Home, for now!

After 2 weeks in the hospital, Surfer and I finally begged my OB to let me go home and finish bedrest there... and he let me, without really any hesitation! Oh, how wonderful - to walk through the front door of my own home, to see my own walls, furniture, nursery, and most of all, to not have to say goodbye to Surfer at the end of the evening!

I went in yesterday for a growth ultrasound on the girls, and the news was not as good as we hoped. Little Aubrey is still... little. She is 3lbs, while Claire is an even 4lbs - a difference too large for my docs to be comfortable with. Since last measure, Aubrey had only gained 2ozs to Claire's 11oz.

Thankfully, in all other measures, Aubrey is doing fine - her body and head are measuring small but normal, she is certainly an active little one, and she is practicing her breathing like nobody's business! The challenge is that her placenta just isn't giving her the nutrients she needs, and so she is quite skinny for her gestation.

The doc said she is j-u-s-t over the borderline of having me stay pregnant - but it looks like we may need to deliver early if Aubrey's growth continues to drop off. We will go in next week for another ultrasound and they'll measure her little belly to see if she's gaining weight - if so, we'll go another few days, another ultrasound; if not, we'll probably be delivering these little girls!

We'll be 33 weeks by then, so developmentally they should both be in pretty good shape. Still some NICU time, due to their size and gestation, but nothing as worrisome as if we were several weeks back. I've heard that each day I remain pregnant with them is approx. 3 days that they won't have to spend in the NICU.

Dear Lord, please give wisdom to the docs to decide the exact time when they should deliver - not too early, but definitley not too late. And please be with both Claire and Aubrey, help them to be a strong little fighters if they need to be born in the next few weeks!