THE TRIPLETS ARE HOME!!!!

As most of you know THE TRIPLETS ARE HOME!!!! Although they didn’t come home together they are ALL finally home and doing fantastic!!! The only reason the babies had to stay in the hospital was to learn how to eat from a bottle. That from what I found that was a very difficult task and took them longer than I hoped to get down. But in reality I could not ask for more… I had three very healthy babies. I made it about a month longer than most people with triplets. The average is about 30 weeks and I made it to 34 ½!!! The babies were only on oxygen for a day and a half and had no other medical issues. We had one scare with Kristner but soon found that everything was fine (the longest 6 hours of my life!!!) The babies are now 5 weeks old already!!! The first to come home was Ashlynn (everyone expected that!!!) the nurses call all boys wimpy white boys because they all seem to come home last. When she was born she was 4lbs 3oz and now at 5 weeks old she’s our biggest baby at 6lbs 15oz. Ashlynn was in the hospital for three weeks and one day. The first night home went great. The next day our little Hunter came home. When he was born he was 4lbs 6oz and he is now 6lbs 8oz trying hard to catch up to his sister. And a very LONG week later Kristner came home at 3 weeks and 1 day. When Kristner was born he was our littlest at 4lbs 1oz (I blame it on him being squished on the bottom) now at 5 weeks he is still the littlest at 6lbs 2oz. When Hunter came home having  2 babies here was cake!!!! But when Kristner came home it got a little more hectic. Thank goodness we had plenty of help!!! A HUGE THANK YOU to my mom who came out and stayed with us for 5 WEEKS!!! ( we all only thought she would last 2-3 weeks away from dad ) She was a tremendous help!!! She did whatever we needed including feeding a screaming baby, doing laundry, cooking meals and spoiling Melissa with incredible sweets!!! Now that mom has gone home and Melissa is back to work its just me and the babies alone all day and its hectic at times (usually only when they all want to eat at the same time) but its manageable. I even get out a few times a week to run errands like going to the mail, going shopping, go to the cousins baseball games, we even did the march of dimes walk with my co-workers. Even though that’s a lot of work to load up three babies to go places life does not stop and the kiddos should not have to miss out on anything just because it’s a hard task. Besides just the reaction from people when you are pushing a triple stroller is SO worth it!!! The babies have grown SO much in the last 5 weeks. Here’s a few pictures we have taken along the way…

Three days before Delivery!!!

What it takes to go to a baseball game!!!

We love our Boppys!!!

Ready to go!!!

Sweet Dreams

Grandma Loves Us!!!

My SUPER TALENTED sister got to do the triplets first mini photo shoot. Here’s how it turned out…

Ashlynn (5weeks)

 

Ashlynn (stole it from facebook with my phone)

Hunter (5weeks)

Hunter

Kristner (5weeks)

Kristner

Guess thats all for now!!! XOXO