Amelia, Elijah and Addison

Mommy and Daddy can not thank you enough for making us your parents...we are forever blessed because of you.

P.S. Daddy has promised Mommy that he will upload the beautiful slide show we put together so we can share it with all of our friends and family. Although it is very hard not to keep everything to ourselves, Mommy (and Daddy) wants to share you with the world.

Our Precious Babies

To our Friends and Family:

Amelia Dolores, Elijah Gregory, and Addison Marie Hagley were called home to Heaven. Their time on earth was brief, but memorable and we cherished every single second we got to spend with them.

Our babies were beautiful and perfect in every way. Amelia was 10.0 inches and weighed 1 lb .5 ounces. Eli was 10.5 inches and 1 lb 2 ounces and Addy was 9 inches and .8 lbs.

We don't understand how. We don't understand why. And we don't understand where we go from here. All that we know is that we loved our babies very much.

We want to thank everyone for their kind words, prayers and well wishes. Your support helped us get through our daily struggles and it means the world to us.

One day at time, one foot in front of the other we will get through this.

Love Scott and Michelle

The Pups first visit to the hospital!!!

Sunday the pups had their first (of many) visits to the hospital to visit their Mom!! It was more than great to see them!! I miss them soo much. It was great to have them snuggle up to me for a few hours. Since Sunday's mark a new week for us we will continue to celebrate those days with a visit from our pups!

Unfortunately, I don't have much new news to report, which in a good way is good news! I was started on Magnesium Sulfate on Friday afternoon, this is given by IV which sucks but ah well..the first 2 days were a little rough, the magnesium comes with some fun side effects, luckily, the side effects I was experiencing have subsided!

We are getting more sleep now that I am on the Magnesium. The nurse comes in only once a night to change the IV bag instead of a few times like they used to when I was on the oral meds. With the Mag my blood is drawn daily to check levels and they do that between 5-7 in the morning, the resident doctor stops in around 6. So from 5-7, I don't sleep much!!

Not sure when our next u/s is but we will send an update when we have one!

Love you all!

A good friend of our sent me this picture and it definitely cheered me up!!! Thanks Darrin for always making us laugh!!!

We're Back

Hi Everyone-

This is Scott posting on our blog for the first time. I'm sorry that we haven't returned many emails, phone calls or texts over the past several days. Things have been very stressful and probably not in the best frame of mind to discuss the details.

On Friday we went in for a schedule cervical length test and unfortunately it shrank again. We were taken back to the hospital. We will be calling room 4423 'home' for a very long time.

The goal remains the same. We need to keep our babies safely inside of Michelle for as long as possible. Today marks week 20 which is a great milestone.

If you could see Michelle right now you would all be as proud of her as I am. She's being very brave and very strong - despite suffering from a double ear infection and head cold on top of everything.

We will try and post more frequently as our tests will be often. Tomorrow we're looking forward to detailed U/S of all the babies.

Again, we're very sorry for our lack of communication at times, but please know that your support means everything to us.

Here are a few pics from the hospital.

Hospital free ... for now

After a grueling week in the hospital we were discharged today. I have been contraction free for 24 hours and my cervix is stable. I'm so excited to be back home.

On Friday we had an ultra sound to check out the beans and my cervix. The beans all looked great and my cervix actually grew to 17 mm, which is what the doctors hoped for.

I'm on strict bed rest with bathroom use as the only excuse to get out of bed. It is going to be challenging for us, but I'm confident we will make it work.

We are so grateful for all of the prayers and support. Please keep them coming. The weeks ahead are going be difficult.

Love Michelle and Scott

Hospital

Well..against my best efforts to avoid getting here, I am here, in the hospital on bed rest at 18 weeks. I wish I was a stronger person but I cant seem to stop crying.

Yesterday, we went in for a routine 2 week cervical length check and my cervix had shortened significantly from 43 mm to 16 mm. They like it to be above 25 mm. After meeting with the doctor we were sent over to OB Triage. We we in triage from 9:00 a.m -4:30 p.m. It was determined that I was in deed having contractions about every 3 minutes, I had no idea. I couldn't feel them really. They started me on some oral meds and that stopped the contractions completely. I was admitted to the hospital around 5:00 p.m. last night so that I can be monitored on the meds for the next 48 hours and then they will determine where we go from here.

All 3 babies are doing great, there is no stress on any of them. At the u/s they were all moving with very healthy heart beats.

Our biggest concern from here on out is keeping our babies safe and warm for at least another 11-12 weeks.

I am going to have a tough time with this for a lot of reason but will do my best to not cry all the time.

Love
Michelle