30 Week Dr Appt

The babies are looking wonderful!!! It is such a relief to see them and hear their hearts beating!
Our little boy weighs 3lbs 2oz and is measuring 29 weeks 4 days.
Our little girl weighs 3lbs 1oz and is measuring 29 weeks 2 days.
The specialists are very pleased with their weights and measurements! I am in awe that I have over 6 lbs of baby in me! None of the boys were over 7 lbs and together they are getting close to 7lbs. Its just crazy to me at how big I am getting and will get!!

My cervix is measuring nice and long!! Yea!

The fluid around our little girl is looking perfect right now. Our little boy still has a little too much fluid - still nothing to be concerned about BUT still something we are keeping a close watch on.

I took my 3rd and last 3 hour gestational diabetes test Thursday. I got the results today and ... I passed the fasting test- which means no immediate medicine. However I failed the rest of the test but just barely. So we are back to multiple finger pricks and diet control. He's hoping that at least for a bit I can diet control the diabetes! I am hoping so too!

Weight gain - still no gain! Yea me!

Alex and I went on a maternity tour last Tuesday and I brought up a few concerns to the specialist: no special care nursery - and after he chuckled a bit and insisted he really needed to write a book about a pregnant woman's fears he assured me that the nurses were wonderful and Noone would steal my babies if I was alone with them and he actually really understood my fears about being alone at night but was insistent that all would be ok! Plus after posting on facebook my fears i had some wonderful friends offer to stay with me and the babies at night so Alex could be home with the boys! The specialist also told me that there will be a team for each baby in the delivery room (OR) to check them out and care for them. I love that they each have their own team and will have individualized attention!! He also said that he'd love me to make my scheduled csection at 37 weeks BUT if my water breaks or I start having contractions at 34 weeks we will not stop anything and we will go ahead and deliver.

I am now seeing the Specialist every week. One week for ultrasound and diabetes and bp monitoring, the next week for a non stress test and diabetes and Bp check. Oh plus the OB every 2 weeks also. Yikes!!!

I can't believe that in 7 short weeks (at the latest) that I will be holding my precious babes in my arms! So many emotions! Excitement to see their faces and kiss their cheeks, terror at the thought of 5 children -3 under the age of 2, scared to death to be cut open for the 3rd time and hoping that my body is put back together easily, sadness at the end of my carrying babies, and joy that our family is so wonderfully complete - complete in a way that I had only ever dreamed possible!