A New Chapter

So, yesterday I checked into the hospital for my 6 week stay!  Even though I am here, it is still a little surreal to wrap my head around being here for that long.  I have started another blog (yikes!  I'm not even that great with this one!) to specifically document this journey that our family is taking. Hopefully it will lessen the overwhelming number of questions that mostly Korby will get about how I am doing and especially for once the twins are born to document their progress.  The address is: http://2littlelees.blogspot.com/ and I will hopefully get a link up to it on the side of my blog here.  While I am in the hospital I will still be updating this blog.  It will mostly be back posting everything that I haven't gotten around to writing or posting pictures about.  So check back on both for regular updates~ remember I have nothing but a whole lot of time these days :)  Quick baby update~ they are both doing great!!!!!!!

We have a date

Korby and I met with our maternal fetal ob yesterday and also one of the neonatologists (NICU doctors) yesterday during my appointment.  I am now 23 weeks and both babies still are looking great!  Yahoo!!!!!  Neither one is showing signs of any problems and they are both still the same size~ so 2 very positive indicators that everything is going as well as possible at this point.  As soon as the neonatologist sat down to talk to us, I got teary eyed.  All of my previous appointments have been left with "everything looks good for now, but we will talk more once/if we get closer to when the babies are viable."  Now all of the sudden we are "here"~ at the point where we are talking about the quality of life these little ones will have depending on how early they are born.  It was just overwhelming to realize that we have just about made it to a major mile stone in this pregnancy.    


It was decided that I will be going inpatient on Monday July 23rd (as long as there is a room available)!  Yikes!!!!  That is just 2 1/2 short weeks away.  I already have so many different lists going~ what to pack, what I need to buy, what books and movies I want in the hospital, babysitting for the kids, what I want to do before going into the hospital, lists of how and when to do different household chores (for Korby), and I am sure I will have more as the time passes.  Is it lame that I get excited about organizing things?!?  Oh well.....  At the same time I am also learning that I am going to have to let go of the reins (at least a little).  So what if Korby doesn't clean the bathroom the same as I would~ as long as it gets done I have to be okay with it.


Something my doctor told me that I am really excited about is that as long as they babies continue to do well, I will not be confined to full bed rest.  After reading a number of blogs of women who have had mo-mo twins there is a very broad range of inpatient stay~ from being monitored a couple of times a day with no restrictions on movement the rest of the time... all the way to full bed rest without even bathroom privileges.  So, I will at least get to start off on the least restrictive end of the spectrum~ which includes being able to go outside!!!!!  You have no idea how excited I was to hear that!!!!   I might even push my luck and ask if I am allowed to leave the hospital for an hour or two, but that might be pushing my luck :)  



All in all, I am amazed at how well this pregnancy has gone so far.  We still know that everything could change literally in a heartbeat tomorrow.  But yesterday was a good day and an encouraging day with the doctors and that will keep us going for the next 2 1/2 weeks.  Thank you for all the prayers and thoughts~ I know they are helping us get through this.   

Me and my girls at 23 weeks

I am already almost as big as I was full term with Vivian!  Yikes!!!!