3 Hammocks at the New Dr.'s Office

Our three little ones were resting peacefully stacked above each other in three little hammocks. Well, two of them were on siesta, the other was doing somersaults in between. My granddad spent some time on a World War I destroyer, while around the WWII time period, so he knows what it's like to be crunched up like that next to a noisy neighbor, the engine room. So I'm not gonna lie, this is my favorite pic...my kid's on siesta in a hammock taking the food before mom gets it...I could swear that's a Tostito in his/her hand, and he/she is smiling because....oops. last one! Is that really much different than it is now?

Here's a pic of the little guy/girl on the top bunk looking at us and waving, we couldn't get it in one pic but they are stacked like a triple-decker sandwich

Mindy thought they had moved before the appointment and it seems they are trying to rearrange to get space for their next growth spurt, I'm explaining to them that the housing market is not what it once was and they need to learn to share space.

They are between 11 weeks 5 days and 12 weeks and everything is looking good so far.  Our new doctor at PCI http://www.perinataliowa.com/ seems really nice as does Amie, the PA working with him. They took Mindy's background information and some blood as well, now that she's bigger veins are available.

The sonographer tried to determine gender and she thought she saw a boy and a girl but, she said she would be guessing so the big day now, is going to be April 22nd. We're making it past week twelve so now it's all about keeping a competent cervix, if not they just put a stitch in? Sounded like they just staple the kids in until we're ready...weird. 

Now, it's just a cruel waiting game, are they still there? are they healthy? When are they going to come...our doctors are very good with an individualized approach...I still get nervous before each appointment and just want the sonographer to turn on the doppler so I can hear the kids' heart beats, then we can move on with the show, which for the un-initiated, takes about 2 hours for each appointment

So here is the "4D" image of one of them, it's a 3D image in real time so that makes it 4D, wikipedia explanation here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4D_ultrasound

Here's another 4D image:

Here's a kind of side pic of two of them together.

...I made it FBO a couple of hours ago and the Des Moines Register Headlines read...

"Tornado sirens wailed in portions of west-central and central Iowa as a band of severe weather hurtled through the state this evening. A tornado warning was issued for the Des Moines area until 7:15 p.m. Authorities reported sightings of funnel clouds in the Des Moines area."

Coincidence???

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P.S. We keep getting questions about what we used to get to triplets, did we want to become Octamom and dad? No, we didn't use IVF or any kind of injectible drugs, it was Femara and Glucophage, because Clomid did nothing, and in the words of our OB before we went on to the perionatologists, "that [triplets] never happens [with Femara]." Never! Hah! I read that twins happen 1 in 100 but triplets are so rare I can't find any instances...