Week 29!!!

On Saturday we reached another monumental goal of 29 weeks!!!! Each day we get is exciting and each time we start a new week it is a party. Crystal and babies are doing well. The babies are monitored every morning. Miles and Lilly are always very easy to find and for the most part stay on the monitor for the full 20 minutes needed to say that they are still doing fine. Jaxon on the other hand is difficult. Today we had four nurses in the room trying to figure out where he was, so they could monitor him. What takes a normal pregnancy 20 to 25 minutes takes us at times over an hour to say the babies are doing well.

Crystal has been such a trooper and her spirits have remained high. As I have left during the day to go to work she has been able to stay busy with work, watching T.V. or visiting with the many visitors that have come by. We had two highlights this week, the first was, Crystal was given wheelchair privileges. One time a day she can leave her room and go for a wheelchair ride anywhere on the hospital campus. This has served as our daily date. The second highlight was Crystal was approved to order from the "secret" menu. The secret menu is really just the cafeteria menu but she is not limited to the room service menu. We were also given vouchers so I can go pick out her food at the cafeteria and charge it to the room.

Lastly we have had a lot of questions regarding the babies amniotic fluid levels. Miles has little to no measurable fluid, Lilly is most likely in the same state as Miles at this point, and Jaxon in the words of our perinatologist is living it up in the penthouse. While the amniotic fluid is important the doctors are not concerned about the low levels of fluid, unless the babies start to show signs of distress, thus we are monitored on a daily basis. At our last perinatology appointment they told us they wanted to do bi-weekly ultrasounds on the babies. Because Crystal and babies are doing so well they have changed that to weekly ultrasounds that take place on Wednesday. I will try and update on Wednesday and again on Sunday to keep everyone updated with our progress.