Babies Nursery & Gear

Here are some pictures of the nursery:




As you can see, it is a tight room so they will be sharing a crib to start out until we move into a bigger place. We've only owned this condo in Hoboken for a year, so we will be sad to leave it so soon but it is much too small for a family of 5!
Here are some pictures of our Triple Decker stroller (gaaah!) and our new glider chair for all those feedings:

Pictures

25 weeks

All three babies heads (group brainstorm):

BabyA:

Baby B:

Baby C:

27 weeks:

26th Week - Shower Recap, Terbutaline Infusions, Reality Check

Well, we're still in awe of what an amazing shower Carolynn, my mom and Moira put together for us on Saturday night. I'm sure we'll be reminiscing for a long time. Everything was so well done and looked beautiful - the pea pod theme and baby clothesline were so very cute. The band was amazing and I know everyone really enjoyed the food and the open bar! As a final touch, Mary Vaughan provided the clever and adorable peapod candy bars. Thank you so much Carolynn, Moira, Mom and Mary! Thank you to everyone for the generous gifts and for being there to share in the celebration. We are blown away with everything we received.

I had a lot of contractions yesterday during the home monitoring so they had to call the doctor and he decided he wanted to start me on a medicine that will ease the contractions. So, today a nurse came to show me how to administer it. The medicine is called Terbutaline and it is administered through a small catheter that pumps into my thigh 24 hours a day. It is just a small dose to start and then they can increase it as needed. It is a pain to have to wear this all the time and to have to change out the medicine every 2 days, but it is nice that things are so high-tech these days to allow me to do this from home vs. the hospital.

I had to do a quick Glucose test today which checks for Gestational Diabetes (common for multiple pregnancies). You drink this syrup-like drink and then an hour later they take your blood. So, they will let me know the results on that test. I was able to talk to the doctor and he explained that starting me on the Terbutaline Infusions is one more measure he can take that will help to keep me out of the hospital. He said "you do know that you will be admitted at some point before you are ready to deliver right?". I really didn't know that this would be a definite but he was setting my expectation that I will be in the hospital at some point. He said he is just doing everything possible to get me through the 20's (in terms of # of weeks) without having to be admitted. He said he would be ecstatic if I got to 30 weeks before having to be admitted and if I went to 32 weeks before delivering he would be so thrilled he'd "run around the office buck naked". It looks like my last day of work is going to be April 4th so that I can have everything wrapped up beforehand assuming nothing happens before then.

Let's hope there are no more curve balls this week...

Third Trimester Mark (25 Weeks)

This week began my third trimester and it started a little rough. I will not get into details here but I had to spend 12 hours in the hospital on Monday due to something called fecal impaction...that is all you need to know. It was a horrendous experience but it is all cleared up now (literally). We had an ultrasound this week and the babies are doing great. They are moving a lot and are at very healthy weights: Baby A - 1 lb 12 oz, Baby B - 1 lb 8 oz, Baby C - 1 lb 11 oz. They said my cervix is also in great shape with no changes so the Doctor was very excited. The babies are kicking away now.

Some exciting news for the Burns family is that Carolynn (my sister) and her husband Steve are expecting their first baby August 26th. Things are going well with her pregnancy and the Burns family is growing quickly! Our babies will be only a few months apart so it should make for an exciting time.

We're really looking forward to our baby shower this weekend and are so relieved I have made it to this point to be able to attend. That's all for now...will write more soon.