Weight Day

This is my first update on the new blog. I want to give a HUGE thanks to Mark and Anbeth Anderson for helping me figure out how to set up everything. Hopefully, this will be good tool to help keep all of you who are praying for me and my family updated.

DAY 10



The girls did very well on their morning and afternoon monitoring. We have had trouble in the past with them being very active during the times the nurses come to monitor their hearts. Their constant movements create a lot of disruption on the strip that records their heart waves; therefore, making it difficult for the doctors to give an accurate assessment. Today, however, they held relatively still so the strip gave a nice clean read.


I find myself breathing a sigh of relief each time the girls' hearts are picked up on the monitors. I am reminded as I lay there listening to what sounds like horse's hooves hammering away, that this moment is a gift from God. This time that I have been given to feel their movements, to hear their hearts beating, to see their little faces on the ultrasound machine, these are all reminders that life is precious and carefully designed.

Psalm 139:3-16

 "For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb.

 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;

your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place.

When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body.

All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be."

Sometimes I think if I listen very carefully, I can almost hear them saying "He made me! Isn't our God an awesome God!" Anyone who believes life does not exist before birth or that God is not real clearly has never seen two unborn babies interact together in the womb, or seen a four chambered heart (the size of a dime) thumbing away. Truly an amazing sight.

In addition to my monitoring, I had my weekly sonogram this afternoon. Every week they do what is called a biophysical on the girls. They check breathing practices, movements, cords, and probably a few other things that I wouldn't know how to spell or pronounce. They also did a weight check. One baby is 1 pound 8 ounces and the other is 1 pound 9 ounces. It will be another three weeks before they are weighed again. It's always a challenge to see how big I can get them for the next time. Just a warning, but a twin pregnancy diet can ruin you for life. It is basically eat anything that you see and then help yourself to seconds. Calories become your friend and milkshakes are encouraged.

Stephen came down to see me without the kids this evening. Our hope was to be able to get a tour of the NICU, but we are learning that it's not as easy as it may seem. They can't schedule appointments because of unpredictability of when babies might come to them. Here is how the system works. We tell my charge nurse when we are ready to go down, and she calls to see if they are available.

If they are, great! If not, we wait until the set time they give us (when they think they will be available) and call back to check again. So far Stephen and I aren't having much luck. We have struck out twice. Oh well, we aren't in any hurry to use their services. Hopefully, these babies will stay put for another 7 weeks. (Please fly by....please fly by.....please fly by)

The nurses have been wonderful and have taken great care of me. They listen patiently as I go on and on about my kids at home, showing them picture after picture on my phone.

I miss my family and am counting down each day knowing that I am one more day closer to going home. Stephen brings the kids to see me regularly, and we Facetime in between visits. Thank the Lord for modern technology!!!!

While this is not the path I would have planned for myself, it is the path the Lord has chosen for me. My prayer is that I would take every opportunity to glorify His name through every day and every experience that comes my way. He has done great things and is worthy to be praised!