Grace and Hope

Grace and Hope
Wait for God. Wait with hope. Hope now; hope always! Pslam 131:3

Friday, April 15, 2011

Bless You, Our Three Little Sweet Peas!

Well, if you haven’t guessed it from the title of this blog, our little orange seed sized babies have grown to the size of sweet peas! Arguably these sizes are not much different, but let me assure you, not only could we appreciate the size difference on ultrasound, but there has been a lot of development this past week!
This past week, the head is starting to develop, including the jaw, cheeks and chin. The baby now has ear canals and small bumps that will eventually form the eyes and nose in a few weeks. The liver, lungs, and kidneys are also shaping this week (believe it or not, the baby will go through its third set of kidneys by next week! Embryology is the most amazing thing ever!). We were able to see another ultrasound picture this week and all three babies continue to be growing. In fact, the smallest baby last week, Baby C, is now the biggest baby—stealing all the groceries, as we like to say in the NICU! Next week we will continue to follow ultrasounds and if we are lucky we will see and hear a heartbeat. It is likely that we will not hear the heartbeat until the following week, so the motto was with IVF, we will take it one day at a time.  Just as a side note—you know you have a lot of ‘baby real estate’ when they can never get all three babies on the same ultrasound screen! Baby C is implanted in a totally different place from Baby A and B, so in order to see all three we need to get two ultrasound shots. (I’ll post ultrasound pictures sometime after we hear heartbeats, for all of you who are wondering).
Many of you are asking how I’m feeling. Well, praise God, I’m starting to feel pregnant! As this week comes to a close, I’m starting to feel more symptoms, most prominently food aversions and nausea. Food cravings—one and only one—PICKLES! You know you are having a severe craving when you actually run out of pickles and despite everything in you telling you that this is ‘just plain wrong’ you happily drink the pickle juice and are fully satisfied. Not only that, but after you realize that you are pouring gallons of preservatives into your system, you decide to put the lid back on, and store it in the frig because it might be a few more hours until you can hit the food store to restock on this very coveted item! Of course there are the frequent bathroom breaks, due to the shift in hormones…or maybe from trying to flush out the pickle juice from my system! Lastly, my once renowned frigid body temperatures have shifted to hot, hot, hot! I thank God every day that I feel so good so far…every day of feeling good (specifically not puking!) is a huge accomplishment in my eyes! More to come next week!

2 comments:

  1. I have been waiting all week for an update. I thought I would get an email notification saying that it was updated. I had checked many times this week but just not in the last day and a half. Thank you so much for posting. Love all of you and keeping ya'll in my prayers. Lynne

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  2. Praise God, indeed! Enjoy your pickles. :)

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