Breaking Records

That's what one doctor told me this week. Today is 29 weeks. I will only be pregnant for 3 more weeks. Yesterday I saw a different doctor from the practice-all of whom are absolutely fantastic and always sit and give me all the time I want or need, and often just visit for a few minutes. I haven't seen this particular doctor  in probably more than 2 weeks- I  usually see my own doctor, but everyone in the practice takes their turns doing rounds.  As he walked into my room he simply said, "We are just breaking records!" Of course I am not actually breaking records but it sure is nice for things to be going so smoothly right now. 

My pregnancy complications include (but are not necessarily limited to):
- twins
- identical twins
- mono chorionic (one placenta)
- mono amniotic (one sac, resulting in twisted cords)
- vasa previa (just google this one, there is no short explanation)

Having these complications did not give me great odds at having a successful pregnancy and delivering 2 healthy babies. Statistics weren't totally against us, but they weren't in our favor either. Making it to 24 weeks was the BIGGEST deal, because then my babies had a 50% chance at surviving. Making it to 28 weeks was like the 'cherry on top' because now if I delivered the babies only had a 10% chance of lasting mental complications, but with a 90% survival rate.

The fact that now I've made it to 29 weeks and have not had any recent complications, issues, or serious health concerns is pretty awesome. Basically, I have laid in this hospital bed for the last 5 weeks striving to be the easiest and most boring patient on the floor. I'm doing prett good.

I am learning so many things with this pregnancy. Medical jargon for one: I know proper terms for the babies' positions. An "ante partem mom" is what I'm called. It's basically the opposite of post partem. Post partem moms have delivered their babies, ante partem moms have not delivered their babies. I know how the babies need to be positioned to get the best results on the monitors. I can read the ultrasounds better than I ever thought someone should. My sonographer is great, actually, in taking time to show me what she sees so I can interpret the images better myself. My babies have hair! You can see hair on an ultrasound at 28 weeks apparently, did you know that?! Crazy stuff like that.

My boys have been back in town for the past 5 days and I have had all sorts of time with them; it's been lovely! So I've git some pictures of them. I added my newest picture of the belly. It's the same shirt on picture day for several weeks because it's the only shirt i have lleft that doesn't show the bottom inch or 2 of my belly (ps, I hate the feeling of trying to have my pants covering those inches- there is enough pressure on my belly from the inside, I don't need it from the outside too). My belly us HUGE, it's bigger than I've ever had. Zed wants everyone to know that it is SO much bigger than what the pictures and maternity shirts make it appear. My belly button is gone and stretched out (not sure if it will pop out because its stretched pretty tight) and Otis tells me the babies ate it, because it looms like I've got no belly button.

Haha, now for some pictures!

Eating lunch with my boys

29 WEEKS!!!!!

Zed brought me a sleeping boy so I got a few minutes of snuggle time!

They love their time at the hospital with me

Whoa, that belly!

It's exhausting being at the hospital all the time.

Zed gave the boys haircuts

They spent one morning down at the air force base

So this is the collection of ultrasound pictures that are at my moms house, so it's mostly just ones from May and June. I have all of the ones from before that back at home and all of the pictures from July to now in my suitcase here. We have quite the documentation of these boys going on!!