Vizcarrondo Family: 23 Weeks - What A Rough Week!

Made it to 23 weeks!!!! Only one more week to reach viability... Hurray!!!

The past week really has not been been easy for me at all! I had my ultrasound appointment on Friday, November 1st. It should have been less then an hour but of course the girls were no cooperating and therefore the ultrasound lasted 2 hours and they still were unable to get all the measurements that they wanted to get. However, the Doctors weren't concerned and did say that the babies look and are doing great growth wise. Yay!!!! After my appointment I was starting to feel a little sick like maybe a cold was coming so I tried to drink up my vitamin C and lots of water. That night I ate Pizza for dinner and went straight to bed without digesting the food so needless to say I was so sick to my stomach that I didn't sleep a minute on Friday night. On Saturday my husband I headed out early to Voorhees so that we could order our cake for the Baby Shower. We get there, order the cake and then realize that we don't have the owl pictures for the cake. We go to Target down the street, I turned my purse inside out searching for my USB only to remember that I left it at home connected to the computer - an hour away from where we were. Frustrated and cranky from having no sleep the night before I tell my husband to forget about it and that I would come during the week to bring the picture. At this point it is 11am and we are on our way home. I'm now frustrated, disappointed, cranky and starving. I huffed and puffed, I moaned, I twisted and turned in my seat. Tito was annoyed and I started crying as it suddenly hit me that I don't function with no sleep and once the triplets are home I'm pretty sure I'm going to have many sleepless nights - that thought started the water works! On Sunday I woke up feeling like a truck ran me over. The cough and stuffiness were horrible and I couldn't take anything for it. I stayed in bed until about 3pm. I was getting ready to go have dinner with my parents when I started feeling my stomach tighten and then loosen. I got scared when I realized that it was happening very often (about every 3-5 minutes). I called the Doctors emergency line and within 3 minutes my OBGYN was calling me back. She told me to drink 3 glasses of water and to lay on my left side immediately. I did what she said and I felt better instantly. I was still having some Braxton Hicks here and there but nothing major. On Monday, I went to training for work and started having the Braxton Hicks every 1-2 minutes. I called again and was told to go straight to the hospital. I was scared, nervous, angry, annoyed but I managed to get to the hospital with Tito. From the second I walked into the hospital I was treated so well! They took me quickly, ran some blood work, strapped to the contraction machine, checked all the babies heart beats and connect me to the IV. My contractions were exactly 2 minutes a part - with no pain. The first bag of IV was on fast flow and within 45 minutes was completely into my system. By the end of the 2nd bag my contractions were about 20 minutes apart. The Doctor came in and said that my body was in distress (overworked) and that I was extremely dehydrated. I was discharged on the condition that I would leave and drink a 12 ounce bottle of water every hour on the dot for the following 72 hours. I was so so so so happy to not get admitted and so happy to know that I was getting better. I went straight home and stayed in bed the rest of the night. I'm finally feeling better. But it's time to let things go. My body is telling me to relax and rest and that's exactly what I'm doing to do. I know many people won't understand but I have to do what I have to do. I'm not carrying one baby here... I'm carrying 3! I've been having these anxiety feelings in my chest every now and then and I was told that this was due to my body being in distress and working for three babies....So it's been a crazy week, my cold didn't help at all with the dehydration. I had many sleepless nights. Someone people really tested my patience with their craziness and ridiculousness. I was cranky, annoyed and felt like hitting everyone in the face with a chair... but then I told myself that it's just all the hormones, its the pregnancy, this really isn't you Jackie... LOL I found myself talking my emotions down at least 1 to 2 times a day.... Don't mind me... LOL ... Heres to a better week...

Baby Shower
Man o Man.... I have been very busy this past week with preparations for the baby shower this upcoming Saturday. My house looks like Party City threw up in here. There are centerpieces, favors, glue guns, glue sticks, feathers, table clothes, cups, plates etc. On Tuesday (the Holiday) my mother and I went out and finalized the cake order. We also ordered the subs. I know you must be thinking why I'm so involved in planning my own shower.... I have really bad OCD and I'm not the type of person that can sit around waiting and counting on other people to do something for me, therefore I did it myself. It doesn't help that since I'm excepting triplets it would be kind of hard to surprise me with a shower when no one knows when I'll be on house arrest, I mean bed rest. LOL... All in all, its all coming together and I'm so excited to spend this Saturday with my friends and family and all those who were our cheerleaders throughout the many years of trying to conceive. PS: I'm also so so so so so so so excited and happy that my husband will have a few of his cousins at the shower. I'm just to happy that he will have family of his own there. I'm sure he's just as excited.

Statistics:
Week 22 - 162 lbs
Week 23 - 167 (I gained 5 pounds this past week!)
Cravings - Vanilla soft serve ice cream on a cone ;)
Baby Movement - Oh I feel them all the time! The twins are in the upper part of my belly and Hadassah is laying right under my belly button.
Frustrations - At night when I need to turn over or get up to go to the bathroom my muscles are sore and cause lots of pain. Not to mention those darn charlie horses.

Here is my belly shot for this week: