Day Twenty-eight

Well, today has been a little more eventful than I anticipated. They put me on the monitors this morning as usual, and everything looked ok with the babies for the most part, but it was showing that I was having contractions fairly frequently. I couldn't really feel them at first, but once I noticed them on the monitor I could feel a slight tightening. It was frequent enough that the doctor was concerned and so they put in an IV to pump me full of water to see if maybe I was just dehydrated and that was what was causing the contractions. They seemed to slow a little with the IV, but did not stop so then they had me take a medication called Procardia to try to stop them and as soon as I did that they stopped and I was able to go off the monitor at least, although they left the IV in for now. The rest of my monitoring sessions today were uneventful and showed no contractions so that's good. Now we just wait and see what happens!

Taiven seems to be healing pretty well so far. I don't think he's been slowed down too terribly much, from what I hear. Surprisingly enough, it sounds like kids his age can actually heal from something like this in as little as 2 weeks! It's definitely a relief to know that he doesn't seem to be in too much pain at least. The girls seem to be doing well as well. Half the time they're not even interested in talking on the phone anymore so I guess that's a good sign that they're not missing me too much!

We've spent a lot of time this week talking about when we want to deliver, assuming the babies don't decide for us! The big debate is whether to deliver at 32 weeks and risk more of the complications that can come with prematurity or do we wait until closer to 34 weeks and risk the possibility of something happening and losing one or both of them all together. I think at this point we're leaning more toward delivering at 32 weeks, but we'll see as time goes on.

Between my visit to the NICU and having a couple scares this week I have found this verse to be a good reminder: "He will have no fear of bad news; his heart is steadfast, trusting in the Lord. His heart is secure, he will have no fear." (Psalm 112:7-8). God has been so faithful throughout this entire process, and I know I can trust in Him. Sometimes I just need to remind my heart of that!