Tripletville Adventures : Week 24

Fetal Viability is described as "The potential of the fetus to survive outside the uterus after birth, natural or induced. Fetal viability depends largely on the fetal organ maturity, and environmental conditions." They say that at 24 weeks, the babies have a 50% chance of survival which is increased to 95% at 28 weeks. This is just to show how important each week is that the babies remain in my belly. I talked to the specialist this week about this 24 week milestone I thought I had reached and she said that yes, 24 weeks is a good milestone to reach... if you were carrying a singleton baby. She said she won't breathe easy until we hit 28 weeks! (4 more weeks!!) She would love to see me go to at least 33 weeks which would bring me to November 30th. So fingers crossed everyone and keep that date in your thoughts for me!!

The babies are all doing well, the average for a singleton baby at week 24 is about 1 lb 5oz and at 23 weeks and 3 days baby A & C were at 1lb 3oz and baby B, my big boy, was at 1 lb 5 oz. So they are growing really well, keeping up with the growth rate of singleton babies! At my next appointment, I expect them to be over a pound and a half, so we'll see!!! GROW BABIES GROW!!!

They are, as always, kicking and letting me know they're there all the time. So very soon my husband, family and friends will be able to join me in this wonderful feeling. They seem to be more active in the evening and in the middle of the night when I'm trying to sleep... Speaking of night time... my poor hubby is not getting the sleep he needs due to my apparently loud SNORING!!! WHAT? Yep, these extra 55 lbs are making me into a snore machine, which means we may need to separate our marital bed so that he can get some sleep! I've gotten used to HIS snoring but he just can't get used to mine, boo hoo... haha... No really, I feel bad! It's a good thing we have a newly renovated (by moi and maman) guest bedroom all ready to go with a brand new bed, maybe he'll get some sleep there. It might be hard for me to sleep though because I don't sleep very well if he's not in bed with me, I guess Roxy might have to take his place!

I've been told, yet again, to be in resting mode most of my days. Doc says that she doesn't believe in complete bedrest until the need be because she says the more you're laid down and not using your muscles, the higher the risk of developing blood clots. Since my cervix is, in her words, looking beautiful and curvaceous (to which I of course replied "like my body"...lol), she's not prescribing bed rest just yet. I do what I can, I go to my appointments, maybe make a trip to Wal-Mart, Shoppers, breakfast with my mom, etc. and then back to the couch I go. I spent most of my morning yesterday in a lawn chair enjoying the sunshine watching the boys put shingles on our shed roof. This will enable us to finally move Gab's tools out from the house, who needs that many tools!!! This also means we will be able to start organizing our house for the babies soon; I can't wait to see it all come together!

We were treated to a gift certificate from The Keg for our wedding and I wanted to go before I really couldn't move, so we decided to go last night. It was nice to be out and feel like a real person but I was dead on my feet when we got home. I'm glad we went last night because my outings are going to become more and more limited. I got to spend a wonderful night with some Moncton Multiple Moms on Thursday night, including my amazing friend Mel, and they had so many insights and reassurances... it's nice to feel I'm not alone in my scary thoughts and feelings. Thanks ladies!!

Alright.... so if you have 6 minutes to kill, you need to watch this video about how we might live outings with my trio once they're here... it's funny/scary/makes me never want to leave my house/might want to punch a few people in the throat (as my cousin Sara would say...haha):