Shot Shot Shot

We got an update on the babies progress. Andrew and I were in another room visiting Derek and Amy Demaret on Thursday who was here to deliver their baby boy. There was a knock on the door and it was my nurse coming to get me, because our doctor was in our room wanting to talk to us. Andrew was here with me so that was good that he got to hear everything she had to say. She wanted to check and see if I was dilated anymore and talk about the medicine I am taking.

She checked me and I was dilated still about the same (2-3). So this was a good thing that I hadn't really dilated much more. I have however effaced more. I am now 80% effaced and she could feel baby Keaton's head and said he was sitting very low. My cervix is thinned out to 1.7 so she didn't feel the progesterone cervical gel was working anymore. The question to talk about was to stay on the gel since it won't hurt anything or to stop the gel. She and my other doctor talked and I am still going to use the gel. It would be great if it would start working again. She said they really aaren't concerned with my cervical length anymore since we made it to 28 weeks. Now they are more concerned with contractions and dilation. I asked if there was any chance we can still make it to 36 weeks and she said there is still that opportunity but it is just a day by day thing. She was very pleased that we have made it this far. She said the boys have already beaten the odds......this sure made daddy and mommy happy! I think these boys are always going to be strong willed and will grow up to do wonderful things in life.

I felt really good all day yesterday and in the evening time I started to feel a little crampy, but didn't think much about it. I am not on the contraction monitor anymore. They monitor me for contractions twice a day for an hour at a time. If I start to feel the contractions then they will hook me up to the monitor to see. They monitor the babies for an hour at a time once a day. So they hooked me up to the monitor for an hour and the nurse came into the room with a shot of Turb and said they would see how that works, but they were planning to go ahead and give me another shot of it in an hour. I had nine in one hour and they don't want me to have more than six in an hour. I didn't seem to shake as much with this round of shots. I was really worried about it since they were giving me two of them. I don't know if this means I am getting used to it or what. This morning I didn't really feel Kendall moving that much, which gave me a little scare. I asked the nurse to check his heartbeat and it was fine. She said he was probably sleeping and the bigger I get the less I will feel them move. Glad I asked, because that made me feel much better about the situation.

As of today everything is looking good, so hopefully I will get some sleep tonight. Tomorrow there is a huge rummage sale here at St. Mary's for multiples. I asked my nurse if we could wheel down there and she said she would see. If I can't go, I am sending daddy rummage sale shopping. I am also looking forward to Sunday. It should be a good weekend!

I have been having thoughts here this week of really wanting to be home. I figured it would start to set in and it has a little more. I am staying strong for these boys though. It is just crazy to think that I have been here for 44 days. I told Andrew that even in college I never stayed away from home for that long. I guess there really is "no place like home". Each week we are here is very good for the boys. Looking at these little sets of clothes hanging in my room makes me get through each day and knowing that we have something very special in the end that nobody can take away from us. Sunday will be a full 29 weeks and starting the 30th week. I will keep everyone posted!