The Ostrand's

8/21/14

{meeting BIG brother, other family, & our GIRLS}

The first day I was admitted to the hospital, Brexton came down with a fever and eventually a runny nose and cough! :( Which meant his time at the hospital was very limited! He spent most of his time with daddy unless daddy was in the hospital then he was stayed with Nana and Papa or spent the day with Grammie, Grandpa, or Aunt B! I missed this little guy like crazy tho so we made the most of the little time we could have together! Since the girls were born in the later afternoon, Nana and Papa waited until the next day to bring Brexton down! I enjoyed getting my snuggles in with him! We took in back to the NICU for a quick look at his new baby sisters!! It was love at first sight!!!! :)

meeting Avery Grace...

so in love with his sister already!!

Olivia

meeting Olivia Ann

We had many family members come on Friday to meet the girls!!

Olivia

who missed who more?!?! ;)

The CPAP machine was removed after 24 hours!! So precious to see their faces now! :) The girls were already getting milk through their feeding tubes!

Olivia Ann (without CPAP machine!)

Avery Grace (without CPAP machine!)

catching up on our naptime snuggles with my boy!

Avery Grace

Olivia Ann

Welcome to the world...

5/.22.14

Happy BIRTHday to our beautiful girls!

Our plan of waking up the next morning to head home was changed in a hurry! Dr. Philpot's part, Dr. Jorgensen, was going to watch me for the day. She came in for a visit that morning. I had progressed to 5 cm dilated over night. She informed I was not going anywhere until these girls where born. They stopped all medicine that was supposed to be stopping my contractions and after 5 weeks of bedrest and 4 days confined to the hospital bed I was able to walk around to see if labor really was going to happen. So off Kory and went walking! We spent some time in the NICU visiting and they told us our room was already! :) She teased us that we only had until 4 to deliver if she was going to be apart of it! By then it was almost 2 so we didn't think that was possible at all! (Little did we know it would happen!) We headed back to our room to see if the doctor was back up to check to see if I have progressed at all. We walked some more and the doctor was ready to see us. To our surprise, I was 6 cm with baby ready to come out! She didn't know how baby a hasn't fallen out! After a quick ultrasound to see the position of the girls, she was prepping me for a c-section due to baby b being breech! Kory made some quick phone calls and before I knew it we were back in the OR ready to have the girls!

Introducing....

Olivia

Olivia Ann

5/22/14 3:46 pm

4 lbs 2 oz 18 in

Avery Grace

5/22/14 3:45 pm

4 lbs 4 oz 18 in

Olivia Ann

Avery Grace

Olivia

Avery

The girls were doing amazing considering they were only 32 weeks gestation! Everyone was surprised how big they were too!

Avery & daddy's hand

Avery

Avery, Daddy, and Aunt Kara

Olivia

8/20/14

hospital happenings....

At 31.5 weeks, I was hopitalized a second time to try and stop labor. I was admitted for at least 48 hours to get a dose of magnesium sulfate to slow down contraction and prevent further labor progression....

doing a little farming while visiting mommy the first day!

daddy sent mommy silly pictures!

After a quick check from my doctor the second morning, she gave me permission to be released later that afternoon if felt up to it! I had had the same day nurse all three days. She encouraged me to stay one more night for monitoring as my contractions seemed to have picked back up. I told her I would if I could be moved to a bigger room! Shortly she had come back in to say the biggest room of all right by the nicu was going to be available and she would save it for me a long with a cot for Kory. Kory met up with his parents to drop off Brexton and we decided to stay! (It was his first night staying at the hospital) Little did I know the girls would be born the next day....and I'm very glad we decided to stay!!