2/14/2012

This, by far, was the most special Valentine's Day I've ever had. Being in the hospital naturally limits your Valentine's Day options....so Dustin brought our love for gourmet food to the hospital.
He brought a card table, purchased a table cloth and set up shop. I got a dozen red roses yesterday with 2 pink ones in the bouquet for Caroline and Claire. : ' )
A 5 course dinner was catered by a company here in San Antonio. We had a wedge salad, mushroom bisque, Filet Mignon with a mushroom glaze, steamed veggies and potato au gratin stack. All followed by a cherry crisp! It was soooooooooo much food but absolutely delicious. The thought that went in to this and the fact that it was a total surprise to me is breathtaking. We traded in the wine and the fancy-smancy restaurant in for peach tea and in my antepartum room and IT WAS PERFECT! I will never forget this day.

C, C & H's 14 roses

Yummy cookies from one of our favorite bakeries.

Dustin setting up.

I even wore normal people clothes for dinner! And from this I can tell my tummy is growing. : ) We end most nights with a wheel chair ride around the hospital and outside for a bit for some fresh air and last night we went by the nursery to see all of the Valentine's Day babies.

So being here so long and knowing we still have several weeks to go we know we must take care of our nurses. Dustin got them Valentine's Day cookies as well. I know what he was thinking when he bought them....oh heart's....I will take them! Little did he know that it was like a puzzle where you put them together and you have lingerie! : o He was completely embarrassed but the nurses LOVED them. As one nurse said well if there is a department that it is completely appropriate for these cookies it would be the antepartum / Labor & Delivery unit. : )

(You can see it with the purple ones!)



Today marks 27 weeks! The stats for this week are amazing and really puts us over a "hump." Mortality at this gestational age is less than 5%. Things are still going really well and our nurses and Dr.'s are very pleased with the tracings of the girls' heartbeats. I am now monitored 2 times per day for 1 hour each time and have minimal contractions or irritability which is entirely normal given where we are and the fact I have 2 babies trying to find room in there. They like to both show off, swim around and race their heart rates. So far they are acting like 32 week babies via their heart tracings so we're all very pleased with this. Dr. Gordon rounded on us last night and if things keep going as well as they are he doesn't see why we wouldn't push delivery to 33 weeks. He and his partner don't always agree on this, but we knew this going in. Dustin wants to take them as soon as we arrive to the safest place in their gestational age (so 32 weeks) and I would like to push it if heart rates for us all prove to be ok, their tracings are appropriate and if there has been no bleeding from the previas. We'll make this decision once we get a little further but I always like to have a goal in mind. So the prayers are working! 35 or so more days to go. : )

P.S. Dustin and I received a gift and it didn't have a name on it. It was shipped to our house approximately a week and a half to two weeks ago but no tag was attached. It was a swaddle so if this is from you please let me know so we can thank you appropriately!!