FOUR little FULTONS: growth

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Saturday, January 30, 2010

check out our brown eyed beauties...

While searching for a few pictures to add to my next blog post I found some OLD photos of D & Cam stored on our PC. I also found ones of him & the others but these were so darn cute I just had to share them! I could not believe that I had "misplaced" them inside our computer! I guess when you take as many pictures as I do you are bound to misplace a few! LOL! Our two brown eyed beauties! D may not like being called a beauty but he is one handsome boy! And beauty is in the eye of the beholder! If ever two children looked alike it would be the two of them! Boy did I start reminiscing when I found these pics! It amazes me at how much they both have grown over the past three years! WOW! Camryn has always been our biggest baby but even she has grown into herself & D, well he is now taller & bigger than me PLUS he wears a size 14 shoe! CRAZY! She is the only one that has the same olive complexion (she can tan in like 5 minutes!), the same brown hair & adorable brown eyes! There is NO way he can deny her as his sister! She is the female version of him! (=

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check out our brown eyed beauties...

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Buddy...

Funny how just one year can change SO much! These children of ours have grown so much in the past year, not only in height but also in vocabulary. The say SO much! The things that come out of their mouths! YIKES! Makes me bite my tongue on quite a few occasions for fear they will repeat me! LOL! One of the words that has stuck has been Linz's nickname for Brendan. She does not call him Brendan or Brendy, but calls him "Buddy". It is SO cute seeing how she interacts with him & shows him her affection. Just yesterday she held him in her arms & rubbed the hair on his head and neck. You know how soft & fuzzy the hair is after a buzz cut, well she ran her fingers across the back of his neck & he just giggled. He is by far our most ticklish child! He loved every moment of the attention she gave him! SO SO cute! Maybe they will continue that bond once school starts & be the twosome that stays together in their first classroom. You know I will NOT be splitting them up if I don't have to! Oh to be two and not have a care in the world! (= These children definitely give us more joy than we even realize. Lately my smiles have come from watching Linz and her...

Buddy...

Sunday, September 28, 2008

We won the lottery!....

This has been one LONG weekend. The things we will do for the almighty buck! Over the past three days I have worked 36 hours and I have 8 more hours to go tomorrow. My work at my
other PAYING job. My alter ego as the police/fire dispatcher. I have been doing this job for so long that I do not know any better. I always said that I would be a stay at home mom once I became one. BUT as soon as they told me we were having 4 babies that plan changed! I knew that I would need to get out & be around adults. Going to work is my outlet. Not only is it a paycheck BUT I get to be around adults. YAY! You can always use some EXTRA money when you have a big family like ours! Raising 4 babies & a soon to be teenager is EXPENSIVE! Yes it has been rough, Yes there are times when I only get to see them for a few moments here & there BUT it is worth it. I keep telling myself that this will all pay off in the end. This is a journey & we learn as we go. I revel in the moments I do have with them. PLUS I have a WONDERFUL husband that is an AWESOME dad. He let's me do this. He is my equal in more ways than one & I love him so! I have been SO lucky! Now if only that luck would rub off so we could say....

We won the lottery!...

Our Story...

Ok I am now over 8 years into this "job" of mine, being a mommy to multiples, high order multiples to boot! They say that if you try to conceive without protection for one year with no success then you are infertile. Those words were a lot to take in. I sought answers from everyone. We started out with our 1st OB/GYN Dr William Casale doing the normal testing that they were equipped to do. We did it all, IUI's, spermwashing, etc. I then contacted RESOLVE, a wonderful organization for people like me (could not get pregnant). I started making mental notes of what I needed to achieve my dream, to be a mom! The next step was to go see a Fertility Doctor. We chose to see Dr Mark Denker. After checking me out he then referred Michael to see a Urologist who ended up putting him on clomid. Yes, men can take this RX too! It helps make more sperm just like it helps a woman create more follicles. It is AMAZING the things you learn when you are trying to conceive! After further testing we were both told we had fertility issues, I had fewer eggs than a woman my age & they were "tough", Michael had double vericasils so that in order for us to have the "best odds" we needed to go the IVF route. I had this feeling that it was not going to work right away, call it my intuition. So we bought a package, can you even believe that they sell "packages" like a travel agency? Our "package" included 3 rounds of IVF with ICSI, minus all the meds I would need. The drugs are an expense we did not even think of but had to purchase for this entire thing to work. Well, it ended up taking all 3 rounds of IVF & accupuncture courtesy of Dr Susan Schiff for me to get pregnant & boy did I get pregnant! (Trust your intuition!) We started out with very few follicles, only 3 fertilized into embryo's and all three took. I was finally pregnant! 8 weeks into my pregnancy one of the embryo's split & became identical. Can you believe that!? What are the odds? No one told me that could happen! AMAZING! We had a lot of decisions to make. No one thought that we should keep all four. In the medical world it is called a "selective reduction". Only a few doctors even do this procedure. We did not know what our future would hold just that we could not reduce anything! In the beginning we had a hard time finding a doctor that felt like we did & wanted our four babies to thrive! We finally found Dr Moises Virelles, a fellow Christian & my now OB/GYN. He then referred us to an AWESOME Perinatologist, Dr Gary Cohen. Having the two of them on our side we knew ANYTHING was possible! My pregnancy was really uneventful. I was put on "bed rest" at 22 weeks. I later found out my "bed rest" was unlike other women's bed rest. I was just not allowed to work. I continued to do things, just stayed off my feet as much as possible. If I went shopping I would ride a motorized scooter. If I went to a party I sat pretty much the entire time. I had no issues, my cervix was long & rock solid. I really feel that God wanted me to be a mommy! The babies were great! They kicked each other more than they kicked me! People would look at me & could not believe that I had four babies inside me, I tell you I was meant to carry quads! Now don't get me wrong, it was not a joy ride, I was miserable towards the end & felt it very difficult to breathe. I never even went into the hospital prior to January 15th. Even though I asked them to admit me MANY times!! On January 17, 2007 we welcomed our GBGG quads; Camryn, Brendan, Avery & Lindsey into this world. 1 set is fraternal & 1 set is identical. They weighed 4 lb 7 oz, 4 lb 4 oz, 3 lb 6 oz & 3 lb 3 oz. I made it 32 weeks 5 days when I delivered them at St Mary's Medical Center. They were all HEALTHY and they did not need to be intubated! WOO HOO! They were little miracles destined to be here! I had nurses come up to me & tell me how wonderful it was that I carried them so long, that it was a better gift holding onto them as long as I did than a Harvard education! WOW! We were SO happy, excited & most of all unprepared for how much our life was about to change. I will say it was a GOOD change! I cannot imagine my life without them! Everyone watches our little ones in amazement & they still do. This is their story....

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