Happy Birthday - One Week Old Today!

Welcome to our new page. We started this a long time ago when bed rest started, but in the hospital we were restricted access to all blogspot pages, so thebabystatus.com was our best option. Now that I'm on the outside, we can continue where we left off and have a place to send all those following the progress of Julia, Braddock, and Griffin. Yesterday at 2:23 (Julia), 2:23 (Braddock) and 2:24 pm (Griffin), we celebrated their first week of life. It's been quite a week!! Bill and I are just in awe of our babies and how they are progressing.



I'll introduce them first so that we have a starting point on our new page.



Julia: She was the first of the three to arrive, the loudest (not that her cry is more than a peep - but still louder than the boys). She has the most hair and the longest eyelashes I've ever seen on a baby. Her name is French or Latin meaning, "youthful, soft haired." Her features are so petite and precious. She was in a rush to get into this world - head down and ready to come out at 24 weeks. Watching her Dad hold her yesterday was one of the greatest pleasures I've ever had in life. She has his coloring and they seem to look very much alike.

Braddock: He was born just after Julia (in the same minute). He is our biggest baby, entering the world at a whopping 2 lbs 11 oz. Braddock is an English name meaning "Broad-spreading oak," or "of the mighty oak." We waited to name the boys until we saw them and he appeared to fit his name with one look! He is the calmest baby so far. He looks like a wise old man to me. His eyelashes are blond and his hair lighter than Julia's. He seems to always be smiling.

Griffin: He was born one minute after Julia and Braddock, and he was the smallest. He is also the feistiest of the three and the first to hold his pacifier. He pulls at his tubes -- not that I blame him! His name is Welsh meaning "Fighting chief, fierce," and he is certainly that. He was a little behind the other two but is catching up very quickly and almost back to his birth weight. He and Braddock are identical so they look just the same.

All three are just incredible to see. They are unimaginably tiny but perfect in every way. I look at them and wonder why we have been triply blessed. (Of course, they'll be in the NICU until October and then all bets are off as to what I'm wondering when I'm trying to feed three at 2 a.m. on zero sleep!) For now, we're just proud parents of three little miracles all lined up in a row.

So we'll start here and use this page as our way of sharing our journey -- however fast, slow, good, bad or chaotic -- with our trio. We are taking each day as it comes and hoping for a quick and uneventful NICU stay. On that front, so far so good....