31 Weeks and Counting...Appt Update

OK, so technically tomorrow is 31 weeks, but who's counting right?

Today, we had our last "planned" appointment of the calendar year and everything looks great. Today's appointment was just a "consult" so they didn't do full growth measurements like last week, but he did a quick ultrasound to check heartbeats and all 3 look good.
All three boys are head down, which really surprised Dr. Strauss. He said that's really rare with triplets. So my first question was "Does that mean that we'll avoid the C-section?" He said "there's not a chance." Apparently there are only a few places in the country that do vaginal births with triplets, and none of them are around here. There is too much risk because as the first one is being born, it's very difficult to monitor the heartbeats of the other two, so they just don't really do it very much at all for safety reasons. And they NEVER do it at UNC (or anywhere in the state of NC for that matter), so we're still locked in on a C-section, sometime between now and Jan 27th.

Our next scheduled appointment is January 7th (in Chapel Hill). This will be a full scale appt where they check growth, heartbeats, fluid levels, etc, etc. Between now and then, the doctor just wants Melissa to check her blood pressure a few times and if it gets higher than 140 over 90, then call them. Today it was 108 over 55, so it's in good shape for now!

After that, we have another appt scheduled for January 21st...of course, that one is apt to change depending on circumstances.

Melissa is still not ruling out going back to work at the first of the year. Dr. Strauss continues to be amazed at how well she's doing. She still has the philosophy that she'd rather be miserable at work, where she can be distracted, than be miserable at home doing nothing all day. We'll see and she's definitely playing it by ear.

I hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year. Depending on the potential snowfall (we'll post videos and/or pictures if we get snow), and any other crazy events that might happen in the next 8 days (we're hoping nothing crazy happens), this might be the final post of a very wonderful 2010!

Love to all!
Jason-