sunday was brenner's birthday. it was a busy day and we had to go to houston for a doctor's appointment for the twins that was scheduled the next morning.
brenner loves seafood so we went to a great restaurant in houston that night for his birthday and one of his good friends from college was able to meet us which was a lot of fun.
the specialist's office was .2 miles from the houston zoo so after the appointment we took cole to the zoo for a couple of hours.
we had fun, can you tell?
the best part of the zoo was the two baby elephants. so cute!!!!!
we had fun, can you tell?
when we got home that night, i wanted to make brenner something different and special for his birthday and i found just the recipe. i had seen it on a blog a follow months ago and then rediscovered it on pinterest.
cookies n' cream oreo fudge browines. oh yeah, you read that correctly.
here is the link.
they will probably change your life like they did mine. it is a good thing i am pregnant and supposed to consume an extra 800 calories a day is all i have to say.
anyways, on to the doctors appointment.
things went great. the girls are continuing to fabulous. they are growing steadily and are within 11% of each other (which is totally normal). they are maintaining good blood flow in the heart, brain, and umbilical cords. they have strong heartbeats. and they never stop moving! there continues to be a discrepancy between their fluid levels, it has not worsened and the fluid for twin b (the smaller twin) has even increased slightly. the doctor feels that things are going to stay where they are since we have been stable now for a month and that we are not going to need surgery and probably won't need any sort of intervention for the rest of the pregnancy. when we asked him what he thought our chances were of making it closer to full term now that we have been stable for several weeks, he says in his experience, 92% of patients like us will make it all the way to full term for twins (35-36 weeks)!!! we are thrilled to receive such great news!
while we know that there is still a chance for them to come early, and for more complications, as there will always be for twins, we are praising God for this blessing.
the power of prayer has been incredible and cannot be denied. we know that God works in different ways in each situation and that healing does not happen for everyone. but we also know that God does answer every prayer perfectly and he is choosing to intervene for our girls. we are giving Him ALL the credit for this!
please continue to pray for them, as we hope to have a minimum of 10 more weeks of 'baking' time!
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