First Milestone Met? Check!!!

I turned 24 weeks today which is a HUGE milestone for triplets!!!!!

Everything after today is only good news as far as their development and survivability is concerned. I opted to get the steroid shots today to help the development of their lungs and skin so that is a positive thing too. Other than that - the girls are doing great. I have 8 weeks until my target date and anything after that is gravy. We are praying for Valentines babies! LOL At the last growth ultrasound - they were measuring about 1lb each so I am sure they are all a bit bigger than that since it was like 2 1/2 weeks ago. Imagine a cellular flip phone opened and that is the size of our girls! Amazing isn't it?

The hospital staff has been really awesome here and I really can’t complain other than just having cabin fever and wanting to get out of my room more than allowed. Heck - I would even opt to have a blood draw at this point if it meant I could go down to the lab! LOL

They have a chat hour every Thursday and all the pregnant girls get together and talk about why they’re here and stuff. In the last 2 weeks I have met a girl who was pregnant with twins and they had twin to twin transfusion syndrome. Long story short – one of her twins died and now she has to carry the viable baby and the dead baby for another 15 weeks since they were identical. I couldn’t imagine having to do that knowing that one of your children was dead inside of you.
Then today I met a girl who is 19, she was diagnosed with malnutrition and brought into the hospital. Come to find out she has graves disease and it is so bad that she is on intravenous fluids and can’t eat at all. She is 20 weeks and they have been giving her so many meds and steroids that they don’t know if her baby is going to not have difficulties or mental retardation when it comes out. She is so terrified and cried the entire time we were all together. It just broke my heart to see her!
All of this came at the perfect time for me because I was feeling down about being stuck in here and felt like I was missing out on a lot of "pregnancy" related things like the shopping and setting up the nursery and stuff - but now I realize just how much worse things can truly be.
God certainly has an uncanny way of thumping us between the eyes when we need a wake up call and making us realize just how lucky and blessed we are.

To my girls: 8 more weeks minimum until you can come out to meet everyone and while that sounds like a long long time - it isn't. We all love you so much already and can't wait to meet you! Grow big, get strong, take up all the room you want - mommy will survive- and come out to meet us in your own time. Stay as long as you want - the room is available only for you, my sweet angels. Mommy and Daddy love you more than anything!