Angels on Earth

On my heart:

Today, we went to go visit Minnesota Perinatal Clinic. Just driving into the parking lot, I felt all of the tension and stress of my pregnancy creep back into my body. Anxiety, nervousness, uncertainty...
As we walked though the doors, and rode up the elevator, my memory was flooded by all of the times I rode that very same elevator, wondering what the appointment would bring.
During my pregnancy there were so many uncertainties:
-High risk triplet pregnancy
-High risk identicals
-A 2 vessel cord and marginal insertion
-Pre-term labor
-Incompetent Cervix and cerclage which funneled down to the stitch (quite literally meaning there was only a small stitch holding all 3 of my babies in)
-15 weeks of the strictest bedrest (meaning few showers, and using a commode next to my bed so that I didn't have to walk "all the way" to the bathroom)
-Home contraction monitors, more medicines and hospital trips than we could ever count
(not to mention the risk of twin-to-twin transfusion, preeclampsia, and brain bleeds, NEC, CP, heart defects, etc. after they were born!)
For those of you who don't know our story, I was admitted to the hospital at 21 weeks with constant contractions. Within the span of 10 minutes, I had a nurse practitioner come in to tell me they had never seen a pregnancy like mine have a good outcome, AND a hospital chaplain come to ask if we'd picked out names for our girls, cause you "can't baptize babies who have died, but you can do a naming ceremony if you choose."
Well, let me tell you, for anyone who needs a good story, this it IT!
God preforms miracles!
I've got 3 of them living under my very own roof.
It is all by the grace of God, and because of the knowledge and love of the amazing and wonderful staff and Minnesota Perinatal Clinic that my little ones are here to bless the world.

Lots of people wonder if I am bothered by all of the stares and smiles we get at the mall, church, playgrounds, restaurants, really anywhere we go.
The answer is emphatically NO!
I SEE the look that total strangers get in their eyes when they see my little girls.
It is like they have just seen a real life miracle.
Guess what...They have!