One year ago today...

I was admitted to the hospital to await the arrival of my boys. I had my weekly doctor appointment that morning and because I had gained 9lbs in the last week and my blood pressure was still high, she said "You are scaring me, you need to get admitted today and be monitored for pre-eclampsia". While I was at the office I also had my growth scan and she estimated the boys weights, the heaviest she estimated would be 3lbs 12ozs.They all ended up to be bigger than that! I had been expecting this to happen at some point so I had my bag with us and off to the hospital we went.


It was pretty scary not knowing if it would be their birthday or how long we would wait to have them. But they did some tests and I said if all was ok I wanted to go home. They all thought I was nuts, but I was adamant that home is where I wanted to be. The doctor came in that afternoon and said the tests showed that I had pre-eclampsia and that we would do a 24 hour urine and just wait and see day by day. So I had to finally surrender my freedom that I had fought so hard to maintain. Funny now how sitting on the couch all day long felt like freedom at that point. Besides a scare at 27 weeks which resulted in a 4 day hospital stay, this was the first time I had ever been in a hospital as a patient overnight. Luckily, I work in HR for the hospital system where I delivered so I was familiar with things and I think they treated me a little extra special. Who wants to tick off someone from HR,right?? Actually my first 2 years in HR I worked at the hospital I had the boys. I never would of imagined myself back there at any point in my life having triplets! So day 1 ended with me worrying about the dogs and how we were so lucky that our friends across the street became our lifesavers and came over to take the dogs out and feed them. Because they were our first set of "babies" I just felt so guilty that they were all alone. Weird what you think of while waiting to meet your new babies.
And to end this post, here is a beautiful shot of me all comfy in my hospital bed, right before Rick left for the night. That looks so painful now!