Post 19

Merry Christmas!

We've got new digs!

Exciting news....we have moved to Plano! Plano Presbyterian Hospital that is...

I know...but Kelli is really doing well, is in no pain, and is resting, resting, resting.

Here's the story.

She has been on home bedrest since December 11 (yes, that's her birthday) and last Thursday, at 1pm, we went to see her doctor for our weekly sonogram of the Deuce and to check the K-Pod out.

Last time we went, on the 11th, the doctor saw that her cervix was shortening and put her on immediate bedrest. The idea being that laying down all the time reduces gravity's pull of the Deuce on the cervix, thus, slowing down the shortening of the cervix and generally discouraging the Deuce from wanting to come out. Fairly simple really...go horizontal to keep them from coming out.

So, we went back last Thursday to check out the cervix, and theoretically, the cervix should have stopped shortening being that the Duece were no longer being pulled downward (bedrest=Kelli is horizontal). Well guess what? The cervix had actually continued to shorten (from 17cm to 12cm) quite a bit. What this means is that for some reason, her body is wanting to give birth (well there ARE over 8lbs worth of babies in there), so she needs to be in a hospital under strict observation, rather than being stuck out at the Dirt Farm.

This is smart thinking.

So...the doctors had initially predicted we would be here for about 6 weeks, which is a long long time, however, after her last appointment with the high-risk OB, it turns out we should be expecting the Deuce around the first or second week of January.

So....the Deuce are set to arrive around January 6 or shortly thereafter.

We are very excited as you can imagine.

Some info:

We are at Plano Presbyterian Hospital at Parker and the Dallas North Tollway, in Room 355. The phone number to the room is 972-981-7355, and Kelli is here all day and all night. Visiting Hours are 11:30am to 9:30pm.

Kelli is not on strict bedrest, which means she can get up and go to the potty and can take a shower but that is about it!

This is tremendous...and I will tell you, we have gained some perspective since we "checked in".

On Thursday night, our first night here, Kelli's sister Terri was up here with her husband John and son Chandler, and we boys decided to go have a look at some of the new babies in "The Fishbowl". We walked up as two twin girls were just coming in (they had been born 10 minutes before, so they were right out of the oven). The mother who had just given birth to them HAD BEEN ON BEDREST FOR 26 WEEKS!!!!!

That's right kids, that's 6 1/2 months.

...and check this out....the babies that were born on Thursday night had the EXACT SAME NAMES AS THE DEUCE! Can you believe that? Who would have imagined two sets of twins in the same hospital both named Han Solo and Chewbacca? We may have to think about some different names.

Most of the people on the floor have been here for many many weeks and/or months...so we are the easy cheesey folks on the floor. There are about 12 women here on bedrest.

...and we received some great news Friday...the high-risk OB saw the Deuce practicing their breathing on the sono, and even made Baby A kick, and rubbed her back and made her stretch out...all very good signs. He said that if they popped out today, there would be a 98% chance that they'd be fine and wouldn't have to go to the neonatal ICU, which is HUGE NEWS!

So...we are on the right track here. Keep those good thoughts and prayers coming. Things are very positive and Kelli is in very high spirits.

We have been doing our best to make this place feel like home for K-Pac. We have two Christmas trees in the room (one is a real tree and the other is bright silver with red balls), and we also have Santa stockings up and a big red ribbon on the door. All thanks to Kelli's family...they are so so so sweet to us.

Today we had Christmas with her family, and had a big Christmas dinner and watched home movies...and had a beer too (don't tell the nurses). So far it's been pretty good...and most importantly, Kelli is doing really well and the babies are doing really well too.

So that's it...not too much funny stuff this time around, but we wanted to keep everyone updated as to what was going on on our little world.

Again, thanks for the kind thoughts and prayers being sent our way....God has truly blessed our little family, and I hope yours is too.

Merry Christmas!

...and now for some fun pics...

We miss our little Charlie dog. Luckily Aunt Derrel has him and I'm sure he's being spoiled.

Kelli's doing pretty well in her new home.

John and Terri at our Christmas dinner. We had fun!

Thanks for stopping by.