FRUSTRATIOOOOOOOON!!!

I really don't know what to blog about but I know people like to hear updates so I will try to see what I can do about that.

Some days in the hospital are great, they go by smoothly and everything goes well with the girls. While other days are just crummy. I have realized that the weekends are tough for the girls and me. It is when the floor nurses have to do my monitoring sessions and to tell you the truth some of them really aren't very good at it. I do understand that they have several other patients that they have to juggle during the time when I am doing my monitoring. Sometimes my monitoring sessions on the weekend go well and the nurse has little to do because the girls stay on. Other times it is HORRIBLE--the girls either won't stay on the monitors OR the nurse picks up one baby's heart beat and thinks that each girl has the same heart beat. Let me tell you that the doctors don't believe that both the girls have the same heart rate and have accelerations at the same time :). Today was one of those horrible days, the girls wouldn't stay on and the nurse that I had really didn't understand why I was being monitored and why I had to be on for an HOUR and that the girls having a heart rate about one beat apart was not two babies. If the monitoring session does not go well the doctors will make me do it again, which is understandable. Thus, I get more and more frustrated when the nurses only pick up one heart rate and think that they have two babies, because I know the doctors will make me do it again. I know the nurses get annoyed because I am telling them that what we have won't count and I'll have to do it again, but I really don't know what other options I have. Good thing I had Ben to vent to multiple times about how being here on the weekend was a waste of my time if they couldn't even monitor the girls. I'm trying to have a better attitude about it because I still have another monitoring session to go tonight. I'm hoping that the girls will be more cooperative and I will have a nurse who is comfortable doing monitoring for twins. Here's for hoping....

I had an ultrasound yesterday and the estimated weight for the girls are 3 lbs 5 oz and 3 lbs 2 oz. Slowly but surely they are getting bigger!

Onto happier things, I only have about 2.5 weeks left. Last week when my doctor was on we scheduled when I would have the c-section, if the girls and I could make it to 32 weeks. We are scheduled to have the girls on May 18. I keep telling the girls that we can make it that far and that we only have 2.5 weeks left. It is crazy to think that the girls could be in our lives in as little as 2.5 weeks or sooner. I have tons to do and little purchased for the girls. Ben keeps telling me that we will have time once the girls are here, which is true since they will be in the NICU for a while but I still wish I could get more done. My sister volunteered my brother-in-law to paint the nursery for us, which is very nice because we won't have time to do it. Trish brought me paint swatches over the weekend and I picked a color and Brandon will be painting the nursery next week. We are very blessed to have Trish and Brandon staying with us. It is nice for them to be able to do random things around the house or run errands that Ben and I can't or don't have time to do. I'm sure Trish is getting sick of me coming up with random errands for her to run for me.

Other noteworthy news is that we toured the NICU last weekend. It was good to see where the girls would be, but all I could think was, "WOW those babies are tiny." I know the girls will be that small, too, but it is weird to see it. Funny thing...well I think it is funny...I went to a lunch for all the inpatient moms last week and the main thing they were talking about was making it to 34 or more weeks so your baby could stay out of the NICU. I couldn't help but smile because I am totally okay with our girls going in the NICU and I know that is where they will be. It just made me laugh have several girls were super worried and not wanting their babies to go into the NICU and here I was embracing the fact that the girls would go in the NICU and that there was nothing we could really do about it.

Last but not least, today Ben brought me a video of the tour of the house! It really doesn't seem real that we have a house that is all ours. It made me laugh because the house is chaotic and messy with boxes everywhere, but I will deal with it when I get out. Ben and I will have to figure out where to put things. The necessities are unpacked but a lot of other things aren't. Unpacking will be another thing to do once I get out of the hospital, just add it to the list :). I'll (actually, Ben) work on uploading the video so you all can see a tour of the house, pardon the commentary (Hey! I take offense to that remark!) and the messy house, just bask in how cute it will be.