Triplet Update - A few photos posted 11/16 on page 11

You are so sweet.  I'll send you a private message with a link.  My daughter okayed it.  Thank you so much for thinking of them!

Thank you so much, friend. Now that they are past a pretty critical milestone I am getting pretty excited!!

Hi! I'm back with an update. Monday, 7/8 will put my daughter at 29 weeks. Things are moving along now. I'm trying to get work things tied up as much as possible so I can take off if I get a call prior to the scheduled C-section date. As it stands, my husband and I are planning to take off about a week before the scheduled date and drive out there. That'll get us there a few days early so we can help out, plus knock out a bucket list item for me at a time in my life I didn't really expect to be able to do that. Obviously that's not a set-in-stone plan, just a possible plan if things go as scheduled. We'd be renting a car one-way and ditching it in San Diego not long after arriving as it won't be needed.

We were asked to participate in a grandparents class that the hospital where they are delivering offers, so we stayed up late and completed that a week or two ago. It was a live class over Zoom that was held early evening California time but ended up close to midnight Knoxville time. Learned a couple interesting things. We were also required to get a TDAP vaccination, so we did that last weekend. Apparently a shingles vax is also recommended and I'd been procrastinating on that for a while so I got the first shot in that series at the same time--do not recommend getting those two vaccinations at the same time; last weekend was kind of a "lost weekend" because it took me down for a few days. But it's done. I think the only thing left is to update the COVID vaccine, which we will do toward the end of this week.

My daughter and the babies are still doing very well. One baby has been diagnosed with a congenital heart issue but so far it's not a huge concern. My daughter's identical twin is a congenital heart disease patient--this particular issue diagnosed in one of the babies is something my CHD daughter has and was considered sort of the least of the concerns, so overall it's as good as news like this gets. They are going to do echos on all the babies as soon as they are born just to make sure everything is okay.

Here's a photo from my daughter's maternity shoot, which took place maybe a week or two after the shower.
Image 17 by Seanna., on Flickr

What a little cutie. I'm so glad she is making time and space to do all the things she wants to do during her pregnancy. She is very aware that this is likely the only pregnancy she will have.

So that's the update. Things are getting more medically intense now and my daughter is definitely feeling the "I'm pregnant with triplets" situation, but overall everything is going well.

I have!  It's adorable.  They painted the room a sage-ish green and one wall has sort of off-white wallpaper above a chair rail with gold planets and stars.  My daughter initially chose a similar but different wallpaper until she learned it was going to cost $2200 just for the wallpaper. Soooo she found another kind that is similar and it was about 15% of the original cost.  Yikes, that's expensive wallpaper. Anyway, what they ended up with turned out adorable.  They like the soft earthtones color palette, which has been fun to shop for.

I believe my daughter has been given sort of standard advice to expect bedrest, and she was definitely told to slow down about a month ago, which she did.  No fireworks shows this year, for example.  The anticipation would be that if it's actual bedrest, it will more than likely be in the hospital.  She is still working but only 1-2 days a week.  I think most of her colleagues are male sailors, and they are all terrified of her because they are men and she is pregnant with triplets, so she can pretty much come in when she can/is able to.  On doc visit days, that's all she can manage as it wipes her out.  Just the ultrasound takes several hours and it's apparently all the ultrasound guy does that day--just hers.  I'm sure there are lots of measurements/reports and other things they have to finish up after she leaves the office.

I can't remember if I mentioned that they have had good friends from the TN area visiting, and one is a cardiology BSN.  Yay!  She's had a nurse with her 24/7 for the past several days.  They've just been hanging out and relaxing, knowing this will be the last time they spend time together before the babies arrive.