Where on the map are we?

Well, it has been a two weeks for sure.

I am home. This is good. We have with medications and a home pump and monitor system got the contractions down to a minimal as of this morning. This alone is a reason for praise.

Since the contractions and the uterine irritability has improved over the last 24 hours so has the amount of medications that I have had to use so this too will over all help my sugar and my kidneys which the last two weeks have wrecked havoc on.

I go back to the local OB/GYN on Tuesday. The the high risk on Wednesday, we are thinking that they may cancel the Tuesday if the home nursing company continues to feel good about the girls activity and heart rates and the bleed continue to diminish and contractions stay at bay.

Yeah I know there are many factors that dictate each and every hour in our house right now.

Mentally I wasn't expecting this at this point, trying to still wrap my head around everything and in the mean time prepare for a premature birth.

Our prayer list is long and for many people who directly and indirectly are part of our care. Please if you can read over them and include us in your prayers.

Thank you to Carole who is just a great mom and person for checking on me as well as all our well wishers who left us messages. Knowing that your not alone is comforting.

~ Things we are Praying for~

Our short term goal is to remain pregnant this coming week making us 27 weeks on Friday. Ultimately asking that the Lord lets theses babies come into the world when it is best for them and me, he is the ultimate physician and he has a plan.

We hope for better kidney function and better sugar control, less uterine contractions and no more fever or amino leaks so that the babies can continue to grow safely in me.

Please pray that Tom, who is doing a great job, can continue to handle the stress and worry of the financial burden this has placed on us, that he can continue to work until the girls get here and keep the house at best running.

Pray that our daughter Anneliese continues to adjust, recovers from the flu/virus she woke up with this morning and in her heart knows that we love her son much that our absence and tension is not a reflection toward her.

Pray that our family and friends can again continue to help us physically with Anneliese's care and mine, that they find the strength and softness in their hearts not to feel burdened or annoyed by our needs.

Pray that the team of doctors on board can continue to monitor this pregnancy and keep me home until delivery, that they do not become discourage and listens in silence as the Lord works through them to help us.

Pray that the team of nurses at Hagerstown Hospital and Adventist Rockville as well as the Ambulance transport teams continue to do the wonderful caring jobs that they do and provided to me over the last weeks. Kind, gentle and compassionate care is not always an easy quality to come by and I was blessed with it all at all three places.

A special prayer for our Maternal Fetal Medicine doctor who has been incredibly kind and compassionate and personable with us through all out anxieties and stress and fear. May she continue to have the kind hand the wise mind and knowledge to get us to a safe place for the girls to arrive.

For now this our major concerns. Our ultimate goal is to make it to July 4th week. Any time past that would just be wonderful, and short of miraculous. We pray that ultimately we bring both of our girls home,, safe and healthy, that we as a family will be together with little separation and trauma. We pray that my health continue to improve and that my recovery will be short and non-complicated.

Our priorities have changed, but of course, and our goal this weekend to prepare for the girls arrival is to find their names and make our final decisions.

As painfully hard as this is and took for ever for Aubrey and Anneliese, we feel compelled to have them for certain so they are named at the birth just case of the outcomes, which we are trying to avoid thinking of.

We pray that the Lord does not have planned that we lose another of our babies.