Jackson arrived first weighing in at 5 lbs. 15 oz., Maxwell second at 6 lbs. 1 oz. and Harrison third at 5 lbs. 10 oz. They were fat and healthy.
All initially went to the NICU, but they only stayed for two days prior to moving to the special care nursery. Jack and Max required some minimal oxygen help for the first two days, but both are completely off of it now. Harrison (the runt) has out performed his brothers so far and he was moved to our room Sunday night. Harrison will go home with us tomorrow. Max may also come home with us depending on how the next 24 hours go. However, Jack will stay at the hospital until Friday or Saturday (his heart rate dropped last night for less than 20 seconds earning him five additional days).
Oh, and the boys look to be identical!! While we are still waiting for some test results, they share exactly the same amount of cuteness and they have the same blood type. We are relying on hospital bracelets for now, but we will need a good identification plan once we get home
We cannot explain how incredibly blessed we are. The odds of having spontanous identical triplets born healthy at 34 weeks is beyond comprehension. Mikki and the boys are the talk of the hospital and no one can recall seeing anything like this before. The only explanation is that we were chosen for these wonderful gifts and we plan to enjoy the ride.
We will provide a detailed birth story later, but, in the meantime, we have included a slideshow on the right side of this page (for those reading on email you will have to go to the actual web page to view the pics). Enjoy!!
Love,
Hunter, Mikki, Coby, Claire, Caroline, Jackson, Maxwell and Harrison - Party of Eight
Wow, congrats! And holy cow, those are some HUGE babies! Only born 5 days after mine, and your smallest was a pound bigger than my biggest! I can't imagine how monstrous they'd have been if they'd delivered at 36 weeks. :)
ReplyDeleteAnd yay for another set of identical boys! When they're older, we're going to have to get a photo with my boys. That'd be neat. :)