Home Sweet Home!

I just arrived home about 30 minutes ago and it feels so good to be here! I had an ultrasound with my high risk doctor yesterday and my cervix was measuring 4.4 cm, which was great! The babies all looked perfect. So this morning Dr. Kaye, the attending physician and my OB's partner discharged me! I am so so glad to be home for another couple of weeks!

I have been admitted :(

Unfortunately I am writing from my room in Antepartum at the hospital. It is so hard to be here right now because I am literally here for nothing.

Yesterday I was laying on the couching and kept feeling some tightening in my belly. They started coming every couple of minutes. They werent painful but I thought I should call just to be safe. The on call doc up here was very nice but is extremely cautious and told me to come in.
I came in and found out that the braxton hicks had stopped and my uterus was just getting irritated from the rapid growth I guess. So they had me lay on my side and started IV fluids. Immediately I was fine and have been fine since. So obviously my high risk doc was out having a hay day because he never came in to check on me. So they decided to admit me until he could check everything out. Last night was really tough and Trever and I really took it hard because we just felt like being here was pointless. At this point they dont have me hooked up to any monitors.

So today, we are still waiting on my high risk doctor to do an ultrasound and who knows when he will be coming in. I feel like I want to get up, get dressed, and walk right out. I have been so good at home and received lots of praise from both of my doctors..

So we are hoping a praying that they will let me go home tomorrow but they quite possibly they could keep me here for the long haul just so I can be babysat.

Sorry for the vent, I am just so frusterated!

Into week 20!!

Yay I am so happy that I am going into the twenties! At the end of the twenties, it will be crunch time and the babies could potentially come at any time! I am just so excited for all that is to come! For some reason, in my heart, I really feel like I am going to defy the odds and make it far into this pregnancy! I know that we could not do it without all of the prayers and support we have gotted from you all!

You know, I really do have to say that this experience is amazing! I love to think of all the blessings that are to come.

Well here is the update for the babies this week.

Baby's digestive system is busy creating meconium (a tarry black substance made of swallowed amniotic fluid, digestive secretion and dead cells), which will fill the first diaper after birth. And, speaking of the diaper situation... baby's genitals are now fully formed!

We had an appointment this morning and it was another amazing appointment! My cervix grew again! It grew from a 4.7 to a 4.87 this week! I just cannot believe how much we are being blessed! All of the babies looked fabulous and they were very active this morning. I have gained 10 pounds in the last two weeks! Crazy huh? I told you I wasnt playing around about gaining the recommended 45 pounds by 20 weeks! I am up to 30 and my goal is to gain 10 more pounds by my next appointment on December 5th! And with a yummy Thanksgiving dinner to eat, I have a feeling that wont be a problem!!!

As for how I have been feeling, by the night time I feel like I am going to explode! The doctor checked my uterus and it is measuring 28 weeks in the morning so I am sure by the nighttime I am like 35 weeks! My belly button feels like it is being split open. Bed rest makes you really really sore so by the time I get into bed I just toss and turn for an hour.

On a positive note, I am feeling the babies more and more. Trever still cannot feel them but hopefully that will come soon! We are making great headway on all of the things we need for these babies!

Well, I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving!!! We love you all!

19 Weeks! Coming right up!!!

Well let me just say that today's appointment has put me on cloud 9. It was really really amazing. It was a 2 hour ultrasound that measured every anatomical part of each of our babies. The heart chambers, head, brain, arms, thighs, feet, toes, hands, fingers, and bellies. And the miracle of it is that they are all 100% perfect! I just really am so deeply in love with them!

I was really really nervous about my cervical length measurement because that could be considered the most important factor in determining when my hospital stay will begin! As I have previously mentioned, 2 weeks ago it was a 3.8, last week it grew to a 4.1 (which is great), and this week it was a whopping 4.7!!! We were so ecstatic! This bedrest is really paying off and I am really getting the assurance that all of this lying down is helping! 34 weeks here we come!

We also got some fantastic news from our high risk doctor today! Well, as you all know, we have really been hoping to avoid me living at the hospital until after Christmas. Unfortunately, we have been told that at 24 weeks (Christmas Eve) I will be there to stay until the babies are born. Well he told us that he will be out of town until the 29th of December!!! So this means I will not be going in until at least 25 weeks! We are so ecstatic! I get to spend my Christmas home with little Eva and my hunk Trever (as long as I stay on my best behavior lol :)). I really have a positive attitude about everything now and I am looking forward to this new family we will have!

I figured we were overdue for a belly pic so here it goes!

I have gained a total of 25 pounds as of today so I feel like I am doing pretty good. I am starting to feel the babies a whole lot more so that has been really neat!

All of the babies weighed 8 ounces except for Parker who was 9 ounces! You go boy!

And here are the pics of the babies today!

Dahlia

Preston

Parker





Madelyn

Last weekend Trever's Mother, grandmother, and some of their friends threw us a baby shower down in Austin! It was so wonderful and there were so many wonderful women that came to support us! Thank you to all of you who took the time out to help us! We truly appreciate it! And again, to my hosts, you ladies are amazing! Thanks so much and you are welcome in our home any time!

My hosts (My beautiful mother in law in the blue)

Some of my wonderful friends decided to nix a night on the town that they had planned and instead they spent girl's night in my living room last night! We all ordered sushi (I had cooked of course) and talked about some really interesting things :) lol!! I just wanted to personally thank Neysa, Jennifer, Jessica, Melissa, Cindy, Amy, Carrie, Mandie, and Mindy for doing that for me! It really meant so much!

Thank you to everyone who has brought meals and given us things for our babies! Casey, Kristi, Neysa, Holly, Melanie, and Anita Bell we cannot thank you enough!

Eva and her cousins Gavin and Sierra

Eva cooking mommy dinner! Daddy's favorite Sous Chef

Eva and Ally

We are finishing up our volunteer lists so if you are interested, make sure you email me at jkingheritage@yahoo.com. These are being compiled only for after the babies are home as of right now! Thanks to you all!

In my 18th week now!

I had to start with these beautiful blues! Goodness girl, where do you get your good looks :)?!

I am so very excited to be in my 18th week! There is just something about that number that makes me feel good lol! Maybe because that was the age I felt all grown and stuff lol! Little did I know............

So I really hate this sweet potato picture especially since it has hairs on it lol! Believe me our babies are alot cuter than this right now!

Today we had the most amazing appointment! First of all thanks to Tanna for watching Eva! Trever now has to wheel me in a wheelchair everywhere and it would be so difficult with Eva. I gained 4 pounds from my last appointment which I was so so happy about! That puts right at a total gained of 19 pounds! Dr. Luke says that 45 pounds by week 20 is optimal but I am hoping to really tack some on in the next couple of weeks. I feel good about my progress so far!

So then we had an ultrasound and the babies have grown so much from even last week!!! At one point in the ultrasound, Madelyn headbutted Parker. You could tell he got mad because before she did it his hand was in a fist by his face and when she hit him he opened up his hand and reached it in her direction! It was really so cute! I always tell Trever that our girls our going to be the fiesty ones (just like him) and the boys are going to be the sweet ones (just like me) lol ha ha ha!!! JK.......

So as you all know from the last post that I am on home bedrest now. I am so so so so glad I got put on it this early because last week my cervix length was at 3.8 and this week it grew to 4.1! The doctor was ecstatic! I really think this early bedrest is going to buy me hospital and pregnancy time! I cannot believe how much of a difference it has made! Now that I never put that pressure on my cervix from standing up, I can really feel just how much weight those babies put on it when I do sit or stand! It is almost painful!

Eva all dolled up for church!

Eva and daddy getting ready for church. I cried my eyes out because I wont be going for a really long time!

Eva loves her spaghetti!

And below are some pictures of my shower 2 weeks ago! It was so much fun and so many people came out to support us! We got so many great things! Thank you so much to all of my hosts! I wish we could have gotten pictures together!!!!

Our little pumpkin patch cake.

My mom, me, my best friend from high school and her mom at my shower.


Me and my honey bunches of oats!

Casey and I! She is the fellow quad mom that is my good friend and mentor!

Dahlia

Preston

Parker

Madelyn (looking straight at you)