I have to say thank you to everyone for all of your support.  I have been having a really rough couple of past weeks.  Everything has been going wrong.  I have been so sick for the past few months, but haven’t been in to a Dr, now the girls are sick.  I did take them in though.  They all have viral infections and Alyssa and Katie have that plus ear infections.  The Dr said it came from Lilly, when she was sick, probably catching it from school.  So we are all sick now, luckily Kerry isn’t sick yet, lets keep our fingers crossed.

OK, i have to tell this sad story.  Monday I put the girls down for their morning nap, i always change them before putting them down.  Well I was so busy with things, i forgot Alyssa likes to take her diaper off.  Well a big mistake.  They didn’t want to take a nap, but i had things to do, so i let them talk to each other up stairs, that was a big mistake too!  So after a about 10 min i went up there and was smelling the most awful thing ever, to my surprise Alyssa took her poop filled diaper off and threw it everywhere, I mean everywhere!  I had so much fun cleaning that up, while they were all looking at me, laughing in their own ways!  I never thought that could happen to me!  But it did!  Then everything from that point on was just getting worse.  I got them dressed and brought them downstairs, i had to go pick up Lilly early from school to take them to the Dr.  I was trying to pick up a little and i kicked a ball, trying to kick it into the playroom, boy that didn’t work, it ended up hitting my curtain rod just in the right place in the living room and hit it precisely in the right spot and took down the rod and somehow broke and snapped.  Needless to say so did I…things just got worse from there!  I was crying so hard I was laughing at all the things that were going wrong.  I had to stop and take a min out.

While my time out I called aunt elayne.  She is always there for me!  She had some great words of wisdome!  She always seems to calm me down and help me.  She is also coming to my rescue!  She is helping me this weekend.  THANK YOU!  I cant wait.

Then I also have my cousin Lea!  What can I say about her, well what cant i say!  She also is always here for me.  She is my best friend.  She goes to school full time and works part time, but some how she found a way to come over yesterday to help me clean up and take care of the girls.  It happen to be the right day because I cant believe i actually forgot my anniversary with Kerry!  Yes i have been so wound up with things, I forgot.  Its been 5 years that we have been married, but can u believe its going to be 14 years that we are together.  Dec. 27th this year!  Kerry is the best father and husband anyone can ask for!  We are so blessed to have each other and our 4 beautiful baby girls.  So back to my story.  Lea came to our rescue and helped with everything.  After we got them to sleep she stayed here so Kerry and I could go out.  We had a lovely dinner.  And Kerry surprised me with a dozen beautiful roses.  Thanks Kerry!  Thanks Lea.

Also to my rescue are some great women i never even met.  I belong to a wonderful moms of multiples group.  I had posted some of my problems and stated I dont know what to do anymore, so these women wrote the best advice and help anyone could offer.  They are all parents of multiples so they understand where I am coming from.  Most of them offered to come and help me out and stay with me for a few days!  What some wonderful women!  If I lived close i would take them up on their offer!  So thank you to all of you!  We have to meet some day!  Thanks, im doing better with all the support and help!

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Hi everyone- I am finally released from the hospital, but I’m put on permanent bed-rest. It was a long 3 days and I’m so happy to be out. Lilly, Kerry and I are staying at my aunts house because it’s close to the hospital if we need to go back. She is a life saver, Kerry and Lilly have been here while I was in the hospital, she loves her aunt and cousin Jason…I am scared of what is to come next.

Like Kerry said in the last post, I have mild preclamsea which could lead to me delivering any time now. My blood pressure has been high and I had high protein in my urine.  I also had two horrible, horrible steroid shots for the babies to speed up the development of there lungs in case we have to deliver early. Today I’m at 32 weeks and 1 day, we are hoping to go to 36 weeks. I’m not sure how much longer my body is going to let me go. I am pushing myself to the limit with everything, meaning this is a hard pregnancy.

I’m taking it easy though, Kerry and Lilly are so good to me and now my aunt is taking great care of all of us! I don’t know where I would be without them. Hopefully everything will go well with the rest of the pregnancy.  I’m holding in as long as I can, but each day is getting harder.

Thank you everyone for supporting me, especially the girls on my yahoo groups! Some of them had called me at the hospital to reassure me that everything will be OK. I’ll write again when I can, our next apt is on Monday and hopefully they will tell me some good news! So good bye for now! Continue to pray for us! Thanks

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I’ve mentioned before some triplets groups and websites that I visit often. One of them is TripletConnection.org. It’s a forum where we can post questions. I recently posted the following paragraph below-

How did you feel when you found out “It’s Triplets” ??

We have 14 days left until our predicted delivery date. All girls !

I was just thinking about that life changing moment when I was told “wait a minute………………there is more than 1 baby…..ohh wow…. there are 3 babies ! ”

I was overwhelmed, overjoyed and scared for my babies. Shocked…
My husband said he felt blessed (triple blessed), unworthy, proud, he said he felt better than he imagined he would feel if he won the lottery.

1. How were you told you were having triplets ?
2. How did you feel ?

Jenell Mann

http://www.manntriplets.com

See the responses my question recieved – here

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Prior to our latest checkup, we met with a family who has triplets. The mom, Holly learned of our website from her mom. They gave us 14 containers of formula ! Holly said she wanted to help out another triplets mommy. Thank you so much to Holly and her family- this formula will be put to good use. Along with the formula Holly and her mom had some great triplets advice. Holly had her triplets at the same hospital we are having ours at.

I plan on staying in touch with Holly- and I hope to pass on some triplets goodness to another triplet mom some day like Holly did for us.

It was so nice meeting her and her family. Her triplets are just beautiful. She has boy,boy, girl.  Lilly had fun playing with the little ones in the sand box. It gave us an idea of what to expect. Thanks again Holly !

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There are a lot of multiples and triplets parents reading our blog- Thanks for the support. I’m into so many groups on yahoo and now just found one called the Triplet Connection. You can post messages and read other peoples questions and comment on them. I have received lots of great comments and suggestions from parents of multiples. Thank you to all of you!

Here is my question for today:

How have other triplets’ moms out there handled bottle feeding ?

I have heard some people say they prop their babies up and feed them– this sounds scary ! Whats the best way to feed them and how did you do it?

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We received a beautiful crib today!

My friend Kim, who I met through a local on-line group, gave us her daughters old crib. Its a very nice crib. She’s also given me a lot of clothes for Lilly through out the past year! Thank you so much Kim and Kevin.

Now I just need to have Kerry set it up.

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