PROJECT SWEET PEAS

sunshine through benefit that is coming up on november 12th : i wanted to tell you my story and about an amazing organization that i am part of called project sweet peas. after experiencing a miscarriage, then dealing with infertility for close to 5 years my husband and i were ecstatic to find out i was pregnant after our first round of ivf. we went to our first ultrasound hoping that we would see a heart beat and be reassured that we had a viable pregnancy. that ultrasound brought us the greatest surprise of our lives, we didn’t see one heartbeat, we saw three. we found out we were expecting triplets! we were shocked and pretty scared at that point. soon that shock became joy as we prepared to welcome our trio. at 10 weeks the doctor saw extra fluid on our baby a’s neck. we went to a maternal fetal medicine doctor at week 13 and he didn’t see anything abnormal. he reassured us that the previous ultrasound tech had made a mistake. we had to see a doctor bi weekly because my pregnancy was considered high risk, but things were going fairly well.at 20 weeks we had the anatomy scan and they saw that baby a had a congenital heart disorder. we were referred to a pediatric cardiologist who confirmed, a few weeks later that savannah had tetrollogy of fallot and an av canal defect. the doctors seemed optimistic that they would be able to repair her heart. one week later, at 24 weeks 3 days i went into labor and was transferred, by helicopter, to a hospital with a level 4 nicu. they were able to get my contractions to stop and i spent the next 7 weeks 2 days on hospital bed rest. on the morning of january 8th, 2015 my water broke for baby a . i was 31 weeks 5 days. the doctors tried to stop my labor so they could give me more steroid shots, to help the girls develop, but this time they were unsuccessful. we were blessed with three girls savannah, paige, and emma at 12:35 pm, 12:36 pm, and 12:37 pm, on my mom’s birthday. our girls were rushed away to the nicu immediately. paige had to be intubated, savannah had a c-pap, and emma was breathing room air. i was brought to the nicu in my bed to see the girls as soon as i was out of the recovery room. my three beautiful babies were hooked up to all kinds of machines. it was a really stressful time, but we were so in love with our three beauties. i that’s in your hollywood headlines – up next. you’re watching good morning delmarva go no where… 47