Tiff's Turn

Holy cow. I'm 31 weeks and 3 days. Holy cow. I repeat: holy cow. #Imhuge  #holycow I hit my wall. All of the sudden I am huge and I still have almost five weeks to go. How can my stomach stretch any more than this? And I think my body is falling apart. Because of that, this happened today: My mom, who has pretty much been attached to my hip lately, helped me get some groceries for the week. She suggested the motorized scooter since every step I take hurts due to some pulled muscles. It worked out great, but I felt judgy eyes upon me as we moved throughout the store. I just wanted to wear a sign, "I'm pregnant with triplets with a strained back, hiney and knee. Don't judge me." Or maybe I was just being paranoid. No matter how much I whine, I still want the babies to stay in the oven until July 10. More time in my belly = less time in the NICU. I also learned a hard lesson today: It is never OK to skimp on your water intake while 31 weeks pregna...

How was your weekend? This weekend, we had a diaper party. Shout-out to everyone who came to celebrate with us and thank you for helping us out! I added up the number of diapers that were gifted to us: 1,252! Thank you! On Friday, we made it to 30 weeks gestation! Each new week pregnant is a celebration when you're pregnant with multiples, especially 30 weeks and beyond! We gained a great deal of knowledge about the triplets at today's appointment.  First, today was our first NST at the doctor (non-stress test). This test measures each baby's heart rate to see how they respond to their own movements. It took two nurses to hold the monitors over the three babies, plus one more monitor to measure my contractions. (I only had a couple little contractions and that was probably due to the babies moving.) The babies' heart rates have to accelerate at this stage of gestation at least once in twenty minutes. All of the...