30 weeks

Today marks 30 weeks.  It is very exciting!  We saw the nurse practitioner today and everything is looking great.  She did an ultrasound in the room to check their heart rates and they're doing great.  C was lying on top of B again, but we still got to see him.  I didn't think there was room in there for them to rotate at all, but somehow A has completely flipped so that she is now breech and B's head is now where his feet were 2 weeks ago.  Also, we got to see that B has hair and C has fat rolls on her neck.  It was very cute!  I'm hoping the girls also have hair, but if they don't, we will still love our bald daughters!  And hopefully they all have fat rolls when they're born.  We want fat, healthy babies!  Our next growth ultrasound is in 2 weeks and my mom and Kirt are going to come with us!  Kirt has never been to one and my mom hasn't been to an ultrasound since the very first one, which was an exciting one, but she hasn't seen them since they've started looking like actual babies, so I can't wait!

During the day I'm entertained by the babies, even though they aren't here yet.  They're getting so big that I can actually feel body parts when I'm touching my belly, so during the day I rub my belly and try to figure out what body part I'm feeling and which baby it belongs to.  They move so much now.  Here are a few weird pictures I've gotten of my belly.  

This is C pushing out at the very top

I think this is a butt sticking out

This is B pushing out

After our appointment today we got to tour the NICU in the Pavilion and it was awesome!  We saw a room with triplets in it!  The parents were in there and I wanted to go and talk to them, but I figured that would be inappropriate.  The rooms are so nice.  We can sleep in the room and they have showers so the nurse giving us the tour said we could live there if we wanted to. Unfortunately it is only a level 3 NICU, so if the babies need level 1, 2, or 4 care, they will be transferred to Texas Children's.  Also, the Pavilion only has 33 NICU rooms, so if they don't have room for the babies, they will have to go to TCH.  I'm hoping it all works out.

My contractions are getting worse at night.  I'm not sure why, but the last few nights have been pretty bad.  I feel bad because Mark usually wakes up because I'm making so much noise.  I was concerned that I might be dilating or something, but I'm not.  I described the contractions to the nurse practitioner today and she said its just my pelvic bones starting to separate.  WHAT???  I made her repeat that information to make sure she was saying what I thought she was saying.  She said it can be very painful.  I was like, yes, I know, trust me.  I'm getting very big, but people keep telling me I'm not as big as they would expect.  The nurse that gave us the NICU tour was shocked that I was walking at 30 weeks with triplets.  It's hard to walk for too long, but I'm doing fine with it since I don't walk very much.  I still like to do things on my own when I can. Here is my belly at 30 weeks!  It's kind of oddly shaped in this picture because C was moving and A was kind of high up there.

We have the car seats set up in the van.  We have to get them inspected to make sure they're installed correctly, but they're very cute!

Mark's Aunt Terry made us canopies for the car seats.  I have a coworker who had her baby at 35 weeks and she said that having a canopy over the car seat typically keeps strangers from randomly touching her baby, so I decided we need them because I don't want strangers touching my babies.  Terry brought the canopies over today and they are adorable!

She also brought over the valance that she made and it is perfect!  The nursery is finally done!!!

I've started organizing all of their clothes and we have a lot!  I love washing their clothes and folding them.  It's one of the few things that I can do sitting down and I like to be able to help Mark get everything ready.  He does so much on his own since I can't move much, and I like to pitch in when I can.  I've also washed the cloth diapers and liners and organized those.  I had to order more because I realized we only had 30, so after this last order comes in, we should have about 80 diapers.  That should last us about 2 1/2 days, which will be perfect.  While I was searching for good deals on cloth diapers, I found cow print ones and well, I couldn't NOT buy them, so each baby has a cow print diaper!  They are my favorite!

I will end this post with my favorite Mark picture of the past 2 weeks.  He walked outside and said, "Look!  We can carry all 3 babies at the same time!"