Our Three Blessings Have Arrived!!

We have had a wonderful day and are happy to announce that our triplets have arrived! A home health nurse visit this morning revealed that Baby A's heart rate had a few significant decelerations. This was quite alarming since all three babies performed extremely well during their biophysical profiles moments before. From our home, the nurse called the Dr. and I was ordered to go immediately to Abbott for further testing. Upon arrival, Baby A continued to have multiple slow spurts and we were in surgery within 30 minutes.


Let us introduce you to the newest members to Team Auge!
Andrew Charles: 3 lbs, 10 ounces
Elizabeth Rose: 4 lbs
Luke Thomas: 4 lbs 9 ounces





Luke was sent directly to the NICU at Children's Hospital for breathing assistance, but is expected to do very well.
Ellie and Andy are doing fabulous and are at Abbott Hospital in the Special Care Nursery. All are expected to stay a few weeks due to their prematurity. We are truly blessed to have made it to 34 weeks and 1 day - Thank you so much for all of your prayers!

33 Weeks!

Today we had a great Dr. appointment and all of the babies are doing well! Baby A is the biggest and is estimated to weigh 4 lbs 7 oz, baby boys B and C are both estimated to weigh 4 lbs. It is hard to believe that at some point during the next two weeks we will be the proud parents of five! I was instructed to discontinue my contraction medicine on Sunday (34 weeks) and then we will just wait to see what happens!

After returning from the Dr., Charlie was so excited that Tim was able to take him to school, and Tommy enjoyed some extra cuddle time with Daddy before he had to head out to work for the day!

We are all doing well and I am happy to be back home :) Thanks again for the prayers!

Making room for 3, 4, & 5!

Last night was a big night at the Auge house and Tim moved Tommy's bed into Charlie's room to make room for the babies. Tommy does not favor change and has been pretty reluctant when we've discussed the idea of moving into Charlie's room since he is so proud of his own basketball-themed room. His little world has been turned upside down during the last few months with me being on bed rest, so we wanted to make sure that he was comfortable and excited for the big move across the hall. Last night he expressed a slight interest and we decided to roll with it and get things moving before he changed his mind! For the first night, we granted their request and let the boys sleep side by side. We soon realized that compromise would be needed since Charlie sleeps with the door shut and light off and Tommy needs to fall asleep with the light on and the door open. Charlie often needs to jam to some tunes to fall asleep and Tommy likes the silence. We did a slight staggering of bedtimes to make this work and everyone was happy! Overall, the boys did great, slept well and enjoyed sleeping in their "big boy baseball room" together!
Here is Tim laying with the boys - enjoying the idea that the bedtime "process" (prayers, books, tuck-ins) will take 1/2 the time with both boys in the same room!

Still Cooking!

The nurse visited our home on Monday and all of the babies scored a perfect 10/10 on their biophysical profiles! Their heart rates were very strong and reactive and the nurse commented on how the monitor picked up baby A's excitement after hearing Charlie and Tommy's voices as they entered the room!

Today we had a great clinic appointment and all three babies performed like champs during the non-stress test! My vitals and blood pressure looked great and we hope to keep these babies cooking for a while longer. A c-section date was scheduled for March 23rd (only 20 more days of bed rest at the most!!!)! Oh, what a blessing it would be to make it to this date :)

We look forward to the growth scan ultrasound scheduled for next Tuesday to determine the weights of the babies.

Thank you for all of the prayers!

32 Weeks!!!!!

Today we have reached a HUGE goal and are 32 weeks with the triplets! We were told early on in the pregnancy by the perinatologists that babies born at 32 weeks are tiny, but generally have the same long-term outcome as babies born at 40 weeks. We still hope for a few more weeks of growth, but feel so lucky and thankful to have reached this milestone! During my 100 days of bed rest, I have always prayed for our little trio to have March birthdays and it looks like this dream is going to come true! We feel so blessed and want to thank our family and friends for your continued prayers.


Tim continues to do a fabulous job running the house, tending to us all, cooking, shopping, bathing the boys, and being the fun, active daddy that Charlie and Tommy adore. I am amazed every day as he continues to take on so much responsibility, along with working full-time, with such a positive attitude and a smile on his face. My love and admiration for Tim as a husband and a daddy grows every single day :)

We are so thankful for the unbelievable help we have received from our families. Tim's parents are spending the next couple of weeks with us and the boys are having a blast spending quality time with grandma and grandpa!

The boys have enjoyed watching the Olympics and mimicking all of the winter sports they observe. Tim and I are just amazed at their creativity and imaginations! For the downhill skiing, they place books under their feet (for the ease of sliding across our carpet) while using hockey sticks for ski poles - and they sit on big pillows for their bobsleds! Hockey is always a big hit and today they enjoyed an outside game with daddy in the beautiful sunshine!






We had a wonderful weekend and found both a nanny and doula! We had interviews sprinkled throughout the weekend and feel so relieved to have found the care we have been looking for!

Thanks again for your prayers and support!

31 Weeks!

This morning during the OB Homecare visit the nurse completed biophysical profiles on the babies and they all scored a perfect 10 out of 10! The test grades each baby after meeting certain criteria for breathing motions, muscle tone, movement, fluid pockets around each baby, and includes a non-stress test to observe heart rate accelerations. Although my contractions are very frequent, the babies do not seem to be affected at all by the constant belly tightening!


We had a nice weekend at home and Tim was able to enjoy some outside play with the boys in the mild winter weather. The boys enjoyed sliding down the snow cliff in our yard and playing with their trucks and shovels in the huge piles of snow!

Grandma Mary and Papa Bernard arrived today to watch the boys and we are so thankful for the huge support we have received from our families and friends!

Back Home!

It has been an eventful week, but we are happy to report that I am back at home! I was admitted to Abbott on Tuesday with contractions occurring every 1-4 minutes. After being loaded with magnesium sulfate, 8 terbutaline injections, nifedipine, morphine, and numerous other medications, the babies decided to hang out in utero for a little while longer! Thursday's growth scan ultrasound revealed that all three babies are still growing (and weigh between 2 lbs 15 oz and 3 lbs 3 oz) and are doing great! I was released from Abbott yesterday. My contractions are still 4-8 minutes apart, but we had a negative fFn test on Tuesday and the physicians have increased my clinic visits to weekly for closer monitoring.
Grandma Sheila flies back to Arizona today and we are all sad to see her leave :( We are so thankful for all she has done for us during the past three weeks and have enjoyed and appreciate every second of her stay!