WOW WOW WOW!! What seems like yesterday has been a year already.
Sorry for the lack of updating the last months but we have been SO busy and the last thing I want to do when i get home is get on the computer. They boys are doing great and growing so fast!
The boys got tubes in their ears and everything went great. Poor Jaxson got double ear infections and his left ear drum burst the day before ( of course his luck seeing how he never got ONE ear infection before). However getting the tubes was an instant relief for the infection. We had a follow up and both boys FINALLY passed their hearing test and they have concerns with their hearing. Thank goodness because it is nearly impossible to keep them still during the test. Jaxson scored slightly lower than Jaden but they think it is due to his little ear drums and his hearing will improve as his ear drum grows.
Well now that the boys have mastered rolling, crawling, and climbing it's now on to walking!!! They are getting so strong and so close to walking. They have a push toy and will grab on and take off cruising around the house. It's so funny because they look so small to be walking. Jaden has also took some steps all by himself!! : ] He can stand all by himself but isn't sure about moving his feet. If you put something out in front of him he really likes he will take some steps forward, realize what he is doing, then fall to the grown like he's embarrassed... silly boy! Jaxson can stand by himself for s few seconds but his legs are still a little weak and can't stay up long.
So the boys eat 4 main meals a day with snacks in between and only a few bottles. It still changes from day to day but they are consuming a lot more solids! It's so nice because they are starting to eat what we do which makes it much easier on us and lighter on the check book : ] And they love to eat with us... If we eat a meal without them they crawl over out chairs and stand up and beg like puppy dogs. They even get to drooling and smacking their lips. : ] They are too cute!!!
Well that was a short update on what the boys have been up to. Growing big and strong and becoming their amazing selves!!!!
JUST A LITTLE BACKGROUND!!!!....
A year ago today I had been in Antepartum at ST.Lukes Boise, ID for two weeks not knowing that the next day would bring our miracle boys!! After finding out we were having twins many complications occurred and our pregnancy took a totally different turn! We were referred to St Lukes Maternal Fetal Medicine where they discovered the boys suffered from and extreme case of Twin to Twin Transfusion Syndrome and Jaxson suffered Selective Intrauterine Growth Restriction. Assuming they wouldn't have the best outcome they suggested to terminate the pregnancy but that was not an option to us, we were going to give our boys every chance they deserved!! So at 19 weeks I went to Seattle for Laser Surgery in hopes to correct some of the TTTS. While being there they had found out Jaxson had only 20% of the placenta and gave him basically no chance of surviving. Jaden had the other 80% of the placenta and after surgery had a 60% of survival. The surgery went wonderful and after some of the longest hours of my life we had an ultrasound and there was 2 hearbeats!! I knew right then the boys were fighters! Even after seeing both heartbeats the doctor warned us there was still a very high chance that Jaxson wouldn't make it threw the next couple weeks... but he did right along with his big brother Jaden. : ] I was on strict bed rest and a very high protein diet. With doctors appointments every week and sometimes multiple times a week. Things were up and down but all along I knew my boys wouldn't give up and I wouldn't give up on them. After a doctors appointment on March 25, 2009 I was put in Antepartum due to my cervix thinning out and being in and out of Labor and Delivery the last couple weeks with premature labor. The boys were able to "cook" a little bit longer until Jaxson decided he couldn't wait to meet mom and dad. On April 08, 2009 I had an ultrasound and Jaxson had no fluid around him (he had always had very little during the pregnancy due to TTTS). I was also having more contractions and every time I had one his heart rate would drop. It was a horrible feeling to watch his heart rate drop down to almost nothing. The doctor finally decided we couldn't leave him like that because of the chance of his heart rate dropping and not coming back up. Since they needed to get Jaxson that meant Jaden was coming too!! Our beautiful boys were born at 10:53pm and 10:54pm Jaden weighing 3lbs 7oz and Jaxson 2lbs 2oz. After a long stay in the NICU we got to bring both boys home and are enjoying our family more than ever!! We were once told to terminate these boys and how if we didn't their chances of a normal life would be slim. And trust me our boys have anything but a normal life ... THEY ARE FIGHTERS AND OUR MIRACLE BOYS!!!
Happy 1st Birthday Jaden & Jaxson!
pictures and an update from their birthday will be up soon!!!
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