Thank you for the prayers and patience

Thank you all so much for your prayers, patience, all of the phone calls, text messages, and well wishes. We appreciate that you have given us space and grace! We feel like today is actually Day 1... here is a brief recap of the last week:

Wednesday 3/18:
Mom - Labor to emergency c-section, high fever, and high blood pressure but stable.
Abby - Pneumonia, lung troubles, and not feeling so well at all.
Brooke - A little hard time breathing and not feeling to good but not as bad as sister.

Thursday 3/19:
Mom - Started to develop Post Par tum Hypertension and Toxemia (high fever, high blood pressure, extreme swelling, and on the verge of seizures). That evening about 7pm rushed from nursery to bed and put on Magnesium, after 2 hours with no change in worsening conditions 3 very strong antibiotics were started on a 45 minute rotation. Given strict orders of minimum of 24 hours in bed... AHHHHH the pain of not getting to see my girls again.

Friday 3/20:
Dad - Is amazing and rotated between standing at the bed side of his 3 sick ladies, non-stop, 24 hours, then 24 more hours, then 24 more hours, and hasn't stopped yet.

Saturday 3/21:
Girls are stabilized, still in NICU on oxygen, IV fluids, and strong antibiotics.
Mom is taken off the magnesium about 7pm to see if stabilized. Still not feeling well and taking every bit of anything left just to try and nurse the girls every few hours.

Sunday 3/22:
All of us are stabilizing.

Monday 3/23:
Mom - taken of the 45 minute antibiotic rotation to see if body can fight on its own, first 12 hours have gone well, praise the Lord, temp and blood pressure still elevated but not extreme.
Brooke - taken off antibiotics, off the IV, and out of NICU, still on oxygen but in the room with mom and dad!
Abby - Still in NICU but is fighting the pneumonia hard! She is a fighter!

Next steps:
Hopefully mom is discharged in the morning.
Brooke will likely be discharged in the next day or so, she will remain on oxygen for some time still yet to be determined.
Abby has two more days of antibiotics, a few more xrays, and then at least 1 night not in NICU.

The great thing about a small town is that even though Brooke and I will be discharged, we will all get to stay in our little post op room that is two doors down from the NICU. We will be staying here until Abby is released and we can go home as a family of four. We are excited for our first night with Brooke in our room but we miss Abby and still go see her at least once an hour.

We will continue to limit visitors probably even after we are home since all 3 of us are now immune compromised. But we do truly treasure all of the love and support and most importantly the prayers.

Michael and I have had undeniably the hardest week of our life. We first and foremost praise the Lord for seeing us through the storm. We would also like to thank all of you for your help, love, support, and prayers. We look forward to giving you lots of improving updates and yes, finally some more pictures will be posted soon!