Day 24 - Home?!

I am 28 weeks and 1 day pregnant today! 28 weeks was the first big milestone and 32 weeks is the next, so I'm grateful these babies are still cooking. When talk of me going home first started, I guessed that the doctors wouldn't let me out until I hit the 28 week mark. Obviously with all the ups and downs I stopped trying to guess when I could go home...but apparently my first instinct was CORRECT!!!! Not that I had anything to do with it. You can thank Scarlett and Shayla for their good behavior. 

Last weekend was a rough one with lots of decelerations as you may have read in my previous blog. Since Monday morning I have been monitored every 6 hours and there have been NO big decels. Yesterday my doc came in the room and told me if the girls behaved until Friday then I could go home. I didn't want to jinx it and I was actually going to keep it from Eric until it was a sure thing. But then he called me all stressed about his finals and juggling Kinsey so I wanted to share the POTENTIAL good news. 

This morning Eric stopped by the hospital after his final exam. The doctor checked my cervix to make sure I'm not dilated, which I'm not (thank goodness). Scarlett and Shayla looked good all night and after one last monitoring we would be good to go. My nurse said the monitoring would take 20 minutes. Eric started packing and after 20 minutes no one was taking my monitors off. What?! The nurse eventually came in and said they were looking for accelerations in the heart rates before letting me go (it shows maturity in babies). I wouldn't let Eric take anything down to the car because I started doubting if I would go home today. After almost an hour of monitoring the heart rates FINALLY showed some accelerations and we got the okay to leave today. 

Me in all my morning glory after finding out we were going home. Not sure why Eric didn't want to retake this pic... 

 I was kind of nervous to go home. It's like I just took my security blanket off and now I don't get to make sure the babies' hearts are beating every few hours. 

Things I'll Miss: 

-Being waited on

-Having a maid

-Clean sheets every day

-Not having to change a diaper

-Room service

-Hearing babies' heart beats

-Cable TV

Things I WON'T Miss:

-Being woken countless times in the middle of the night

-Not leaving my hospital room

-Continuous monitoring

-Taking a million pills a day (which I'll probably still have to do)

-My food taking too long to arrive

-Nurses constantly asking "Is there anything I can do for you?" even though they asked minutes earlier

Car ride home.

So what does this mean moving forward? The doctor kept saying just "take it easy." To me this means caring for Kinsey and nothing else, but apparently to them it means sitting on the couch and getting up to go to the bathroom. No cooking and no cleaning. We'll see how long I can last with those rules. I can just imagine the state of our house by the time Eric is done with school. And if he did all the cooking I will probably starve. Hmmm...so for anyone who was looking to help (and still want to--no pressure), I would say meals are the number one at this point since Eric is focused on finals until next Friday. 

We cannot thank everyone enough for all the prayers, support, and childcare our family has received during this difficult time. I think the holidays have meant even more to us this year than ever.