Strike One....

Strike One - Modified Bed Rest
Strike Two - Strict Bed Rest
Strike Three - Hospital Bed Rest

The original goal was to avoid all strikes. But, that all changed on Tuesday. Thankfully, at this point it's all precautionary, but it is still a little bit scary. We got a call from our Midwife/OB office that they had some concerns from our last ultrasound. Basically they were worried about the size difference between them and that it could be a sign of twin to twin transfusion. Well, after another ultrasound and a meeting with a perinatologist who specializes in twin complications, we're pretty confident that twin to twin is not happening which is a relief. Neither boy is super big or super small. Austin is in the 77th percentile and Isaac is in the 49th percentile and they both have good amounts of fluid still in their sacs. So, we're in a good position and being almost 33 weeks if anything were to start going the wrong direction, we would just deliver them. Obviously that's not what we want to do, but we'll do anything for healthy boys. At that's where the bed rest comes in. The specialist told me to go on modified bed rest, not to stop me from going into labor or anything, but just to make sure that my body is focusing it's energy on the boys and not on keeping up with my schedule. At first it kind of freaked me out, but it's not as bad as it sounds, a little boring of course. I started working from home the day of the appointment and I've hardly left the house since. Because I've been "good" I got to go to my work baby shower on Friday afternoon. It was so nice to leave the house. Other than that, we've been blessed with visitors. Aunts have volunteered to go grocery shopping for us and have shown up at just the right time to take me somewhere so I didn't need to drive. Friends have shown up to help us get the boys' room prepped and painted and huge progress has been made. So even though this week has been a bit of a roller coaster, we have been blessed in a lot of ways. So here at two new 3-D pictures of the boys. We're getting very excited to meet them. But we're still hoping that our meeting can be postponed for a few more weeks.