11 weeks!

Ben made it home today to catch me before I shed my work clothes for the night, can you believe this belly at 11 weeks!?!!! So what's new? Hmmm, I am still feeling really nauseated :( I wish I could say that had improved, but hopefully some day! We had an US last Friday at Ben's work and they were all looking great, more baby like and less blob like! We were happy to see them all measuring the same size and their umbilical cords seem to be nicely spaced for the time being, each taking ownership of their own corner of the placenta. I am really too tired to add much more, but maybe this weekend... :) xo, Brooke

p.s. I am planning on teaching Ben how to blog so that he can help me keep this interesting! After 24 months of me uploading approx. 1, 523 albums of Brody to our Picasa site, he took it upon himself to upload his 1st album the other night, so I figure I better take full advantage and get him on here too, so stay tuned!!

4,000 calories!!

So the book my OB suggested I read after learning of the triplets has a chapter on nutritional guidelines that gives the goal of consuming 4,000 calories a day!! I guess the idea is to plump up the babes as early as possible in case of an early arrival, knowing that there is no way a mother carrying multiples is able to fit much into her belly towards the end of pregnancy term. Makes sense I guess, but I haven't been able to stomach 4,000 yet! Ben is always trying to help and brought home dinner....and dessert tonight! He has once again proven why I love him so much!!! haha. Honestly he takes the best care of me and I couldn't be more proud of him as a Daddy and Hubby :)

I am going to see a nutritionist next week to help me come up with a plan to keep me and the babes healthy and growing, I will let you know how that goes, for now....it's time to eat!

9/10 week comparison

Ben took this picture on Saturday before we went to a housewarming party, I am about 9.5 weeks and looking like I should already be in my 2nd trimester! Is it the trips or that my body knows what to do since it has been through it before?? My guess is probably a little bit of both.

Here is me at 10 weeks (I didn't have a 9wk pic) with Brody. I have vowed to not take a pic in the same outfit every week this time, it started getting to me last time around when the pink band on the pants kept getting wider and wider, and the zebra strips could barely cover my belly button by 30+ weeks! Who am I kidding, anything I take a pic in now will never fit me this time when I am am 30 weeks!!

I think it's funny that I don't have any belly pics or pics at all between 6 and 9 weeks with either pregnancy- I am too dang sick! I get right into "comfy" clothes when I get home from work and the last thing I want is Ben snapping my photo! By about 9 weeks he gets fed up and has me smile for the camera ;)

This is what I do to let Ben know I am done with the pics already!! Love you babe!

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