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…