It will be challenging though... we have a lot ahead of us.
For starters, this pregnancy has definitely been different from a singleton pregnancy! Thank goodness I am fortunately blessed with good health and my body seems to handle pregnancy generally well.
With my singleton, I never got very large. I frequently jogged from point A to B while doing things and didn't feel terribly limited (just at the very end did my belly start to bump into my legs a bit if I bent over to pick stuff up, necessitating an occasional sumo-style squat). I could do any work I needed to, piling brush and such like. I mostly just slept and ate a bit more, haha. That said I had worked at a saw mill until 5mo into that pregnancy and so was in very good shape. (Less so at the onset of this one; I find it harder to be as active when I'm trying to watch a baby/toddler. That won't likely be made easier with 3 newborns!)
This time, I am feeling more of the drawbacks that are common for pregnant women, and perhaps then some. Though I can't be sure what others experience and every pregnancy and person are different.
I became very, very large very quickly. I guess some people think I'm not as big as they would expect from a mom of triplets. I feel big though, haha. My belly sticks out nearly a foot past my chest now! I actually experienced hip pains this time around (yay for me!). I have bounced back and forth between being ravenous to miserably full, sometimes after only a few bites. The worst part was I got a kidney stone or such shortly after finding out that there were 3 babies. Then at around 32wks I experienced something similar, but I think that it may have actually been a baby pinching a ureter to a kidney. That lasted a good while, and still causes slight discomfort now and then, but I found that leaning forward lessened the pressure on my kidneys, so I ended up spending a lot of time that way in a manner that actually seems to help keep my hips aligned. Now my hip pains are pretty much nonexistent!
My current primary adversary is a lovely itch that is apparently specific to a certain few lucky pregnant women, haha. It's called PUPPPS, and is more common in women carrying large babies, or multiples.
But... here we are heading for 36wks gestation! All things considered, I have been so extremely fortunate for having a compatatively very easy triplet pregnancy (now that the hip pains are gone I'm still feeling very mobile! I just try to lie down and take it easy as much as possible, being cautious to prevent premature labor or rupture of membranes; also, ya know, I'm feeling tired more often) and it's all so worth it if we can keep going until they are able to be born at a point where they are completely ready to breathe, eat, etc on their own. No NICU/lengthy hospital stays, please!
We have been staying with my parents, primarily so that I have someone who can actively play with my daughter while I'm trying to take it easy. Tim is gone for most of the day, and when he is home he usually has a lot to do, so he usually isn't able to. I'm refraining from running around with her as much as I usually would for fear of accidentally making these babies come early. (Though goodness, I want to be doing that still and it's hard not to!)
It's also nice to have a bathroom that I don't have to go far to use, or haul water, and, the next biggest thing... it was costing us a LOT to heat that RV, running the generator 24/7 as well as the propane. It's a long story, but our setup isn't ideal and there are lots of little issues with it. It isn't the best way to go RV living in a North Idaho winter. I would have tried to fix it more if I could, but circumstances being what they are I didn't feel like I really could.
But it's warming up now, and Tim has been going back to the RV, staying there some and working on repairs with the generator, as well as other little things. I'm thinking that if things keep going well we can move back into the RV here soon! At least we ought to be able to bring our babies home there, soon... and that would be great, as I am a sort who likes my privacy.
Hopefully these babies give us some more time to get prepared, and they're all healthy and ready for this great big world when they come! :)
My current primary adversary is a lovely itch that is apparently specific to a certain few lucky pregnant women, haha. It's called PUPPPS, and is more common in women carrying large babies, or multiples.
But... here we are heading for 36wks gestation! All things considered, I have been so extremely fortunate for having a compatatively very easy triplet pregnancy (now that the hip pains are gone I'm still feeling very mobile! I just try to lie down and take it easy as much as possible, being cautious to prevent premature labor or rupture of membranes; also, ya know, I'm feeling tired more often) and it's all so worth it if we can keep going until they are able to be born at a point where they are completely ready to breathe, eat, etc on their own. No NICU/lengthy hospital stays, please!
We have been staying with my parents, primarily so that I have someone who can actively play with my daughter while I'm trying to take it easy. Tim is gone for most of the day, and when he is home he usually has a lot to do, so he usually isn't able to. I'm refraining from running around with her as much as I usually would for fear of accidentally making these babies come early. (Though goodness, I want to be doing that still and it's hard not to!)
It's also nice to have a bathroom that I don't have to go far to use, or haul water, and, the next biggest thing... it was costing us a LOT to heat that RV, running the generator 24/7 as well as the propane. It's a long story, but our setup isn't ideal and there are lots of little issues with it. It isn't the best way to go RV living in a North Idaho winter. I would have tried to fix it more if I could, but circumstances being what they are I didn't feel like I really could.
But it's warming up now, and Tim has been going back to the RV, staying there some and working on repairs with the generator, as well as other little things. I'm thinking that if things keep going well we can move back into the RV here soon! At least we ought to be able to bring our babies home there, soon... and that would be great, as I am a sort who likes my privacy.
Hopefully these babies give us some more time to get prepared, and they're all healthy and ready for this great big world when they come! :)
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