Surprise surprise!
The babies have earned every 8 hour monitoring!!! WHOOOOHOOOOO!!!!! I couldn’t believe it. I am going to sleep for 8 whole hours!!! Thank you JESUS!
Category Archives: hospital stay
Husband and Father of the Year
I found this in my inbox this morning:
Good morning my Love,
I hope you are getting good rest now. I am so proud of how you have been doing and how strong you have been. I know this has been tough on you and all of us but it is getting close to the end and that is such an overwhelmingly great thing. I know you have inspired so many with your attitude, outlook, and strength. I would have never dreamed of this circumstance being in our lives but we have fought through it and soon we will see just how much more awesome our family will be. It has really been a testing time but I know that God knows what we can handle and constantly amazes us. When God stretches us, you seem to go further than you ever thought.
I can not wait for you and our new babies to be home! It really shows you through all of this how much we really depend on each other and love each other. I miss you so much. We have such a great family and God has blessed us with an even larger one than we imagined. It is amazing that the night we went to dinner and I saw that big family and God put it in my heart to want that. LOL. I never did before and then out of the blue, God gives me those desires right before he sets us in the path for the big family. I really love you so much and am so grateful for you. I know that we say that often at home but it has even more meaning now that we see just what each other totally means to one another. You really are my world. You are an awesome wife and an amazing mother. Mother of Zion. How right on can a prophecy be?
God has big things in store for us. I have always felt it. I believe we are right on the edge of some pretty amazing times. It is going to be awesome to walk with you through it along with having our 3 girls and seeing what part they play. They are going to be all 3 incredible. God has a big plan for them! I can’t wait to see what it is.
I miss you. I miss you. So many things we take for granted. Life is very very good with you by my side. I always have known that but this makes it even more real. You were and always will be the perfect person for me. God knew that from the beginning of time. There was no other. Always and forever you. I am sooo excited about our family and what it is becoming. This is AMAZING!
I love you my babe and I can’t wait to get you home and just love all over you and my babies.
Love, BJ
Top 10 Things I can’t wait to do
when I get out of the hospital
(Aside from spending loads of time with my friends and family because that is the biggest given EVER)
10. Chow down on some amazing chips and salsa at one of my favorite Mexican food restaurants
9. Take Hayden to a pumpkin patch and to the children’s museum
8. Decorate my house for the holidays
7. Sleep on my stomach
6. Go to a movie
5. Eat whatever I want and not worry about my blood sugar!
4. Get back in shape
3. Take a bath and not come out smelling like freaky smelling water
2. Take walks
1. Get my hair cut and colored
Pushing ahead to 30!!!
Today marks my 26th day here in the hospital, which finally puts me at less days to go then how many I’ve been here. I only have 23 more days to D-day!!! Whoohoo!!!
The babies have been doing really well these past few days with very few decels. Because of that I have got to skip two nights of monitoring at 3 am!! It has been glorious to sleep 5 solid hours at one time!!! On the other hand I have been having lots of contractions off and on. The doctors have been monitoring them and he told me this morning that if I keep having them and they get regular about 2-3 minutes apart, but I don’t start dialating they will give me drugs to try and stop them. (Which I am hoping I get to skip out on because I hear the drugs make you feel aweful). But he said that if I do start dialating at all, then they will just deliver me. I had never really even thought about that. So I’m hoping my body just calms down and doesn’t try to evict the little ones before its time. Though I know whenever they are born is the perfect time, because God already knows.
I’m so glad we are coming up on 30 weeks. There are so many health issues that are reduced after 30 weeks. And that was my own personal goal and here it is so close!! I can’t wait for you all to see them and know their names and know that all of your prayers have helped bring these girls into the world.
Almost to 29!
Today I had my ultrasound and it was so great to see the girls again. I have more face pictures, but still no way to scan them. So you will all just have to wait and see their beauty until they emerge from my womb. Baby A weighed in at 2lbs. 5oz and Baby B weighed 2lbs. 11oz. Nearly a full pound weight gain for baby b since I have been here! Those weights were so great to hear that we are out of the 1lb. range. And I have gained two pounds so at least I am gaining a little, thought that is probably mostly babies.
They also picked a for sure date for my C-section. November 13 it is. I am on the schedule that day, so I will either be at 8, 9:30 or 11. Not sure on the time yet, though I’m hoping for the early one so we can get this show on the road.
Another good thing that happened is that my every 72 hour blood draws got cancelled. PRAISE THE LORD! I hate getting stuck and every 72 hours leaves your veins pretty sore. My specialist saw my arm today and it has a big bruise on it from one of my draws and he was not happy with the fact that they were drawing them so frequently. He was also concerned that by the time I got to delivery my veins would be so worn down that they wouldn’t be able to give me an IV. So he used his big man on campus authority to shut them down. I was thrilled. The reason they were doing it so frequently is because of some weird policy that you have to have a clot on file in case of emergency but they only last 72 hours, so since I’m here for so long they keep having to redraw and redraw and redraw. Very annoying and painful. So no more of that nonsense.
Last night was another rough night with continuous monitoring and a nurse that was about to drive me legally insane. So I didn’t sleep much at all. This morning I looked like a zombie so I have been sleeping most of the day since I returned from my ultrasound. It was so nice to get to go over to the doctor. I had a nice wheelchair ride and got to see the world for a change and get out of my little cave for a while.
So that’s about it for now. I’m hanging in here. We love the name guesses!! Keep them coming! If all goes well then I will try to have another clue up tomorrow.
Day 20
Wow…writing that number seems so weird. I feel like I have been here an eternity. I am almost to my halfway mark on my hospital stay! I have 29 days to go. Today my doctors were supposed to have a meeting and schedule my C-section and put it in the surgery book. So I still asked for November 13, which will put me a few days over 32 weeks, so hopefully I will have a definite day in the next couple of days. They wanted to give me something definite to look forward to.
I had an ultrasound Sunday and both babies are now head down, which neither have been this entire pregnancy. Hayden was head down the whole time. So maybe that means my body is telling them its nearly the end. My stomach is oh so heavy feeling and the kicks are getting harder and harder. My whole stomach lurches now when both babies are awake. 🙂
I have another ultrasound on Wednesday and they will be measuring and weighing the babies, so I am anxious to see how big they have gotten. They have been doing so well. A few decels here and there, but nothing that is getting into a pattern, so that is good.
For those of you who are praying, I have a specific need for sleep. Since I am being monitored now every 4 hours for one hour, minimum, I am getting little to no sleep. I can get no more than 2 hours at a time so it has been very hard on my poor tired little body. So please pray that God will multiply my hours as I get them and allow me to stay refreshed and healthy.
I’ll be posting a new baby clue tomorrow 🙂 don’t forget that we are giving you the letters to the first and middle names…..so guess away!!
Best news in a long time!!!
Day 16
Today we got news that it looks like our insurance is going to pay for everything in regards to my hospital stay. We have been believing for this and trusting that whatever the outcome that God was going to take care of us. And He has once again. We are so thankful and excited about this. Thanks for everyone that has been praying with us on this. We are just believing that now everything flows very easily with no kinks.
While I’m posting I’ll give a quick update. My blood sugars have been coming out great. I’m always under my limit so the diet is working. The babies are doing well. We had another big decel today and I had to get on oxygen for a little while, but the heartrate came back up and stayed up so that was good.
My stomach is getting so so heavy and miserable to walk around for too long. But I try to take little walks to keep my legs from turning to jelly.
Anyway…that is pretty much it 🙂
Hayden visits mommy 🙂
This is a picture from this weekend when Hayden and BJ and his parents came and visited me for Hayden’s birthday. We had a pizza party and it was so fun to see her and let her know that I am still alive!
Then my wonderful husband surprised me last night and just showed up to hang out for the evening. I really needed that! Tara also stopped by to see me and we got to catch up.
Freedom and Food
So yesterday we had our first and hopefully last scare with a decel on one of the babies. It was pretty scary and finally her heart rate came back up. Well since that happened I was not allowed to come off of the monitors. So yesterday from 1:30pm until this morning at 8 I was on the monitors. That is including all night long, which made sleeping a joke. I think I slept in 40 minute intervals. That is no good for a sleepy mamma! But the babies did good all that time and didn’t decel again so I got to get off this morning. I went straight to the shower and then straight to sleep. I was so sore from laying in the same position that whole time.
Then I got my GTT tests back this morning and I am positive for gestational diabetes. I was bummed. So they are altering my diet and hoping that takes care of it. I have to have 4 finger sticks daily starting today. One thing I was not aware of is that having diabetes during pregnancy puts me at high risk for having them afterwards as well. So be praying that as soon as I am not pregnant that the diabetes goes away as well.
Another weird thing is that I have lost 8lbs. since I’ve been in the hospital. So that only brings me to a total of 7lbs. gained total. So now I have to be weighed 2 times a week to make sure that I start gaining weight. I couldn’t believe it. I never expected to lose weight.
This week I’ll be 28 weeks and that is another milestone! Now I’m going for 30.
Anyway…that’s the scoop 🙂 One of the moms on my floor had her baby today. She has been here for over 2 months. How exciting!! I can’t wait until it is my turn to have my babies and end my captivity. I’m so ready to be home with my family.
Day 10
Hello outside world! I’m still here and alive…though I feel like it is barely. I haven’t really posted an update on me and the babes because we’ve had the intense name game going on and I just really haven’t had much time to blog.
No time?? you might ask. Yes, many of you out there probably think I am just sitting here, vegging, watching TV and just waiting…well that is far from the case. I thought that is how it would be and I thought I’d be bored out of my mind, but this is the real situation folks. The doctor wanted to order that I be put on constant monitoring 24/7. But after the first try of that we all realized that was just next to impossible. The babies move entirely too much and they can’t just strap a monitor on me and leave. No. they have to stay here and move the monitors all over my stomach for hours on end and it is so exhausting and grueling. sometimes we’ll catch the babes at a good time and they put me on and I get monitored for an hour, no big deal. But other times, it takes up to two hours just to find two different heartbeats and then we just hope they will be still enough for them to trace their heartbeats on the monitor for long enough to make sure they are ok. Since they are in there together, and still small they move around alot and hide from us. So instead I am on every 4 hour monitoring. This includes during the night.
So right now I am exhausted because I had to get monitored all throughout the night starting last night. I wish I could sleep during them, but that just is wishful thinking. So pray for me to get rest. They come in and out of my room so many times a day, drawing blood, taking vitals, monitoring, that really, I hardly can catch a 1 hour nap even if I wanted to.
I also failed my diabetes test the other day, so they are going to do the next one on Sunday and hopefully I will pass that one so I don’t have to go on a special diet, or worse, insulin injections. These babes are working me over, that’s for sure.
Today I had another terrible “Target” incident. I was sitting on my bed and all of the sudden out of nowhere my blood pressure dropped way down, i felt light-headed, nauseated, my whole body felt faint and couldn’t keep my eyes open. The nurse was there and immediately paged the doctor and they were trying to keep me alert, while hooking me up to all sorts of stuff. I was near the black out stage when suddenly I barfed everywhere. No warning….I felt so bad for the nurse helping me and I actually apologized between heaves. lol. So they don’t know what happened, but I am really getting sick of these situations. They scare me so bad and I feel like my body is shutting down on me and it scares me for the babies. But they did fine through all of it. So hopefully that will never happen again because I hate it. It always makes me feel like I am dying.
So right now I am just trying to take care of my body and allow it to sustain these babies. This pregnancy has been so crazy. It seems with Hayden everything went perfect, with me and her. And this time around, everything is high risk, and there is so much going wrong with me and it seems like I can’t get a break. So just pray for renewed strength for me and for no more incidents like today and for these babies to keep doing well like they have been. I’ve been having a few low grade contractions here and there but nothing severe. And the babies are having some decels, but again, nothing severe. We just pray that they stay inconsistent and then we will have no cause to get them out earlier than planned.
I love you all and really appreciate the emails and messages and encouragement. I don’t answer my phone very often because I am so tired that I usually turn it off, but emails and messages are great. They make me feel like I am still connected with the world. I’m trying to get rested enough to stop putting off you that have asked to come visit. But its just not like I thought it was going to be. It is way more involved and exhausting and having visitors right now is too much for me. keep asking though! I’ll let you know when it is a good time, I promise! Oh and when you do come, dress warmly…I keep my air on 55 and everyone says its so cold in here, but I am always hot. 🙂
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