I'll Be Home for Christmas!!!

I'M HOME!!!!! so after two weeks in the hospital I was finally released the 23rd just in the nick of time for Christmas! My Dr. (who is awesome by the way) decided that if i made it to my thirtieth week and my cervix was relatively the same that she would let me go back to home bed rest. During my sonogram not only was my cervix longer but only one baby is breech and so I only have one pair of feet playing soccer with my cervix!! It was a long stay at the hospital but obviously beneficial and I'm now parked at my Mother Bendall's house were she will graciously take care of me until the babies come. I had a bit of a scare the day I was got home from the hospital, almost the minuet i walked through the door, I started to have contractions, now I've been having contractions for about 10 weeks now and these where not the same caliber. THEY HURT and they were coming every 3-5 minuets and lasted about 15 hours. Just my luck right? I sat in a hospital bed for two weeks with hardly any contractions (none worth mentioning at least) and boom I come home and go into labor!!! Luckily they did eventually stop and we are all just crossing our fingers (some of us our legs) and hoping these little boys can wait until at least January to make their grand appearance.

On a lighter note Christmas was wonderful!! my brother and his new wife of less than a week came and spent the night the two days up until Christmas and hung out, my mother baked like crazy lady and made soo much wonderful food I could die! We all sat and watched Christmas movies and had a wonderful time. Christmas really was so special this year I was home with all of my family and everyone was healthy and happy. It was probably one of if not the best Christmas ever. I love my family including all my in-laws and extended family and am so blessed to have so many wonderful and caring people in my life. I couldn't believe the amount of people who took time out of their busy schedules to come visit me and brought gifts to to me while I was in the hospital even during such a crazy time of year. I really could not ask for more.

Doxies and Coyotes

Audrey(red) Madison (black and brown)

Me and Devin bought two adorable puppies last year Audrey and Madison both mini dachshunds, when I was first pregnant I could not stomach the smell of them not that they were particularly stinky little girls but my hyper sensitive nose magnified their...Doggyness. So off to grandmas house they went (momma Laura). Their they have remained for the last 7 months. They I am sure have much enjoyed their stay in my parents grand back yard and with tons of love and moogies from all my siblings, however my parents live in the boonies and with that comes a certain collection of wild animals including but not limited to coyotes. Last spring a coyote jumped my parents fence and snatched up my childhood dog Lilly (a corgi dachshund mix) right out of her bed and tore her to shreds. Unfortunately she had to be put down due to the severity of her wounds. SO my parents were a little hesitant to bring my little rotten girlie's into their home but decided they would just make and extra effort to keep them safe such as bringing them in at night etc. They had been at my parents house a whole week before one busy morning during breakfast my 10 year old brother brooks decides to slip outside and play with the pooches. Unfortunately someone else had already joined them. The scene my brother encountered was one large coyote with one squirmy weeiner dog clutched between its teeth. Luckily Brooks screamed like a girl the moment he saw this and scared the coyote enough to drop its brunch and it ran off and jumped back over the fence. Fortunately for Audrey she only had an few puncture wounds and was happy as a clam shortly their after. Any who this strange coyote predicament has made it even harder for these little Doxie's to enjoy their simple little life, they can only be outside during the middle of the day when coyotes are no where to be found otherwise someone has to be with them at all times. So any who me and Devin all along figured as soon as we bought our own home would surly take the little girlie's back and all would be dandy, but we didn't expect to be having twins.. so we decided that they needed a new permanent home one that is not threatened by nasty coyotes, and we found just the one!! Brady (14 yr old brother) has a long time best friend named Max who lives in Sierra Vista and his mom happens to be a dachshund lover and has ever so willingly decided to take Maddie who will join her other doxie Ruby who is Maddie's twin just ten pounds bigger, and a co worker of hers happens to be coveting a red doxie and will be taking Audrey. It is bitter sweet to say bye to these cute little girls but I couldn't find better homes for them if I tried and when it comes to whats best for them.. I am not going to be able to provide that with two babies on my hip. So off my little doxies go to Sierra Vista to enjoy a new life!

"slapped on hospital bed rest"

Just a funny picture of me, my grandma Staples, my mother, and aunt Nina on Thanksgiving with candy wrappers on our teeth:)

"Slapped on hospital bed rest?" A quote from my last post.... and unfortunately the outcome of my last Dr. apt.

So I knew The time would come at some point during my pregnancy where I would be put on "bed rest" but I thought I would be able to avoid hospital bed rest!! But who am I joking this entire pregnancy has been full of surprises so I should not be in the least bit surprised.

So as I said a week ago at my last Dr. Apt my cervix were looking "short" bad news when your only 27 weeks prego because once the canal is gone... than its much harder to stop labor. SO I was diligent I sat on my rump all day long and laid like an invalid in my bed! I had soo many wonderful people come over and help me make my bed rest possible everyone from my mom to my mother in-law people in my ward you name it so I was legitimately following my bed rest orders, I had been told hospital bed rest was a possibility but I figured if I was really good I would be able to avoid it for at least a couple weeks. So any way I go in bright and early on Thursday morning for about the hundredth sonogram of this pregnancy, and I was in there a whole 2 min before I was hearing those dreaded words... "hospital bed rest" unfortunately both babies are breech and all FOUR feet are literally KICKING my cervix OUT! (not that that's the actual cause of my ever shortening cervix but lets just say it sure doesn't help!!). and my Dr. looks at the screen and then I ask, already knowing from the image on the screen "is it shorter??" any who at this point the only other option I had besides having babies ridiculously early is to get a non stop trip up to the fourth floor of the hospital where I will now remain until these babies arrive. I have to say I kept it together pretty well and haven't broke down and lost it yet but, its only day three so it could be a much different story in a couple of weeks when I'm about to lose my mind! As much as I don't want to be laying in a hospital bed, if this is what it takes to have healthy babies than Ill lay here as long as I have too. Fortunately I have awesome nurses and my situation could be so much worse, I'm not hooked up to any monitors or IVs or any of that garbage and I at least have bathroom and shower privileges. I also don't have people poking and prodding me every five minuets, they check the babies heartbeats twice a day check my vitals twice as well and pretty much just leave me be. So I cant complain, I could be strapped to fifty monitors, upside down and be on all kinds of drugs to stop labor that make you sick so at this point I'm defiantly not complaining. I also have the best support system ever, my husband has moved in and is here when ever he can be, and my mother comes and visits as often as she can which really helps pass the time, I have also had visits from my mother in law and my dad so Ive had some great company to make this experience even more bare able. I really am so lucky, how often does a woman find out she is having not one but two babies?? I just keep telling myself that this is all a blessing and I know that the outcome will forever outweigh the price it took to achieve it.

Holidays, Babies, Tis the Season!

I just have to start out by saying that I LOVE the Holidays! and they have already started off with a bang. Me and Devin are very fortunate to have both of our families live so close, which means we get to double dip on all the holidays. We started off at his parents house on Thanks Giving morning and had a great time hanging out with family and eating great food, than we drove an hour to Sierra Vista and had dinner at my Grandma and Grandpa Staples house and some more of my relatives. Food was incredible as always and it was so good to just be with our families. There is something extra special about being pregnant at the holidays that I really enjoyed . I have so much to be thankful for this year and am so happy with where life has taken me and my family.

Black Friday:

So me and Devin decided to take the Wal-Mart risk and show up at midnight when the doors opened to see if we could snag some good deals for Christmas this year... I don't think I have ever seen a more barbaric group of people all crammed together in one space, needless to say it wasn't worth it so we walked in got shoved around for a few minuets and went home! I did however make it to Joanns the next morning and scored some good deals online, and eventually got everything I was hoping to get with limited black Friday crazies intervening!

The Baby Update

had another sonogram this week and the babies are growing like weeds. I am now 27 weeks and 5 days pregnant and I can't even think where all the time has gone. Baby B the little guy having all the trouble is also looking good, his measurements have gone up substantially and he is nearly on track again. Baby A is as big as ever and running out of room to move around but still looking good. My last few sonograms the babies have been on top of each other, or facing down and we haven't been able to get many good facial shots, they were both on their best behavior yesterday and we got some really good facial shots, I can't help but think how stinking cute they I can't wait to hold them and squeeze them! Baby B also gave quite the performance and gave the first offically 100% acurate reveal of his little manhood and there is no more room for argument their! so he is indeed a boy and there will be no surprises at the delivery. As far as all the issues I explained last post here is where we are now, I went back and did enough blood work to provide 50 blood transfusions and they ran every test possible, and the results were really good, I am positive for CMV but it was so distant that my body is immune to the infection and they now believe that it will have no direct consequences to either baby!! So I think we are out of the woods on that one. They think the calcification s are little to no issue and that baby B will be as healthy as any other baby. A nice relief let me tell you!! Although everything looks great with the babies, it seems I can't leave and appointmet scott free gosh darn!!! I started having some pretty hard contractions on Sunday and continue to have pre term labor, during the sonogram the tech measured my cervix and they are quite thin... so we could be having babies much sooner than expected, I seem to be having contractions and labor issues that I am not even really aware of. So they gave me two rounds of steriods shots to help the babies lungs develope faster (these shots were HUGE) in my rump yesterday and today. They also monitored my contractions and the babies heartbeats for a while and without even knowing it I had 3 contractions right then and thier. So I am on indefinite bed rest. I can get up to go the bathroom and eat, nothing else is negotiable. But hey I'd much rather stick to the rules keep these babies cooking as long as possible and not get slapped on hospital bed rest. I knew this time would eventually come where my bed rest would get serious and I'm just glad I made it to 27 weeks. So Now i get to go in twice a week for stress testing and contraction monitoring, cervix checking you name it! Its a good thing I live 5 min from the Dr and hospital! My dr. says she would be overjoyed if I made it to 36 weeks which is only 8 weeks?~!!!! holy cow when did we get down to the single digits??!!! so we will probably have babies sometime in January.. so crazy!!

Special shout out to my mother who has already completely filled my kitchen with groceries and has been so helpful with trying to make this whole bed rest thing as easy as possible!! I don't know what I would do without that lady!! And also my mother in law who brought over some really yummy turkey soup!!! My husband has also stepped up to the plate and started doing the cleaning washing etc. that usually do. I am so blessed to have such wonderful people in my life!!