Ok, so my apologies go out for all who have been hoping for some new pictures of the girls as well as an update on how they are doing. I guess we could say that we are only just beginning to feel how busy life is going to be with triplets!
The girls are all doing great! They turned one month old this past Tuesday! They have all been moved out of the isolettes (incubators) and into a crib that they all share (look for the pictures below). They came off of their pulse oximeters (measures how much oxygen in their blood) today as well. They have all been busy working on their nursing too. Chloe will be on full breast feeds tomorrow and Elia and Marly are just slightly behind. Their feeding is the only thing that is still keeping them here. And yes, I am attempting the impossible here...breastfeeding three babies. I might be insane, but I am going to try. I may fail miserably, but I have to at least try (I will gladly take any moral support on this one!!). Once they all learn to eat then they are free to go home. Hooray (but very scary too)! We believe that they should be able to go home with in the next couple of weeks.
Marly weighed in today at 5 pounds 11 ounces and Elia is taking up the bottom end at 5 pounds 7 ounces. So they are growing like weeds! Chloe is somewhere between those two, but I can't seem to remember the weights every day. I must have a lot on my mind or something... They get measured every Saturday night and last Saturday, Chloe was taking up the lead at 19.5 inches, which is 3 inches longer than when she was born. Her sisters were both 19 inches as well.
One funny thought is that the doctors originally wanted me to carry the girls to 35-36 weeks. Tomorrow (Sunday) would be 36 weeks. There is no way that I would have been able to walk if I had all of them in my belly still! Pretty crazy thought!
Ok, onto the pictures...
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August 21, 2011
Marly (left), Chloe (center) & Elia (right) with Mommy |
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August 24, 2011
Marly (left), Chloe (center) & Elia (right) with Daddy |
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August 25, 2011
Chloe (left) holding Elia's (right) hand |
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September 1, 2011
Elia with Daddy |
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September 8, 2011
Chloe's 1st Sleeper |
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Septermber 8, 2011
Elia's 1st Sleeper
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September 8, 2011
Elia (left) & Chloe (right) in their first shared bed |
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Setember 8, 2011
Garin holding Chloe "all by himself"
He is so happy & proud! |
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September 8, 2011
Garin holding Marly 'all by himself' for the first time.
I asked him to kiss her this time, but he had to sneak another one
in shortly after when no one was looking! |
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September 9, 2011
Garin holding Elia for the first time 'all by himself.'
He was so worried about her little head and neck! |
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September 10, 2011
Elia (front/pink hat), Chloe (middle/orange hat) & Marly (top/teal hat)
On September 9, 2011 the girls finally were able to snuggle with each other again,
which hadn't been done since before they were born. |
I hope you enjoyed all of the pictures! It has been so fun getting to know our babies and share them with everyone as well. As we are doing the final preparations to bring these girls home, we have been asked by many people if there are things that they can help with. Yes, there are! If anyone out there has a great hotdish or quick, easy meals that they would like to drop off, we would surely appreciate those! That is one of the MOST helpful things. If you aren't the cooking type, a gift card to a fast food or restaurant is great too. We are assuming that the first couple weeks are going to be difficult to get out to purchase household items, so if anyone would be willing to grab some groceries we would surely send you with the money to do so. The final idea for those wanting to help is more diapers! I don't think we could possibly get enough! I would prefer Huggies in the newborn size. Those are my pleas for help for the first few weeks after they come home. After having our family torn apart during the flooding, the pregnancy, the babies birth, and even now as I am living at the hospital to nurse the girls; we are really hoping to have some quality family time and see if we can figure out how to care for all of these little ones! Thank you in advance for any and all help that we can get!
