I couldnt pm you, but I wanted to know how are you doing with your pregnancies? I wish no further bumps in the road....

I´ve been so nauseous and tired, I dont remember feeling this way with the triplets.. I cant do anything Im so tired, I just want to lay down on the bed ALL day. .. I had a scare the other day because I threw up some blood, but the dr. says everything is ok and only took my prenatal vitamins away a couple of days...

Monique
Mom to 26.5wk triplets, born 09/14/06
^Nicole^
^Daniel^
Nathalie

Hey, you guys are moving right on up there now!!

We've added all of you to our prayer list and will be praying for all of your little singleton babies! BTW, mndandm, what is your first name? It's awkward to pray for you without knowing this...

I'm figuring that all of you are hitting the pesky 20 week mark -- that scary nowhere land of "nearly there, but not quite." If you feel like staying in bed, do it. If you feel scared, come on over here because we all understand. AND, if anything feels funny or questionable, RUN (or waddle??) straight over to L&D and push for a careful review -- oh, and take your significant other with you, too. Having someone else to fight on your behalf can be very important.

But, be sure to remain hopeful and happy. After all, Rachel made it to 36 weeks. Raquel is fast on her heels -- topping off 31 now. Good things are coming to you and we're all behind you on this.

Cat w/3 Kittens
Caidan, Carina and Caeleigh
Born at 31 weeks, 1/8/04.
It is better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all. In memory of Carina, who was greatly loved.

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Im sorry, I never sign my name, my name is Monique, thanks for asking.

Monique
Mom to 26.5wk triplets, born 09/14/06
^Nicole^
^Daniel^
Nathalie

Thanks for the prayers and encouragement. It's funny this pregnancy I have had no trouble fighting on my behalf, I think dh is afraid to even come with me at this point I went for my first prog. shot the other day and they were not going to give it to me because my dr. was out of town and they couldn't find documentation on it. I told them they would have to call or page whomever because I was 18 weeks and not leaving until I got the shot. Dh said they are probably hoping I deliver early again so they don't have to deal with me for 21 more weeks

Jessica
Mom to Parker, McKenna, ^Hadley^ born 10/9/07 28w5d
little brother Sawyer
and big sister Ashlyn
www.fourplusanangel.com

Hey,
I started my progesterone injections at 18 weeks, too, but I don't go to the dr for them. They said I can do it myself which is much easier than dealing with going there each week. I can't exactly give myself an IM injection and I didn't think my husband could do it so I brought it into work- I work in a hospital with tons of qualified people all around me. But since I was off this past monday and didn't want to change the day, I let my husband do it, I set it all up and just showed him where to shoot and he did just fine. I'm using a 22 gauge needle because it barely hurts at all, it's just a little harder to push through since the stuff is pretty thick. So if you can, see if they'll let you do it yourself.
Good job sticking up for yourself. Our drs understand that we've been through the worst and we're allowed to be a bit (ok sometimes a lot) crazy this time around.
--Cindy

-Cindy
Mother to 24 week triplets;
Brandon
^Ryan^ & ^Jessica^ (7/25/05-8/24/05)
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Hey,
I started my progesterone injections at 18 weeks, too, but I don't go to the dr for them. They said I can do it myself which is much easier than dealing with going there each week. I can't exactly give myself an IM injection and I didn't think my husband could do it so I brought it into work- I work in a hospital with tons of qualified people all around me. But since I was off this past monday and didn't want to change the day, I let my husband do it, I set it all up and just showed him where to shoot and he did just fine. I'm using a 22 gauge needle because it barely hurts at all, it's just a little harder to push through since the stuff is pretty thick. So if you can, see if they'll let you do it yourself.
Good job sticking up for yourself. Our drs understand that we've been through the worst and we're allowed to be a bit (ok sometimes a lot) crazy this time around.
--Cindy

-Cindy
Mother to 24 week triplets;
Brandon
^Ryan^ & ^Jessica^ (7/25/05-8/24/05)
http://lilypie.com>
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Ugh!! I started having contractions Friday night, it was just like my last pregnancy. I drank water and stayed on my left side and just when we were thinking of heading to the hospital they stopped. I haven't had any more this weekend but that was enough to make me very nervous. I'm anxious to see what my doctor says this week. By this time last time I was already in the hospital for good so I am just hoping that I can stay home for as long as possible.

Hope you guys have better reports!

Jessica
Mom to Parker, McKenna, ^Hadley^ born 10/9/07 28w5d
little brother Sawyer
and big sister Ashlyn
www.fourplusanangel.com

I´m sorry youre having contractions, I hope it was only from your uterus stretching (fingers crossed)... I´ll be praying for you... Did you have a different activity this week?

I had my u/s on Friday and its confirmed, only 1¡ yey! Im 10 weeks pregnant and everything looks very good, I pray that the remainder of my pregnancy is the same. I´m trying not to carry my dd, but its very difficult. Im resting more and the dr gave me a rx for the nausea (i havent started taking it yet though).

Monique
Mom to 26.5wk triplets, born 09/14/06
^Nicole^
^Daniel^
Nathalie

The only thing I did differently was get the prog. shot. I swore during my last pregnancy that I contracted more after those shots but the dr. said it couldn't be. I'm going to mention it when I go back this week... leave it to me to have the opposite reaction to something that is supposed to help!

Glad to hear it is 1 and you are hopefully getting some help for the nausea. I'm trying to lift my kids less but they are still too little for the most part.

Jessica
Mom to Parker, McKenna, ^Hadley^ born 10/9/07 28w5d
little brother Sawyer
and big sister Ashlyn
www.fourplusanangel.com

(please excuse my bad typing since in bed at hosp.)

Hi ladies,

I can't believe there are so many of us preggers right now. I'm sorry I haven't posted earlier. I've been wanting to tell you all that you are so strong and so normal for all the worries. We have all been through such hell. No one understands but us and others who have lost like us. My friend who had two miscarriages at 12 weeks is 11 weeks pregnant and she has bleed twice already. However, she is in such grief from her dad recently passing and the other losses she refused to get on prog. suppos. saying, "whatever happens will happen"
while she is being very passive and doesn't want to attach I find it difficult since she doesn't want to do everything she can to make this pregnancy work. but I also understand her negativism cause I too could not get attached to Eliana until most recently. Our losses have taught us to think the worse but hope for the best.

I also wanted to tell you that after my double stitch cerlage I didn't have much going on until 20 weeks when I thought my water broke but it was blood gushing. It stopped quivkly but earlier that day I felt a weired achy feeling in my belly and sure enough this gush happened a few hours later. I ended up in hosp for 4 days but the stiches held. That is when they started me on prog.shots. My husband gave them to me prior to being placed in hosp.

They still don't know what caused the bleeding. I think my cerclage was stretching and caused contract causing cerclage to bleed plus I get heavy mucus from cerclage. this last time they said I was dehydriated.

Anyway, please take good care, drink lots and lots of fluids and get lots of rest. I'm so grateful for the time
God has given me and pray for 4 more weeks. I also pray that all of you get to full term. Oh, one more thing at one appt. a midwife asked how I was doing I told her my concerns and she said" well if you look for trouble your gonna find it!" I was so pisst I told her if you watched your three babies die and then lost another you would look for trouble too.

It felt good to stand up to her, cause If I wasn't looking for trouble I would have never called Labor and Delivery when my kick counts seemed off and would have never found out my water was low and causing Eliana stress, who knows what would have happened.

Don't stop complaining or asking or expressing your concerns. Love you all.

Raquel
Mom to triplet angels: Sophia, Steven Jr. & Xavier b/d 25w4d (11/26/06, & Sweet baby Joseph (11/14/07-11/14/07)
Eliana Grace-God has answered
Born 4/03/09