I know you come for the pictures, but please do stay for the blogging.

Busy busy day today. I think it will be the last time Tobie schedules 3 appointments in one day. We started the day with a GI appointment. Cole’s weight gain isn’t spectacular, but it’s better than it was previously. Whatever Tobie’s feeding him, it’s working. Cole’s right around 15 pounds 10 ounces. It seems like he’s been a hair over 15 pounds forever. We are going to try Cole on a different constipation medicine. He has trouble taking the lactulose which is kind of weird. Lactulose has a corn syrup consistency, but for some reason, Cole chokes on it. Strange, but it happens. Dr. S doesn’t want to see us for 3 months. Yowsers! It’s like these doctors are trying to get rid of us! Can you imagine, we won’t have any doctor’s appointments for months and months. It’s like we have real babies! Real babies I tell you!

Right after the GI appointment we had an OB appointment. I’ll get back to that appointment in a minute. So after the OB appointment we had a pulmonology appointment for both babies. I was looking at the doctor’s notes from that appointment. On Paige’s, it says ‘No Change’ in about 3 spots. Nice! They are effectively done with her! We are going to wean Cole off his diuretic and watch him like a hawk to make sure he doesn’t accumulate any fluid. Cole still shows some signs of chronic lung disease so we really need to make sure he doesn’t get sick. The doctor wants to see both babies in about 3 months. Yep, another doctor trying to get rid of us! It’s an epidemic I tell you!

So back to the OB appointment. We’re a little confused. We didn’t meet with any doctors, it was just our weekly cervix check. Ah, our good friend the cervix. One day I’ll look you up online and figure out what you really are, but for today, you are starting to piss us off. Basically every week we measure the length of Tobie’s cervix. Cervix shortening tells the doctors something is going on. Well this time, her cervix measured shorter than last time, but still long enough that it doesn’t hit the “worry threshold”. Here’s the thing about these exams, it’s kind of subjective. We had a different tech than the last time measure us so there is room for inconsistency.

The problem is, we’ve been down this road before. Last year with the trips Tobie’s cervix was nice and long with no change. Than at 19 weeks, it shortened by 1 cm or so, but still longer than the “worry threshold”. Then on her next weekly exam her cervix was gone. Do you see where I’m going here? Yeah we are a little freaked. Our nurse, who has been with us since last year told us not to freak out yet. Yeah last year Tobie was contracting more than most home builders (I still got it!). This pregnancy, she’s not contracting at all and feels pretty darn good all things considered. We’re supposed to get a call tomorrow from a doctor just to talk and get some reassurance. All things considered, if we didn’t have the perinatal history we have, this wouldn’t be a big deal and we would probably stroll along blissfully in this pregnancy. All of this just makes it difficult to really enjoy being pregnant.