A recap of the past 12 weeks, part three

Dave and I went to see our new doctor and just loved him. He spent well over an hour talking with us about mulitple pregnancies and addressing our questions. We scheduled an ultrasound at the hospital on their "big" machine for December 10th. I had bought a few books on mulitples and began reading which helped ease my worries of how my body would handle it and what I can do to make sure they are as healthy as possible. We knew that they would be born prematurely and were slowly dealing with that- the thought of leaving the hospital without your baby/babies is scary and sad. One of the main ways to ensure the health of our little ones was to add calories to my diet. I will not say the amount of weight I am to gain, but I will be a large marge when this is all over! I am trying to eat as many good calories as possible but I haven't felt good for quite some time and it's hard to eat.

At our ultrasound on Dec. 10th we were excited and nervous. We had not seen the little angels in a few weeks and were wondering how things were progressing. We were thrilled to see all three and they finally looked like babies- with heads, arms, legs etc. The technician made us a video of them and it's so hilarious. Babies A and B are active and moving around and Baby C is laying there with what looks like an arm behind it's tiny head and the only movement is the heartbeat. That is when it all hit home for us that all three are fine and will make it through the pregnancy. We finally officially felt we had triplets!!!!!!! A doctor from the practice came in to go over the ultrasound again and she told us that each baby had it's own home (amniotic sac) and own refigerator (placenta) and that is wonderful sign that all three will grow at an even pace and the outlook is very good. We are so happy to have an instantly large family and we are fighting over who gets which baby already! I keep reminding Dave and Elle if they claim a baby they have to keep it, at all times, no matter what. That means the little one goes to school, work, job sites, prom whatever! I will hopefully be able to post pics and the video soon.