Some pictures...

I haven't had a chance to write out my birthstory yet. My mom is here visting this week, so I haven't taken the time to sit and write it all down yet. But I will sometime next week. But i wanted to hop on here real quick and post a link to some pictures of the boys at home. Big Pierres dad Poppo is there with his girlfriend meeting the boys for the first time so there are some of him in the bunch as well. He is just the sweetest man you ever want to meet! Always made me feel like part of the family just as they all did!! I know he is so exicted to see those boys one of which is carrying on his name first name! You can tell he is a proud Poppo!!!

It did my heart so good to see Kristina with the boys in her arms!! I've waited 8 days to see that and it was well worth the wait!! Of course my over emotional hormonal self teared up!! :-) I'm so proud of what we all did together and too see the completion of their family all together made my heart beam!!

Here are the pics! Enjoy! :-) http://picasaweb.google.com/bossaert/BabyPictures222

The twins are here!!!

I can't sit here very long but I wanted to let everyone know who doesn't already that we had the twins on Valentines day at 11:19 and 11:31 pm. I will give all the details in a different post tomorrow or early next week. But I wanted to post a few pictures for everyone far away that wasn't able to come and see them. They are beautiful and just perfect in everyway!! A-who is now Maslin because he ended up being the smaller of the two was 5.9 18 1/2 inches B- who is now Pierre was 5.15 and 19 inches.

Thank you so much to all of you who sent such beautiful flowers. I will include a picture of all the flowers I got below as well. My room and now my house smells WONDERFUL!!! Thank you all so much, it means so much to know you are all sending your love and support!!!

Thank you to all of you for all your love and wonderful support, its meant so much to me and my family and Kristina and Pierre as well to know that so many of you have been so interested in our journey and all the love you have shown.

Update

Hello to all of you following Misty’s Journey! This is Kari writing. Misty went into the hospital this morning and I thought I would try and keep you all updated. I talked to her around 8 and she was feeling really nauseous, and felt that she was losing her mucus plug. She was also contracting. Somewhere around 9 she went to the hospital. I don’t have all of the details. I just got a text from her around 10:30. She is dilated to a 4 with a bulging water bag. Pierre is about 2.5 hours away. They were calling the doctor to see what he wanted to do. I will update again if I hear any further news. Please keep them all in your prayers.

35 week update

My Dr got called out right before seeing me OF COURSE!! So saw his partner, he agreed with everything from yesterday but I am a 3 now. I'm very swollen today for some reason, he said I could wear support hose to see if that helps, but I won't be doing that I sweat to death in pants don't think i will be putting hose on!!

I have had several contractions since the appt, with him checking me I think that just disturbed things in there!!

I just talked to Kristina, Pierre will be leaving Boston on a flight tonight into Chicago and then will either drive down tonight or in the morning depending on how I am doing once he lands in Chicago. Kristina is still deciding for sure on how to get here. They are looking at flights for her from OR. I want them to be here and don't want them to miss this special day, but also hate for them to spend all the extra money on getting here early and then nothing happen. I just feel so bad and am so over emotional about everything!! I just keep crying. So anyway I am on the couch and not moving until they are here safe and sound.

I will let you know when anything more happens.

NST Update

Well I am home from the NST!, I have been having a "leaky" feeling (sorry way TMI for Tom and Cecil :-) the leaky feeling came from effacing the nurse said, I am 70% effaced, -2 station, 2 cm dialated. BP was elevated a little, 136/96 and I'm pretty swollen today. But she said the dr said the babies look good on the monitor so unless I am in GOOD labor of course they won't keep me.

I called Kristina to let her know and of course she is panicking. Pierre is on his way (in the air) to boston. She hasn't talked to him yet. She wants me to see the dr to verify everything the nurse told me today and she said they will change their travel plans. I don't know if that means they will come here right away or what her plans will be exactly, I don't think she knows LOL. She doesn't fly, so I'm not sure what she will do, especially with Pierre across the country form her. The nurse said if I want to get things moving that I should walk and walk and walk, once the contrx start don't stop walking because then the contrx will stop. So once everyone is in place, and I get the ok from everyone that needs to be present at the delivery thats what we will do. LOL If I don't go in before that.

I have a 9:45 appt with my Dr in the morning to see what he thinks!! So I will let you know once I know more!!

***UPDATE SINCE I POSTED******

Just talked to Kristina, she changed her train reservations, the earliest she could get out of town is Saturday on the train, that puts them here on Monday night. We will be going to the mall to walk around all day on Tuesday ROFL!! Unless something happens before Saturday thats the plan for now. Pierres meeting ends Thursday but he can cut out whenever if I need him and be on the next flight out. Otherwise he will fly home and take the train with Kristina and Gabrielle on Saturday. So please pray they make it here in time safe and sound!!! And that these boys stay put until Monday night/ Tuesday morning!!!

35 week update and pictures

Well there really isn't much to update right now. My next appt is Friday. We will get to see if any of these contractions are progressing my cervix at all or if they boys have dropped down any at all.

All my NSTs have been going well. Nothing exciting there. The boys have been doing great on the monitor.

I will update again once I have my appt on Friday. I have two more NSTs this week as well so if anything exciting happens I will be sure to let ya know!!

Here are a few pictures of me today I will be 35 weeks tomorrow.

Another beautiful gift..

My wonderful friends sent me another thoughtful present today. I received a BEAUTIFUL pajama gram!! Included in the gift set was a soft comfy robe with my name stiched on the upper left corner, as well as pajamas with my name stiched on them as well and slippers to match. How sweet is that!! I can't wait to fit in them!! :-) They are super soft!! I have included some pictures below!! There is also a picture of the cute adorable packaging that they came in. The robe was in one and the slippers and jammies were in another!! I highly recommend this company as a gift for a loved one. The jammies are so soft and so is the robe!! http://www.pajamagram.com/

Thank you again for such thoughtfulness Kristina and Pierre!! I know you think what I am doing is a huge deal, but to me and I would think most other Surrogates, its something that we are PASSIONATE about and something we couldn't imagine not being apart of. We are HAPPY and DELIGHTED to do this for you and all the other parents out there that have received the joy of a child this way. We don't expect anything in return. The ONLY thing we want in these journeys is to see you with your child/children and the love and joy on your faces. Thats truly the reason we do what we do!! But I do appreciate EVERYTHING you have done for me during this time!!

Belly comparison

This is a picture of me now with these twins and from the first set of twins I had. For those of you that didn't know me back then and think I am HUGE now (TOM!!!!) you can see how much bigger I was before. :-) (blue shirt now, stripped shirt then)

Why I don't do to much these days....

I just thought you might like to see what happens when I am out and about for to long. Today was a LONG day for me, considering I have been on the couch the last few weeks and not moved to much. Today we left for the Drs appt/u/s/ and NST at 10:00 didn't get home from that until after 3. I was home for a little bit then we left to go to Walmart to get stuff for our Superbowl party and some groceries. Kristopher took some of the list and so did Cotton so it wasn't all that long we were in there maybe half an hour to 45 min. Then went to Kristophers basketball game again not really walking a whole lot but not sitting with my feet propped up. The pictures don't do them justice but here are my legs and feet. As I as sitting at the game I could just feel them swelling in my shoes and my shoes getting tighter. My hands are really swollen too, I haven't worn my rings in a couple of weeks now!! :-( I can't wait to put those back on. I hate being pregnant and not having a ring on my finger!!

My ankles aren't near as bad as they were when I was pregnant with the other twins, but today was the worse they have been this pregnancy. My calfs and feet I think are the worst!! Just so you know I was 115-118 before this pregnancy, so my legs are not normally big. So this is HUGE for me!! LOL (you can see my belly in the way in the first one) :-)

33/34 week check up!

I will be 34 weeks on Monday and today we had a great appt. Everything looks wonderful with the boys!! MASLIN is HEAD DOWN!!! YEAH!!!!! He was breach last time!!! They are head to head down low!! They both look great and are growing just like they should be. Pierre (baby A) is 4.14 and Maslin is 4.11. Right on target Dr. C said!!

He checked me and I was not dialated anymore from last week and I was still high. So thats good. That meant no medicine for contractions which is good!!! My b/p was great 123/71. Nothing more exciting to write about!! We didn't get any really good pictures. And since there was a snow storm my hubby took me and so the disk that I take and all the pics get put on was left in my car. So Julie my oh so wonderful u/s tech said just to bring it nxt time and she will put all of them on the disk from this week. So sorry no pics, but there weren't any good ones anyway. Their faces are towards my back and Pierre is squishing Maslin so the only good one we got was of Pierres but cheeks and his little dinky doo!! :-) He likes showing that off for all to see!! One of them even had their hand "down there" :-) .

I am now having NSTs 2x a week. Those really stink!! I was hooked up today from 12:40-2:20 or so. I was so uncomfortable. So now I go for those every Tuesday and Friday!! Fun Fun!! :-)

Thats it for now, will update more when anything happens!!