech position (Butt down), Ashlynn (Baby B) is 3lbs and ready to go in the Vertex position (Head down), and Hunter (Baby C) is 2lbs 11oz in the Vertex position (Head down). The average weight for a single baby around 29 weeks should be 2lbs 6oz so we are ahead of the weight class still!!! And I’m hoping to keep it that way!!! The Dr. says that they are all actively practicing their breathing which is great!!! That hopefully means less time in the NICU. He is saying that in a couple weeks we will look at a calendar and set the date (between 34-35 weeks) as long as I don’t go in to labor or have any issues come up before then… If I can make it to 34-35 weeks (April 2-15) he says that their NICU stay should not be too long. Just long enough to make sure they are eating on their own and gaining weight. The average is only a week!!! That’s going to be the hard part for me!!! I can’t stand the thought of leaving them in the hospital (even though my house is only 10 min away) or seeing them with any tubes on their fragile little bodies.

Now that they are getting big I am finding it harder and harder to breathe!!! I get out of breath just standing sometimes!!! And when it comes to sleep I have my good days and bad days!!! As long as I can get all the pillows propped up right I sleep great!!! But sometimes it’s just not possible and I find a couch is sometimes better!!!  

The bigger they get the harder it is to get good ultrasound pictures of them but here are a few...

Hunter's Profile

Ashlynn's Profile

We could not get any good pictures of Kristner this time!!! But we did get this cute little video of Ashlynn playing with her tongue!!!

Now that we are almost a month away I have gone to twice a week monitoring!!!  I now have to go every Friday and every Tuesday!!! They will just be checking for heartbeats and tracking their heart rates as well as my blood pressure and blood sugar… They will do just a quick ultra sound along with it but we will more than likely not get any pictures… They will do another big ultrasound in 4 weeks on the 29^th to measure them and check their weight gain again…