Harvest Day

The harvest season has passed. The leaves and gords on our mantle are slowly becoming outnumbered by pine boughs and cranberries. The Christmas tree is up if not decorated and our Sons are on their way, ready or not. The on-going decision making process of where they will thrive most and strive least has finally yielded a day. A Birthday. Or perhaps in the case of a scheduled c-section: a Harvest Day. At 33 weeks the risks associated with prematurity are very minimal while the unknown, and normal risks of leaving them in persist as time goes by; so the decision to take them out next week was made. December 10th will be their birthday and for once in their lives we are more excited for it than they are. We do not know what to expect except that they will be very small, and that they will both likely go to NICU right away. Will they be rushed away? Will I get to go with them? Will they need help to breath? Be hooked up to tubes? We do not know, except that we have exceptional trust that the NICU here is as good of a place as there can be for them.

It turns out that the highly optimistic numbers from the last post were too optimistic! They appear to be a misread, within the margin of error of the equipment used to measure them. This doesn't mean they have stopped growing, but it unfortunately means that our little guy did not close the gap like we had thought. At this point, if the measurements are close we expect that they will be born approaching 3 and 4 pounds respectively. Unfortunately the retraction of the previous great news along with their eminent and premature birth has resurfaced some of our worries for them. The Roller coaster of TTTS presses on, whether it is fun or not.

It appears the dormant season for MCCARTERTWINS.BLOGSPOT.COM is coming to an end. Frequent news ensues. Stay tuned.