24 weeks 3 days

Yesterday I did not think we would make it to this point. We are praising God for another day!

Yesterday was an interesting day. At one point I was dilated to a 6 and 20% effaced with a bulging bag of water. I was contracting every 6-8 minutes. They had me on 4 grams of mag per hour which ended up resulting in a mag level of 8.2 (they want it between 4-7). So needless to say I was not feeling well. I could hardley walk, I was on 4 liters of oxygen, it was hard for me to see and difficult to stay awake, but I was too uncomfortable to fall asleep. Later on things settled down and my cervix has been steady at a 4, 60% effaced, and no bulging bag of water. My contractions are now about 30 minutes apart, my mag is down to 2.5 grams per hour, my mag level was a 7 last time they checked, and my oxygen is down to 2 liters. They are going to let me have breakfast which I am very excited about since I have not eatten since dinner wednesday night. Unfortunately ice cream & oreos is not on the breakfast menu :)

So today we are hanging out & watching my contractions at this mag dose. I got another dose of betamethasone (steroids for babies lungs) yesterday morning and I will get another one this morning. The twinners continue to be their normal fiesty, stubborn selves through all of this. They are constantly moving & eluding the heart rate monitors. Every time the docs try to nail down their position (vertex, breech, transverse) they change and briefly settle in someplace else. Weird, they do not sound at all like Dave & I's offspring :)

Please continue to pray. Each hour is a blessing. Pray that when theses twinners are born God gives them health, strength, and a lot of fight. Thanks for the prayers and support, we can feel it.