33 weeks 2 days: Brainstorming

The last couple days have been pretty calm - which is great. We were able to chat with our doctor and all agreed that I will be staying in the hospital until these little ones are born. Honestly, I find this reassuring as the last thing I would want to happen is to be at home and have babies start falling out of me ;)

Today we had our weekly ultrasound. Everyone looks good and scores 100% on the 5 biophysical criteria. They also estimated weights for each baby. Alpha is estimated to be 4lbs 10oz, Beta 4lbs 2oz, Gamma 4lbs 6oz. Most of the books say that babies typically weigh 4lbs 8oz in their 33rd week, so Beta and Gamma are a little under weight, but of course the ultrasound is only an estimate. Brant also pointed out that since they just measure three body parts to estimate the weight, if anything the weights are likely to be underestimated rather than overestimated. Regardless I continue to try to eat hospital food with other food snuck in by Brant and Nicole. In this ultrasound we have also confirmed once again that Alpha is breech. Beta and Gamma are head down, but since Alpha is the lowest baby and is breech I am for sure having a c-section whenever it is time. It is pretty rare to be able to deliver all three triplets without a c-section and honestly I think I'd prefer to have just one exit path rather than two - so at least I know a c-section is on the way. In the ultrasound it is nearly impossible for us to decipher the body parts of one baby compared to another as they all overlap, so they don't even bother giving us pictures anymore because they really can't isolate a profile shot at all. The cutest thing we saw today during the ultrasound was when the tech was able to get all three heads together. Since Alpha is breech (head up) and Beta and Gamma are head down, all three of their little heads are stacked on top of each other in an upside down triangle shape. It is pretty cute. I declared it a brainstorming session. I think they are all in negotiations trying to decide when they want to be born - hopefully at least another week or so.

I am going to continue on the anti-contraction medicine until Monday and then according to our doctor, when things progress naturally we will not stop them. So while my goal still is 35 weeks or really as long as possible, everyone seems ecstatic if I can make it to 34 weeks. Heck they are all pretty happy I am already at 33 weeks and of course Brant and I are just happy we made it into June and now each day is a blessing.