Monday, July 23, 2007

8 days and counting (one more day until 33 weeks!)

We visited Rachelle at the hospital last night and she was doing really well. She was actually having fewer contractions last night than she had been having in the previous two weeks. They weighed her yesterday and I thought I heard them say that she should expect about a pound a day until she delivers. I haven't been able to update our progress page lately so I thought I would include it here. I need to take another belly measurement of her but last week's was 53 inches.

Rachelle talked with one of her doctors yesterday and the doctor said that she hadn't seen any singletons that had gone home with their mom's when they were born at 34 weeks. This was actually a bit comforting for Rachelle since she would like a few days to recuperate before the babies get here. However, we have heard of other situations where the baby or babies actually did go home with the mom. We figure that even if any of the babies go home with her, we will have enough help that things she should have some time to rest before the real work begins.

In other news, I thought I would include some more pictures. The first is from when Rachelle's brother Ryan visited on Saturday.


Also, while Ryan was here on Saturday we took some pictures at the pool. We got one of Riley doing a dive into the pool:



This has really been a great summer so far and I hope that it continues to be great going into next week:)

4 comments:

Kari said...

Good luck to you guys. I found your blog through Julianne, a friend.

I hope these last few days before the babies get here are relaxing.

And I actually have 1 child that was born at 34 weeks and 5 days and he did, miraculously, get to come home from the hospital with me.

But I'm sure it's way different with Quints!!

holmesfamily8 said...

As a fellow "mom of multiples", and LDS parent I have been following your family's story for a while now. I am AMAZED at how well your wife is doing!!! I had twins last year and only made it to 34.2 weeks. Thanks for the interesting updates, can't wait to see the beautiful baby pictures of all five of them- and names too! Good luck, and hang in there!

lltanderson said...

i'm so excited for you guys!

way to go, riley!

-lori

McKay said...

Keep the pictures comin', Jayson! Those are pretty funny. But why is Riley diving toward the side of the pool?!