Triple Trouble Continued…

I’m 15 weeks now and the shock of triplets is wearing off. We’ve had time to get used to it and start thinking of the practicalities. I can’t wait to get started on decorating the nursery and I’ve started buying bits and bobs. Our family have started on a baby box for us and a dear family friend is adding to it – 300 nappy bags x3, triple pack of 48 new born nappies x3, baby wipes box of 9 x 3 and so on. Everyone is getting in to the times 3 swing of things – it’s great and I’m over the moon but it’s been non-stop baby talk.

The kids at school ask me all of the time, how big will you get? Have you thought of names? Can we name one? Are you sure there are 3 babies? I’ve had to challenge them to finding new topics of conversation at dinner time. Everyone wants to know about the babies and I feel like I’m disappearing as a human in my own right. My brain is going ga ga talking babies.

I don’t seem to have grown much this week either. Do they grow in spurts? I just seemed to grow non stop for the first 14 weeks and slowing down so suddenly has started to make me nervous. I’m worried that I’m not giving them enough nutrition but I’m trying really hard to balance my diet with green stuff on top of pickled onion flavour corn snacks which, by the way, I think is a marvel that I’ve limited myself to one snack size bag every other day. I don’t class this as a craving, I’ve merely become partial to them. Corn snacks and milkshakes – a good source of corn (a whole grain) and calcium.

I’ve just been reading more on twin to twin transfusion which has also scared me a little after I’d just managed to put all of those thoughts to the back of my mind. I get nose bleeds every morning. The other morning I suffered 3 nose bleeds in the space of an hour but I’ve read it’s normal – I’ll ask at the hospital. I’ve bought a book on coping with multiple birth pregnancies but it still hasn’t arrived and I ordered it a week ago. I need to read and reassure myself that I’m doing everything I can to ensure my babies will be delivered safely and in the best of health. I need to prepare for what is to come, there’s no room for surprises right now. My next scan is Wednesday, at least then I’ll know if they have grown enough and if they are developing as they should. I can ask more questions and try to put my mind at rest.