Last Tuesday, on 20w6d, we had a really good U/S appointment with a great tech. It was our anatomy scan and it was a little rough, because I never finished our anatomy scan with the triplets, so ofcourse that was in my head. But baby girl was moving around and doing all sorts of acrobatics and we left with two thumbs up. And also our previa moved up...YAY!

On Friday, we had our OB appt, which also went without a hitch, the docs are so pleased on how we are doing, minus the cramping and my never ending back pain (which, by the way, I would take anyday just to have my living child in my arms). So our next OB appt is next Friday and our next U/S is in a week and a half.

On Saturday, we celebrated our triplet angels first heavenly birthday. At the end of the day, Mike and I were snuggling together, finally winding down from all of the things we did that day, and baby girl started to kick my lower belly...I quickly grabbed hubby's hand and she did it two more times....hubby finally felt her!!! And how bittersweet that it was on my angels' birthday. I always see those things as signs...because that was a huge first for us. She is moving and rolling alot, but its here and there, nothing on command per say. But I will take it :) I didn't feel the triplets that much, I think they were all squished up in my belly wih no room. Still love thinking about both pregnancies...day dreaming.

Ok, so today. Not such a good day, but everything is fine for now. I woke up around 7, made myself a cup of decaf coffee and was getting ready to get in the shower. My bladder (always full) was calling so I sat down to pee, looked (saw nothing - but I always have to look), and then....I wiped (and looked - I always have to look), and had a good bit of bright red blood. Pause for a second, it this really what I am seeing? Wipe again and look, yup....'hon, wake up, I have some blood'...and we hurried to get dressed and out the door to the ER. *sigh* Crying the whole way to the hospital and hitting traffic, we talked to my SIL who works there and she said to bypass the ER and go straight to L&D triage. She asked if my docs knew I was coming, I said no I called you...silly, I need to remember to call my docs huh! Anyway, I was a mess, we were put immediately into a triage room, I got changed and layed there on that table, again, thinking the worst. The nurse came in, she checked our baby girls' heartbeat and she was moving and the rate was good 145...that was one sigh of relief, but ofcourse any BLM knows its not all that needs to be cleared. My SIL had arrived to see how we were also, and she checked the contraction monitor for me and tried calming our nerves (no contractions). I felt so bad for Mike too, it was like we were preparing ourselves again to tell everyone something might be wrong. I dont want to have him ever go through this again. His face was an open book. We then waited about 15 minutes to see a resident and I had two internal exams and I had so much pressure. The doc told me I did not have a rupture and there was no active bleeding and that my cervix was holding well. They didn't know where the blood came from, but explained sometimes a blood vessel can break. I was allowed to go home (thank you Lord). I really could have gone without todays scare though, all I can try to do is put a positive spin on it and say we did the right thing and we acted quickly, and that now I know what it's like to be back in the hospital again and hopefully I wont go back until July for the birth of our precious baby girl. I guess the tissues I was supposed to donate will not be delivered by me...I will have to ask someone to do it for us. I wish I were stronger, but some things I jut cannot help. We made it thru another day, and thats all I can do. Pray pray pray.

On Wednesday of this week, I will be 22w0d, please pray we keep making these milestones...I thank you.

Since my last post, we have also decided on a name for baby girl. She is now Autumn Marie Reiber...and she is still our baby girl grasshopper too :)

Love to you all xxxooo N