We still can't get over the fact we have TRIPLETS! Amazing how we have an "instant" family that was just the two of us and immediately became the five of us! Incredible, isn't it!?! We are indeed truly blessed and grateful to have Sydney, Sebastian, and Maximillian as they all are healthy babies and making good progress. Max continues to be making the most progress with his feeding as he has been able to finish his entire feedings. Sebastian and Sydney continues to make some progress. It is strongly believed that Max more likely will be the first one released. "When?" continues to be the big questions and that we do not know the answer to yet. :-)
Yesterday (Monday), our surrogate M came by to see us and spent some time with us. It was her birthday recently and we got her a nice frame with a picture of us with the triplets, which was taken the first few days. The frame had sentimental words that expressed sentiments about babies and how they are special and how we are blessed to have them. This was one of our ways of expressing our gratitude for all she has done. We couldn't have asked for a better surrogate! :-)
Bev, JD, April, and Veronica all arrived into San Diego yesterday afternoon. It's great seeing them all again. All except JD, as he is under 12, were able to see and hold the babies. Their reactions to the trios are priceless as they all were in awe and instantly fell in love with the trios. We were able to show the trios to JD through a window. Each took turns holding the triplets. They all cannot get over how tiny they are and how adorable they all are. :-)
Earlier we had a slight occurrence with Mr. Maximillian Jonas Furman-Sanger. "Incoming!" shouted Sean as TJ nearly got hit by Max's unexpected poop spurts! What had happened was, TJ was changing Maximillian's diaper, which had a good amount of poop. As TJ was wiping Max's rear end with baby wipes, Max decided he was not finished and continued his "business" hence the "Incoming!" remark I made. Max was shooting poops like bullets. This happened NOT once but TWICE! TJ practically had to duck to avoid being "browned!" Fortunately, it didn't fly far nor did it hit us. We also had to rescue the blue horse doll that was in Max's crib as well. Fortunately, he managed to be saved without being splattered on. Luckily, it was not as dramatic or messy as the "Code Brown" incident. ;-)
We are truly amazed at the number of people that have been following our blog on daily basis and how they all can hardly wait for more updates. :-) We truly appreciate it! Please do keep reading our blog even though we may not update it everyday. Once the babies are home, the postings may be less. Again that remains to be seen.
Pictures of the babies smiling, laughing, crying, being mad, and most of all, being loved have be posted to satisfy your BPWS (Babies Photo Withdrawal Syndrome). :-) Enjoy! Hugs to you all.
Sean, TJ, Sebastian, Maximillian, & Sydney
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Sunday, March 8, 2009
2 weeks old today?!?!?
WOW - One blink, they are already two weeks old!! The past two weeks has flew by quickly since they were born. They have improved big time this past two weeks. WOW! *getting teary here* We are VERY VERY VERY blessed to have them as our children. I keep pinching myself to actually believe that we have three children now! WOW! Love them soo much - they are our whole lives.
Their IV lines have been taken out today and are doing very well. The only wires that are attached to them are the monitors for their heart rates and breathing. WOW! Less wires to worry about and it is much easier to hold them in our arms.
All of them still rely on feeding tubes with every feeding - they do drink some from bottles but not the whole thing. Max has been able to eat milk from the bottle only twice - last night and this morning. However, he is on and off with feeding tube today.
They are doing very well. Sean and I noticed that when Sydney and Sebastian are placed back in their crib after being fed, they get fussy and do not like it. They want to be held again and when they do, they immediately calm down and fall asleep in our arms. AWW! :-)
Thom, a friend of ours, came and visit us. He was in awe of our triplets when he met them. He enjoyed himself with us. :-) Thank you for coming by and treating us to lunch.
No other updates as of right now. :-)
Their IV lines have been taken out today and are doing very well. The only wires that are attached to them are the monitors for their heart rates and breathing. WOW! Less wires to worry about and it is much easier to hold them in our arms.
All of them still rely on feeding tubes with every feeding - they do drink some from bottles but not the whole thing. Max has been able to eat milk from the bottle only twice - last night and this morning. However, he is on and off with feeding tube today.
They are doing very well. Sean and I noticed that when Sydney and Sebastian are placed back in their crib after being fed, they get fussy and do not like it. They want to be held again and when they do, they immediately calm down and fall asleep in our arms. AWW! :-)
Thom, a friend of ours, came and visit us. He was in awe of our triplets when he met them. He enjoyed himself with us. :-) Thank you for coming by and treating us to lunch.
No other updates as of right now. :-)
Saturday, March 7, 2009
March 5 & 6 2009 Update
Not much update to share. The Furman-Sanger Triplets continue to make good progress. Their feeding progress is coming along. Max is making the most progress of the trios. Sydney is no longer on fluid IV (as of Friday) and Sebastian & Maximillian will have theirs taken off this evening. What that mean is their primary source of food will be the milk they receive either through bottle or tube.
We continue to LOVE holding and watch our babies. Sebastian continues to smile (a lot!) Max and Sydney have finally started to smile more. They are sooo cute :-) Pictures of the three smiling will be posted in a few days.
Yesterday - Sebastian was taught his first lesson as he pooped on the nurse. It was almost everywhere including the nurse's shoe. The nurse was a sweetheart and laughed at this. For the nurses - this is known as "Code Brown" ;-) Sebastian was immediately given a sponge bath which he really enjoyed! Anyhow to the lesson that Sebastian was taught. His first lesson (from us) is NOT to SH!T on people! He is only allowed to SH!T in the toilet or in his diaper. Sebastian even smiled at this (of course after his sponge bath). That was one of the few highlights of yesterday.
We continue to LOVE holding and watch our babies. Sebastian continues to smile (a lot!) Max and Sydney have finally started to smile more. They are sooo cute :-) Pictures of the three smiling will be posted in a few days.
Yesterday - Sebastian was taught his first lesson as he pooped on the nurse. It was almost everywhere including the nurse's shoe. The nurse was a sweetheart and laughed at this. For the nurses - this is known as "Code Brown" ;-) Sebastian was immediately given a sponge bath which he really enjoyed! Anyhow to the lesson that Sebastian was taught. His first lesson (from us) is NOT to SH!T on people! He is only allowed to SH!T in the toilet or in his diaper. Sebastian even smiled at this (of course after his sponge bath). That was one of the few highlights of yesterday.
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Pictures from Candle Vigil - "Eve of Justice" event
MARRIAGE EQUALITY!!
Me just being a hammy and laughing about something - don't remember what I was laughing about?!? :-)
Part of the crowd!
Very true!
Lighting candles - another part of crowd..
Rainbow Flag
Sheridan - so cute!! :-) (one of Laura and Wendy's sons)
Us with Laura and Francisco (Wendy and Laura's other son)
Francisco having too much fun on me :-)
Me with Francisco
Laura and Wendy - close friends of ours - love them!! :-)
Us - together for ten years and still counting!! :-)
Here they are!!
Sydney Belle - first tan line from "blue" lights to treat her jaundice :-)
Sydney Belle making eye contact with her Daddy TJ
Sydney Belle and Sebastian Zackary sleeping next to each other. AWW! Maximillian Jonas was sleeping in his crib.
Sebastian Zackary's typical expression with his mouth open :-)
In awe of Sydney Belle's feet - so small and cute :-)
Sydney Belle and Sebastian Zackary with Dada Sean and Daddy TJ
Sebastian saying - what do you want now?!? :-)
Sebastian's first witnessed smile - probably from too much gas!! :-)
Another smile of Sebastian's - probably relieved from all gas!!
Dada Sean with Sebastian
Maximillian's finally awake!! :-)
Maximillian making eye contact with Dada Sean and Daddy TJ
Sebastian sleeping
Maximillian sleeping
Sydney Belle sleeping and getting a kiss from her Daddy TJ
Sydney Belle's hand.. :-)
March 5, 2009 Updates
Not much update to tell today. All three continues to make good progress.
Sydney is no longer in an incubator and is now in a crib. Sydney's ultrasound of her heart came back normal. All trio's feeding process is coming slowly. They all appears to be "too tired" to eat and their magnesium level is still a bit high. As it continue to decrease, they all will be more alert and hopefully that will help their feeding process. Other than that, everything else looks great. Hope it stays that way. (Knock on wood) :-)
One thing to clarify - some people seems to be under the impression that March 15th is the day the babies will go home. To be clear, it is NOT definite or guaranteed to be the date they will go home. It is just an assumption the nurse and doctor made based on the trio's progress (yesterday) but again that could change unexpectedly. So please avoid asking "when will they be released?" or "when will we bring them home?" questions. You all will know when we know for sure. :-)
Pictures will be uploaded this evening. Hugs to you all.
The Furman-Sanger Family
Sydney is no longer in an incubator and is now in a crib. Sydney's ultrasound of her heart came back normal. All trio's feeding process is coming slowly. They all appears to be "too tired" to eat and their magnesium level is still a bit high. As it continue to decrease, they all will be more alert and hopefully that will help their feeding process. Other than that, everything else looks great. Hope it stays that way. (Knock on wood) :-)
One thing to clarify - some people seems to be under the impression that March 15th is the day the babies will go home. To be clear, it is NOT definite or guaranteed to be the date they will go home. It is just an assumption the nurse and doctor made based on the trio's progress (yesterday) but again that could change unexpectedly. So please avoid asking "when will they be released?" or "when will we bring them home?" questions. You all will know when we know for sure. :-)
Pictures will be uploaded this evening. Hugs to you all.
The Furman-Sanger Family
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
March 4th updates
Hey all,
Today was supposed to be 34 weeks for us! :-) Our babies are ten days old today. They are doing very well. They were moved over to the "graduates" NICU since NICU is FULL once again. But I believe they will be staying in the "graduates" unit until they are released. As of when they will be released, they could be released as early as March 15th as informed. But they warned us they could stay longer. It all depends on their progress!!
Max is sure gaining weight fast and getting fatter!! At least on his cheeks and neck. LOL! So cute.. Max no longer has a feeding tube inserted in his nostrils. Max has exceeded our expectations and is doing very well. The nurses suspect Max may be the first one to be released! WOW! He has fought HARD. We seriously thought Sydney would be the first one to be released; however, she still struggles with drinking more than 4 to 6 ml of milk by bottle so she needs to keep feeding tube to be fed. As for Sebastian, he is a SLOW eater and will only drink some milk so rest of milk is fed through his feeding tube. All three continue to gain more weight.
Sydney is suspected to have heart murmur and had a heart ultrasound today. The results will come in tomorrow. However, it is believed that it is not a serious condition at this point. Max and Sydney have been detected with slight heart murmurs.
Our surrogate M came to visit us and we enjoyed her company. It was so good to see her. She LOOKS great!!! You would not even think she was pregnant with triplets just ten days ago!! :-)
Wendy and Laura invited us to attend a candle vigil for ANTI-Prop 8 - We were very amazed of how many people were there - The hearing to repeal Prop 8 begins tomorrow -Let's hope Prop 8 gets overturned!! Thank you, Wendy and Laura, for a GREAT time! We enjoyed ourselves.
We will be posting some pictures of our trio and the candle vigil soon.
We five love you all! OXOX
Today was supposed to be 34 weeks for us! :-) Our babies are ten days old today. They are doing very well. They were moved over to the "graduates" NICU since NICU is FULL once again. But I believe they will be staying in the "graduates" unit until they are released. As of when they will be released, they could be released as early as March 15th as informed. But they warned us they could stay longer. It all depends on their progress!!
Max is sure gaining weight fast and getting fatter!! At least on his cheeks and neck. LOL! So cute.. Max no longer has a feeding tube inserted in his nostrils. Max has exceeded our expectations and is doing very well. The nurses suspect Max may be the first one to be released! WOW! He has fought HARD. We seriously thought Sydney would be the first one to be released; however, she still struggles with drinking more than 4 to 6 ml of milk by bottle so she needs to keep feeding tube to be fed. As for Sebastian, he is a SLOW eater and will only drink some milk so rest of milk is fed through his feeding tube. All three continue to gain more weight.
Sydney is suspected to have heart murmur and had a heart ultrasound today. The results will come in tomorrow. However, it is believed that it is not a serious condition at this point. Max and Sydney have been detected with slight heart murmurs.
Our surrogate M came to visit us and we enjoyed her company. It was so good to see her. She LOOKS great!!! You would not even think she was pregnant with triplets just ten days ago!! :-)
Wendy and Laura invited us to attend a candle vigil for ANTI-Prop 8 - We were very amazed of how many people were there - The hearing to repeal Prop 8 begins tomorrow -Let's hope Prop 8 gets overturned!! Thank you, Wendy and Laura, for a GREAT time! We enjoyed ourselves.
We will be posting some pictures of our trio and the candle vigil soon.
We five love you all! OXOX
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