Hospital stay is not that bad...

I have to say, being in the hospital has not been so bad! We love the nursing staff! They are so wonderful to us! They take care of our every need and seem to really care about the babies.

Dr. Jones came by today and gave me the go ahead to see the outside world twice a day. This is huge!!! Eric wheeled me down this afternoon. We sat and chatted for a while. The weather was warm today. I would have never known! After being outside for a while, we went around the hospital checking things out. We found the gift shop, but it was closed. Going back to check it out on tomorrow.

We have had lots of visitors. We love our friends and family! Having someone stop by and say hi makes the day go by faster and that's defiantly what I want. Today our friend Kristen sent a beautiful flower arrangement with shinny balls coming out. She said it's for our New Year's Eve celebration... in the hospital :) Too sweet! Speaking of sweet, baby Henry came by to visit today. We got a picture of him with the girls. See...

If anyone is about to have a baby and lives in this area, I would highly suggest delivering at Schumpert St. Mary's. The rooms are huge and so nice!

Ok, it's getting close to my bedtime.

This means shower, meds to help me sleep and the waterfall channel. Yes, this is a real channel at the hospital. It's amazing!! Makes you feel like you are camping next to a stream or relaxing at the spa.

I'm making the best out of my new "housing"!

:)

Belly

35w

This was taken before we headed up to the hospital.

Update and Delivery Date!!!

On Monday we had an appointment with Dr. Jones, our specialist. Everything went good. Babies are growing right along. My blood pressure was a little high and it was noticed that I was pretty swollen. My feet were huge and so were my ankles! I told the nurse that one day the previous week I had seen spots and I was waking up with a headache, one that would go away if I took meds or went back to sleep. We did a non stress test and the girls looked great. I had a couple contractions during the NST, ones that I could not even feel (this is normal for at this point). While we were finishing up the test the Dr. walked in and told us that it thought it would be best for me to be admitted to the hospital for monitoring, since my BP was a little high and I was showing signs of preeclampsia. He also said that he thought we should stay until we delivered at 36 weeks. He told us to go home and pack and come back up to the hospital. He also said we could take our time.
A couple weeks ago I went ahead and packed and Eric had packed that morning. With being a little ahead of schedule and knowing we were going to be in the hospital for a while we stopped by Tacomania and had our last supper :). It was so good!
Once home we added last minute items to our bags and I said bye to my sweet puppies.
We have now been at the hospital for 2 and half days. Everything is looking good. My blood pressure is down, even though it was never really high and I am not as swollen. Once we got here they started a 24 hour urine analysis to make sure I did not have any protein in my urine. The test came back perfect, so I passed. Now we are just here to be monitored until our delivery date. We were put on the books to deliver via section on Tuesday, Jan. 4th!!! We will be 36w2d. We are so excited to finally be meeting our girls! I can not believe it's almost here.

34 week

Had Dr. appointments this week with Jones and Popwell.

Things still are still looking good. Still very pregnant. Could be any day now or could be sometime during the 37th week.

We do know that the girls are doing great and growing the way they are suppose to.

Tomorrow we are 35 weeks!

wow!

It's getting so close!

34w6d

Babies at this point have to be huge! I mean, look at my belly! :)

I have started swelling, my feet, ankles, legs, hands and face!

It's all worth it.

Milestones

Today we have reached 2 milestones!

We are now 34 weeks!!! and I have been on Bed Rest for 1 month now.

Wonder how many more weeks?

Hopefully at least 2 more!

The Girls Room!

We finally finished the girls room!

This room use to be a guest room. Throughout the years a couple of my girlfriends have lived in this room. Before we got pregnant this was the room that I used to get ready in, put my make up and do my hair. Man, have things changed! :)

We had the hardest time finding our cribs. We wanted Jenny Lind Non drop side cribs. I guess a lot of other people did too.

One Saturday I woke up from a nap, walked into the kitchen and noticed my mother in laws purse. I rounded the corner and saw my MIL and FIL. I had no idea they were coming over. They had found one cribs in Tyler and the other in Longveiw. They came over to surprise me with their find. I was so excited!

While I was napping Eric and some of friends put both cribs together. Thank goodness they were at the house!

Eric told me he had something to show me and I walked into the room. I was very surprised!

As you can see the room was painted brown. Painting the room was one of the things we wanted to do in the room.

We had the room painted mystic beige and the ceiling painted ribbon pink. The book shelves were already in the room. The dresser is one we already had. We just painted it white and changed out the hardware with crystal pulls. The lamps were some I picked up at a resale shop. I just changed out the trim. All of the items on the shelves were gifts from friends and family. On the bottom shelves they have a collections of books. The pictures frames on the dresser were gifts. One says, you were loved before we even knew of you. So sweet! The other one has a rocking horse on it and says, Keep calm and Rock on! ha! I'm sure I will have to tell myself that daily!

Our Chandelier was a gift from an Aunt, as well as the rug. Both items help make the room!

The Rug is actually gold, but does not photograph that way.

Ruby's side of the room.

The bunny paintings were painted from my very talented friend Casey.

I love it!

The rocker was Eric's parents. We painted it and had it recovered. It's so comfy!!

The curtains came from Milling Around.

The color worked perfectly and they did not cost a fortune.

Mable's side of the room.
We plan on putting the girls in the same crib for the first 3 months. All twin parents tell us this helps calm the babies, being with their twin.

Mable's crib with her bedding.

Each baby has their monogram in Gold.

The bumper is made of cotton with satin ruffles and bow ties.

The dust ruffle is make with dupani silk.

I love this bedding! It's nicer than ours!

Ruby's is the same, but with her monogram.

We already love their sleep sheep!

Eric jokes that the whale sound is for when the babies are missing their Daddy and the Heartbeat sound is for when they are missing their Mommy.

The blank wall below is where we will put the newborn pics we are having taken.

I thought about buying frames and hanging them, but then realized I have no idea what size they will be or how the picture will be positioned.
The toy box is something that just came in. Believe it or not but we are running out of room in the dresser. The toy box is being used to store blankets and extra linens.

The two pictures above the closet are Holly Hobby prints that I had in my room when I was little. I am so glad that they could be reused in my girls room.
As you can tell we have been stocking up on diapers. I'm sure we will go through these pretty fast.

Hope you enjoyed the little tour!

Stop by to visit anytime!

We are always here!

33w4d

33 week appointment

One of the positives from today's appointment was that we got to go home!

I had a feeling that I should pack my bag, just in case we were sent over to the hospital.

Thank goodness Eric did not have to run home and pick it up!

Our appointment went pretty good. My cervix stayed around the same, 1.4. I was pretty happy with this, since there was a good chance that we could have gone in today and I would have no cervix. Just an Fyi, I did read that you can have 0 cervix and not go into labor.

We are now to see each Doctor once a week. I see Jones on Monday's and Popwell on Thursday's. At these appointments they will do stress test on the girls to make sure everything is looking good and to make sure I am not having any or too many contractions.

We did a test today and both babies looked great! The last 15 mins. I started having contractions. I could tell they were happening and see them show up on the reading. We were not sure what Dr. Jones was going to say. When he first came back in the room I thought he was about to tell us he was sending us to the hospital, but then we realized that it had been 4 plus hours since my last Trebutaline (meds for contractions). Once I took the pill, soon after the contractions went away. I also think it had something to do with the way I was laying.

So now we wait and hopefully wait until at least the first of the year. Dr. Jones told us today, every day that we keep them in my belly is 2 days less they will have to stay in the nici.

Please keep us in your prayers!

In the next couple days I plan on uploading pictures of the nursery.

:)

32w4d

Belly is getting BIG!

32 week appt.

Today we had our weekly appointment.

This week we saw Dr. Popwell.

We always get an ultrasound now, to check my cervix. I did go down to 1.37. The only thing we can do for this is to keep up with the bed rest and taking it easy. I asked him if it would just come down to me having no cervix. He said that it all depends. He said that it could always go back up. We have seen this happen before, so who knows. I'm just taking it easy like I'm suppose to and letting people take care of me. Let me go ahead and say, I have the best Mom ever!!!

She has cooked, cleaned, rearranged and planted! She gets the Mom of the year award!

Also, we have an amazing family that has brought us food, to make sure we do not go hungry and the girls get plenty of calories! We are so grateful!

Ok, back to my appointment...

We got weights on the girls, even though we just got them last week. They normally do not do this, but Eric and I had a plan to be mute when the tech asked us what all they did at the specialist appt. :) They normally only give weights every 2 weeks.

The girls are growing great! It seems as though everything I am eating is going to them... and trust me, that's a lot!!

Ruby, baby A weighs 4 pounds 3 ounces and Mable, baby B weighs 3 pounds 13 ounces!!!

Our little Mable gained an ounce more than her sister! Look at her catching up!

The tech looked to see if the girls had any hair. Ruby had a good bit of hair, on the back of her head :) and Mable had a little bit. Eric joked and asked if she could tell what color it was, since in our family it could be any color!

We can't wait to meet these babies!! We are hoping to make it to the first of the year. Who knows, after all that has happened we could go to 38 weeks! :)

Girls are growing!!

Today we meet with our specialist.

Everything is going pretty good! The girls are growing great!

Ruby (a) weighs 3 pounds 9 ounces and Mable (b) weighs 3 pounds 2 ounces!!!

We were ecstatic when we found out how much they have grown!

All these extra calories are defiantly working in their favor.

I did go down to a 1.8, but Dr. Jones felt it was ok, since I am not having any contractions.

We did a FFT and it came back negative (this is the test that shows a possibility of me going into labor in the next 2 weeks). He did say that in the next week or two the Terbutaline, that I take for contractions will stop working, my body will become immune to it. At that time IF I start having contractions he will put me in the hospital for 72 hours and give me magnesium. I have heard this stuff is pretty terrible and makes you very sick, but does help stop labor. He also said that at that time IF I dilated to 4 he would go ahead and deliver the babies, but prior to delivering he would give me another steroid shot to help with the girls lungs. He thinks that they would be fine, but small. Again, these are all IF's.

We talked about a date, Jan. 3, but of course did not schedule anything. We will just see how I'm doing at that point, if I can go longer then we will.

I am still on modify bed rest, which is really like house arrest, but he did give me permission to go to dinner tomorrow night to celebrate Eric's 30th Bday! So exciting! Getting out of the house! :)

Bed rest is still going pretty good, since I work from home I just sit in bed or on the couch with my laptop. I actually think I am getting more done by staying in one spot all day verses moving about. Being busy with work makes the day go by faster.

At night time we normally eat dinner, watch a movie or one of our TV shows. Not sure what we will do when we have watched everything on Netflick's and our shows are done for the season?

Everyday is a day closer to meeting Ruby and Mable! We are looking forward to the day of meeting their sweet faces! Until then we will Sit and wait :)