29 weeks

Just a quick update on how this week has been!

I had two biophysical profile scans this week. I will have two a week from here on out because they are watching very closely for any signs of distress in the babies, especially C. BPPs are ultrasounds that check the babies' fluid, movement, heart rate, and breathing.  All 3 babies scored 100% on Monday's BPP, although we had to sit and watch and wait for B and C to finally breathe, which took about 10-15 minutes of waiting.  At today's scan, A and B got a perfect score but C only scored 6 out of 8 - he wouldn't breathe for us. Not too worrisome at this point, especially since B and C were busy fighting while we watched and waited. That was pretty cute.


I don't normally blog here about my two other awesome kids but I have to include a little tidbit just in case I don't get around to writing this in my personal journal. My baby girl started 1st grade this week and boy has that been tough for me, though she is loving it! It's so lonely without her at home. She has been such an amazing helper all summer. She cleans (if this pregnancy hadn't happened, I doubt I would have ever known that 5/6 year olds are capable of doing the laundry!), takes care of her brother (and me too), and keeps me entertained. :o) I miss her personality and her imagination. I don't miss her torturing her little brother, however. It has been blissfully quiet during the day. I guess I should enjoy that while I can!

It's also tough waking up early and having to immediately get moving. It's been an exhausting couple of days. I have two wonderful friends who pick her up and take her home every day. I don't know what I would do without them. It's hard for me not being able to be there for my girl but I know she is in good hands all day long. 

She seems to be starting a habit of having eventful 1st days of school, however. On the first day of Kindergarten I got a phone call from her teacher after school to tell me that my daughter had yelled at her in class. Luckily, after a week, she was used to having to listen to somebody besides Mom and Dad and she had high behavior marks the rest of the year.

No phone call home came with the first day of 1st grade, thank goodness. Only a note from the nurses' office that she had suffered a minor head injury. My goodness! Apparently she fell off of the monkey bars and slammed her head. Luckily, the nurse is a friend of mine, so when I got the note that she had been hurt, I knew that she had been in good hands. I don't want to know what the first day of 2nd grade will bring, though!

Next Tuesday marks 30 weeks. My doctor said today that because of C, he's hoping I make it to 36 weeks. And then he apologized and said if I made it that far I would be truly miserable. He also said that C is really the one calling the shots, however, and that I should be prepared to be sent to the hospital at a moments' notice should the doctors decide it's time. He told me they (my OB and my Peri) talk about me all the time. I'm not used to that kind of attention but it also makes me feel very secure.  It will be interesting to see how this all plays out!