Identical Trips!

We had our 9 week Ultrasound on Friday along with our 1st Perinatology appointment. We were once again shocked lying on the exam table when they told us we are carrying identical triplets!! Now that is some crazy odds, some say anywhere between 1 in 100,000 and 1 in 2oo Million! Why such the widespread? I have no idea, all I know is that I guess we beat the odds. We are asking for lots of prayers during the next 20+ weeks as we among the very rare that are carrying all 3 with only 1 placenta. To get technical they call it Monochorionic Triamniotic identical triplets. Now that's a mouthful! It is going to probably be a roller coaster journey but we feel that we have the strength and support from many loved ones to make it through and welcome 3 new babes to our family. I am secretly (well, not so secretly...who am I kidding!) hoping for girls, but in all honesty we will be blessed with boys or girls!!

Week 9 Update

It has been a long 2 weeks since our last Ultrasound appointment! The nausea kicked in pretty good (Ben has been SUPER HUSBAND and DADDY...I don't know how he has done it all, but I am so lucky to have him! <3 ) and I didn't know how I was going to make it, thank goodness for Zofran! My OB has me on it around the clock now and today was actually a pretty good day! We went in for our first official OB appointment and saw the 3 babes on the small office US machine, boy have they grown! We didn't get any pictures printed today since we are heading to Perinatology (high-risk OB) on Friday for an extensive US scan and an appt. with a Perinatoloist who will probably take over as my primary OB. We will post some pics after that :)

My sister Sam, her husband Adam and daughter Chloe were also here visiting the past 10 days, they also took great care of me!! I was literally a bump on a log most of the time, :( partly because I also got a stomach flu last week that was truly wretched!! So, YES, things are looking up!! We all miss them very much and loved the time we all had together.

Last Saturday was a very exciting day as we celebrated Brody's 2nd Birthday! (his bday was on 8/6) He is such a special boy and we keep telling him what a great big brother he is going to be and that makes him very excited!

I don't have any official belly shots yet, give me a break- I've been sick!! but I will include a family pic and post more soon!
xoxo, Brooke

The kiddos (missing Tyson, boo!) on the waterfront: Brody, Ben, Me, Alex, Rachel, Adam, Sam, and Chloe

7 weeks and 3 strong heartbeats!!

We had our 3rd ultrasound in the last 3 weeks today, this one confirmed that there are 3 strong heartbeats in Mommy's gestational sac! We are going through waves of emotions, a true roller coaster! Which is not so good for me, since my nausea seems to be 3x's as bad and all day long! I am so exhausted these past couple weeks, that 8pm has been my bedtime- I am on Brody's schedule now! Speaking of, Brody has been the sweetest little boy lately, we truly can't get enough of him! He is going to be a great big brother!!

I stopped at the car dealership on my way home, they were great! They are going to take care of me and take back my new BMW (sniff, sniff) and probably fit me with a Honda Odyssey. Everyone that has a mini-van tells me how much they love it, and I am sure I will too....but man, was my new wagon fun while it lasted!!

I hope we are able to keep up with this blog and the next 7 months are happy and healthy :) Welcome to our new crazy world!!!

Lavendar Farm

I am almost 6 weeks in this picture, this was my 1st clue that something may be going on...how can I have that little belly already!?!?!! I actually lost a few pounds over this weekend, even though I was eating constantly and apparently had a growing tummy! In just a couple days time our world was going to be officially rocked!!

5.5 weeks

This is the first blog post in an attempt to tell our story~ the journey to the Waind trio!! These pictures were taken when I was only 5 weeks, i was feeling great and happy to be pregnant! It seemed as though I instantly grew a little pooch, like my body remembered what it did when I was pregnant with Brody and started to prepare instantly. We have been asking Brody if he wants a little brother or sister, and so far his answer has consistently been "NO!" Boy is he in for a surprise!!