Just got the latest update and the boys are great. I call thoughout the day and thankfully they have been boring updates!! Around noon Justin and Noah came off of the CPAP!! The are both on the nasal canuals (however you spell it), basically nasal prongs!! I can't wait to see them!! They are tolerating them well. Brady's here and there but nothing so far to be concerned with. Justin is doing well with the lengthened feeds and noah and Mason are eating well also. Noah is up to 2 pounds 6 ounces! Finally over that hump. Hopefully he is going to go up from here. Both Mason and Justin are at 3 pounds 2 ounces tonight. They are going to look so big when I am finally able to get back to the hospital. Other than that, no new news. My eye is looking better so I am hoping I can go back by Friday. Bob definitely has pink eye now too. They actually sent him home from work. I go in for my bldwrk tomorrow so fingers crossed my INR is up and I can stop the injections!
Logan is back at school and doing well. His favorite word is no. He is so cute I can't stand it. He makes iteasier to deal with having the triplets in the NICU. He keeps me busy and on my toes. The past 3 weeks have flown by but in so many ways it has been the longest 3 weeks of my life.
My OB called today to check in. he is such a great guy. He checks in on the babies and that really means a lot to us. I like to know that everyone is looking out for them.
Thanks as always to everyone following the blog, the wonderful emails and comments. They mean so much to us and get us through each day knowing we have so many wonderful people in our lives.
Good night.

We just called for the last update of the night. The boys are doing well. justin continues to have some feeding issues. He had a fairly large aspirate at 9 so they are waiting to see if he digests it before the midnight feed. They changed his feeding so it is given to him over 30 minutes to help with reflux. Mason is at 3 pounds one ounce still and eating like a champ. They fortified his milk with extra calories so hopefully he will put on the grams! Noah is up to 2 pounds 5 ounces again. He seems to go back and forth but now that he is geting the extra calories also I am hopeful he will start to increase consistantly. All 3 had limited brady's today which is great news!!

As for me, I spoke to the hematologist today and I still have to continue the injections. Very depressing. But my eye is clearing up and I am hopeful I will be back at the hospital by Thursday or Friday at the latest. I can't wait to see the boys. I miss them so much!!!!! The nurses are so sweet about everything. They are taking such good care of them. Bob is now complaining of an itchy eye but I am hopeful it is sympathy pain:-)

I spoke to the ICN a couple times last night. My doctor said I will likely have to stay away for 5 days. It is such a horrible feeling to not be able to go see them. I know they are being well taken care of but I just want to hold them and see for myself how they are doing. The nurses updated me and all three seem to be doing well. Justin threw up his 6 PM feed last night. Not quite sure what happened there. He tolerated his 9PM and only threw up a little of his midnight. I asked the nurse ifshe thought he had a problem and she didn't think so but of course I will know more when I call this morning after rounds. He is holding steady at around 3 pounds which is great. his IV came out yesterday and that of course casued him to lose 40 grams. He is back on CPAP and doing well with that. When I called at 3 AM his nurse Ellen said he looked like he was relaxing on a beach. Mason is doing great. They added calories to his food so hopefully he will start putting on the weight. he is doing well on the nasal prongs at around 24 percent oxygen. Room air is 21% so considering he is on the prongs, that's pretty good. Noah is doing better. They didn't change anything for him other than making sure that the secretions are suctioned more regularly as that seems to coincide with the brady's. he had a good night with no brady's. He is up to full feeds and they have started to add calories. He is hovering at 2 pounds 4 ounces so they are really wanting him to gain some weight.I hope the addd calories do it. He is such a little peanut. I am a little worried about justin and his feeding but hopefully he doesn't have an infection or anything and it was just a random event.

Tonight there is a support group for parents of children in the ICN. I am going to go and see what it's about. Maybe it will be good to talk to other parents going through the same thing.

My parents are headed back to Florida tomorrow. I am so sad to see them go. They have been such a tremendous help to us along with my sister Allison and Chrisanne when she comes down from NYC. They have been here for 3 months and I have gotten used to having them around. I know they will be back when the babies come home (i will certainly need the help) but it has been nice having them so close. I know they are anxious to get out of this cold weather though. I am sick of winter already!!

That's all for now.

I called the ICN this morning and Justin and mason are doing well. Noah had a lot of brady's last night. They drew some blood and will decide on rounds this morning what the plan will be. I unfortunately have contracted pink eye. I asked if I could visit and just not hold the babies but they told me I am not allowed. I am devastated. They are going to call me back and let me know how long I have to stay away. I am waiting to call my doctor and see what I need to do. I have not had this since I was a child. I only hope that I did not have it when I last held the babies. I am so glad I did not hold them Sat. and that I stayed home yesterday. I had a slight sore throat and thought it would be better not to bring any virus to the ICN. I am headed to the dr. as I will need clearence from them to go back to the ICN. Plus I have to get labs drawn to see if I can stop with the injections for the clot. Hopefully it will be a good day!!

Bob's Entry
Another weekend has passed and the triplets are doing pretty good considering they were born 12 weeks premature. I spent most of my weekend with Logan, but got to the hospital today. I held Mason for about 30 minutes. He had his eyes wide open looking up at me. I said hello to him and I could have sworn he smiled. I am sure he was just passing gas or something. It was a smile to me. Mason is 2lbs 15oz. He was born at 2lbs 14oz. Noah is almost at full feeds along with Mason. He is still on the CPAP for his breathing. Mason is on the nose tubes. Noah still looks like the little peanut he was 2 weeks ago. He is back at his birthweight. I will try and go to the hospital tomorrow night and hold Noah. I try to spread it out so I rotate the order that I hold them. Justing is 3lb 1oz. He was born at 2lbs 14oz so he is gaining nicely. He was taken off of the CPAP this morning but put back on later this evening because he had 6-8 brady's. He needed help remembering to breath. Other than that, he is doing great and all of my boys are on track for another healty week. So far so good, but a long way to go.

I took Logan for his haircut this weekend, which he did not like at all. So, I took him to Toys-R-Us and bought him whatever he pointed at. Actually, I got him a little powered quad and a new little chair for him to sit in. He likes them a lot. We had a good weekend together. Tracey is feeling better and has started driving. It was tough for her to have to depend on others to take her when she wanted to go anywhere. She is vey independent as most of you know. Overall, we have had a few stressers over the past weeks, but nothing that we cannot handle together. I truly love being married and having a big family to have fun with in the future. Life is looking good for 2009. It has to be a little better then that last few months of 2008 (other than the birth of the boys). Tracey is going to see the boys tomorrow after her follow up appointment so more to come tomorrow. Goodnight to all.

I tried to write last night but bob accidentally changed the settings and everything I wrote was translated into arabic or something. Anyway, I went to the hospital and was able to hold Mason for about an hour. He was so comfy and warm and it felt so good to just rock him. My mom and dad were there with me. All the boys are doing well. Noah had his pick line taken out and they did not have to put a peripheral IV since he is on day 10 of his feeds and tolerating them well. So hopefully he won't have to get another stick. Although he has not been transfused at all and I fear that may happen soon. Justin got his pick line out also but they did put in a peripheral IV for his fluids since he is not quite as far as Noah and Mason in the feeds. He should be at full feeds in the next day or so and they will think about taking it out if he continues to tolerate them. Mason had a bit of a scare overnight. His belly swelled up quite a bit and he threw up. They think it is related to the cpap which can push air into their belllies. They gave him a supository and held his next feed. He was able to go to the bathroom and they switched his cpap to the 2 prongs in his nose and the swelling went down and he is fine now. They did an xray to be sure and it was normal. When I saw him today he looked good adn comfortable on his belly. That is definitely his favorite position. When I saw them today their nurses were very busy the whole time I was there and so I didn't get to hold anyone. Which is ok, they really were so comfy I hate disturbing them. I didn't love their nurses today. Judy was there who is one of Justin's primary's but the other 2 were new to me and they just weren't quite as kind as the usual ones. I know I have to get used to different nurses but like the ones that normally are there and I will be happy when they are back. It still is part of the holidays so a lot of them have off. Other than that, thing were quiet which is nice. Logan is feeling better and back to his old self. He will not be happy to go back to school having gotten used to being home so much. Hopefully I will be able to spend some more quality time with him over the next couple weeks.
That's all the news for now. Hope you are all having a nice relaxing weekend!

Happy New Year! We are so looking forward to 2009! Yesterday I went to the hospital with our friend Rita. Rita has triplets also and delivered at 28 weeks. Her babies are 10 months old now and Bob and I took great comfort knowing they are strong and healthy. Before i delivered the babies Bob kept saying to me, Rita's babies are healthy and beautiful and ours will be too. It was nice to take her to see them. I know it brought back memories for her and it was good to talk with her about everything. The boys were good and i held justin for a bit. I knew bob was going after work and so I asked them to hold mason's feed so he could hold him. Justin had a couple brady's while we were there. Noah and mason were fine. Bob went to see them with his dad and held Mason. We called after midnight to wish them a happy new year. Justin had been having a rough night. he had a several A's and B's as they call them. (that refers to Brady's and Apnea's) The nurse said he looked like a dishrag. i didn't appreciate the reference. Bob actually told the charge nurse she had said that. It's just not appropriate to make that reference to a mother. The charge nurse apologized and said that she was one of their best nurses. Still, it wasn't very nice. But she meant he looked pale and sick. They were waiting for the blood to transfuse him. Noah and Mason were fine. This morning i called and the transfusion had helped Justin a lot and he was having a much better day. Bob went to see them this afternoon with his mom, sister and brother. I spent the day with logan which was really nice. He is finally feeling better and I knew he was having a hard time this week. eveytime the doorbell rang he would yell NO because he knew it meant I was going to leave. It felt good to stay with him. All 3 of the babies were doing well. They are all increasing their feeds which is great. I can even bring in more milk which has taken over our freezer!! They all have minor episodes. A's and B's here and there but nothing to be concerned about. I love boring updates!! I just called to get the night time update before I go to bed. Noah had a bit of an aspirate at 9 so they held his feeding but we'll see how that goes at the midnight feed. he is on day 9 of the 10 day advance which is great. Both Mason and justin are doing well. the nurses said they felt like they had no news. Which again was fine with me!!
Tomorrow I will go see them early in the morning while my sister watches Logan. That way I can spend the afternoon with him. I feel so torn. Starting next week I will be able to drive and that will help so i don't have to rely on people to drive me around.
Happy NEw Year to everyone. I hope you all have a healthy and happy 2009!!