Today marks 26 weeks and I go back to the quote from my husband "babies born at 26 weeks have a 95% chance of survival." (Not sure where he found the statistic, but I choose to use it as hope for this week.)
I had an OB appointment and it was HORRIBLE. Not that the outcome was necessarily horrible, but the experience was awful. I waited OVER an hour and a half to see my OB and then once I did he was a grouch, I am sorry, but sitting in the waiting room for an hour and then a hard chair for 30 minutes is NOT
bedrest. I had a few questions I wanted to ask and I was afraid to ask them. He was so grouchy he wasn't even going to look at the boys, just my cervix. My cervix has remained stable for yet another week. We discovered that the OB was measuring differently then the Peri. With his measurement I was again at a 2.3, but then he measured how he thinks the Peri is measuring at it was still a 1.5. Stability for 3 weeks is good in my opinion, now just give me stability for 7 - 10 more please.
My belly is measuring 33 weeks, I thought it would be measuring farther along because I feel huge. Our beautiful boys were doing well after I pushed to take a little look at them. Then the OB chose to bring some doom and gloom and told me that he has confidence that I would make it past 28 weeks, but doesn't feel I will make it much further than 32 weeks. Wow, I knew it was reality, but to have him say that to me was hard... not to mention he was NOT comforting, because again he was a GROUCH. My
appt. next time is with a different OB in the office as per my request.
I am trying to prepare myself for the reality of the
NICU, I know that I will probably not be coming home with my boys, and I know that my boys are going to have a long bumpy road ahead of them. I have joined a FF message board of
NICU moms and they are a wealth of knowledge. All we can do is hope for one day at a time and pray for the health of our boys. Lets prove this OB wrong and make it to 36 weeks!
But Dad, Mommy lays here all day long, why can't we?
Auntie Heather to the rescue!
They are five piece preemie outfits, on the back side is a cute blue sleeper.
Grammy (my Mom) to the rescue!
Yes, these are preemie outfits. No hats, but we discovered that the hats from above could be flipped inside out and the blue matches. LOVE IT!
New
blankies from Grammy
Oopppsss some how these got flipped and I don't have the energy to go fix them.
Sorry again. You can guess who bought these. DADDY!
For our little cowboys
Daddy picked these up too, he like things with monkeys on them.
The boys closet, told ya we got a lot of hand me downs
Hats
Bibs
Socks, I know nuts huh? How on earth could they possibly wear this many socks?
Shoes
Onesies
0-3 & 3-6 clothes for the dresser which my Dad bought today
6-9 month clothes to pack away. Huge thanks to my Mom for organizing all of this.
9 months + clothes to pack away.
Yes, it was a little sad to not be able to do all this myself, but I am so thankful to my Mom for doing it for me. I wouldn't feel comfortable bossing anyone else around like that. We are set on the clothes, now all we need is "stuff!"
I had an OB appointment and it was HORRIBLE. Not that the outcome was necessarily horrible, but the experience was awful. I waited OVER an hour and a half to see my OB and then once I did he was a grouch, I am sorry, but sitting in the waiting room for an hour and then a hard chair for 30 minutes is NOT bedrest. I had a few questions I wanted to ask and I was afraid to ask them. He was so grouchy he wasn't even going to look at the boys, just my cervix. My cervix has remained stable for yet another week. We discovered that the OB was measuring differently then the Peri. With his measurement I was again at a 2.3, but then he measured how he thinks the Peri is measuring at it was still a 1.5. Stability for 3 weeks is good in my opinion, now just give me stability for 7 - 10 more please.
My belly is measuring 33 weeks, I thought it would be measuring farther along because I feel huge. Our beautiful boys were doing well after I pushed to take a little look at them. Then the OB chose to bring some doom and gloom and told me that he has confidence that I would make it past 28 weeks, but doesn't feel I will make it much further than 32 weeks. Wow, I knew it was reality, but to have him say that to me was hard... not to mention he was NOT comforting, because again he was a GROUCH. My appt. next time is with a different OB in the office as per my request.
I am trying to prepare myself for the reality of the NICU, I know that I will probably not be coming home with my boys, and I know that my boys are going to have a long bumpy road ahead of them. I have joined a FF message board of NICU moms and they are a wealth of knowledge. All we can do is hope for one day at a time and pray for the health of our boys. Lets prove this OB wrong and make it to 36 weeks!
But Dad, Mommy lays here all day long, why can't we?
Yes, these are preemie outfits. No hats, but we discovered that the hats from above could be flipped inside out and the blue matches. LOVE IT!