Video of Melody and Madison moving at the Hospital

Hello everyone, here is a picture of what our lives looked like from 2:30 until 9:00pm (that's when we moved rooms) . One of the monitors is for the babies heart beat and the other one is to monitor the contractions.

All the nurses that took care of us were so sweet! If yall are reading this thank you so much for everything!




For you formed my inward parts;
you knitted me together in my mother's womb.
I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.
My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret,
intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written,
every one of them, the days that were formed for me,
when as yet there were none of them.

- Psalm 139: 13-16


Praise the Lord life begins at conception!

Below you can see the babies moving in my womb.
(You can hear their heart beating in the back ground.)

THANK YOU ALL!

We have been so blessed by so many people during this pregnancy, I just wanted to send out a quick blog entry to say THANK YOU!

Thank you for all the emails, cards, flowers, giving Destinee rides, making food, mowing the lawn, taking care of Kenya, keeping us company, and most of all thank you so much for all of your prayers! This has been such a sweet time for us a family and such a sweet time for us with the Lord.

God is good and has used you all to encourage and comfort us during this time!

THANK YOU ALL YOUNG AND OLD FOR ALL THE GREAT REMINDERS!

Were Home

After a long 24 hours we are HOME!
Thank you all for your prayers and support we just got home and are tired, but happy that I was not in labor.

After we left the hospital we went by to see my doctor, he explained to us that the contractions are going to be normal from here on out. We have 6 pounds of babies in there (each one weighs about 3 pounds), my uterus is the size of a full term uterus and my amniotic fluid level is twice as high as it should be. So my body thinks it's full term and it's ready to deliver these babies.

I am not dilated so that is good news and the test to see how likely I am to go into preterm labor came back negative. So from what he could tell I'm not very likely to go into preterm labor in the next two weeks. After that they will do the preterm labor test again and see what it says. As long as I'm not dilated he is going to leave everything as it is. But if my cervix starts changing he is going to deliver. We will be seeing him every week from here on out.

Please be praying for my body that it would be able to hold these babies in there until I'm at least 36 weeks.

Please be praying for all the medical staff that God would give them wisdom in dealing with our care and if any of them don't know Him that they would repent of their sins and put their full trust in Jesus for their salvation.

Please be praying for our kids (Destinee and Kenya) that their hope would be in the Lord.

Please be praying for my sweet husband who has taken over everything so all I have to do is rest.

Please please be praying for Melody and Madison that the Lord's will would be done. That He would keep them in my womb and on this Earth as long as He sees fit.

And most of all pray that God will be glorified through our sweet babies lives!

Hospital for the night

It's is roughly 11:10pm and I just got off the phone with my brother.

Vanessa Kay is going to try and get some much needed rest. Jason is reading and will hopefully sleep.

The staff will continue to monitor Vanessa Kay through the night. After breakfast, they will make a decision on whether Jason and Vanessa Kay can make their way home or not.

She is still having up to 12 contractions per hour.

Please pray for rest for our brother and sister. They are physically tired. I know it takes a long time for Vanessa to get comfortable and sleep with ease due to the fact that she is carrying Madison and Melody.

You can check here for regular updates. I will be updating until Jason and Vanessa Kay get home safely.

Jason and Vanessa Kay are thankful for your prayers and love all of you dearly.

May our God continue to work even as we sleep. Antonio.

Hospital Update

I got a phone call from Jason and Vanessa Kay.

The hospital staff ran some tests and Vanessa Kay is not in pre-term labor. Her contractions were getting stronger for a moment but have since gone down.

The staff has decided to keep her overnight for observation.

They are currently waiting to be moved to a room. She is not dilated which is wonderful.

I feel like Vanessa's smile is a wonderful testimony.

With a sincere heart. Antonio.

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Hospital

Jason, Vanessa, Madison and Melody are at hospital right now.

Earlier this morning, Vanessa's contractions had accelerated to more than 10 and hour. Their doctor requested that they go into the hospital for further observation. Please pray with us that the contractions would stop. The contractions are currently 1 minute apart from each other.

Jason educated me on the wonders of having children. Currently, Vanessa is 31 weeks into her term. She must go at least 34 weeks for the babies to have the possibility of breathing on their own.

As I spoke to Jason on the phone, I hear the heart monitor ringing periodically. The frequency was beautiful and moving. God is the designer of all life. He is an artist and architect far greater than we can imagine. He is the engineer of all things; the foreman and sculptor that we should never take for granted.

The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they display knowledge. There is no speech or language where their voice is not heard. Their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world. In the heavens he has pitched a tent for the sun, Psalms 19. 1-4.

144 beats per minute never sounded so lovely once you realize that God has directed the music that hits your ears.

Jason and Vanessa will be updating me as the evening progresses.

Please join us in earnest prayer as God's work is mighty. He will glorified in the outcome and He alone is sovereign. Please pray for peace and strength for their family.

With love and devotion, from a satellite heart to our Savior above. Antonio (Uncle Toe Toe/Toby/Little Tony)

Neonatologist Appointment (Medically, nothing can help our conjoined twins)

Today we had our first appoint with the neonatologist. He was really sweet and did a great job explaining himself to us in terms we could understand. He was especially interested in our case because he is not only a neonatologist, but also a cardiologist. More than that, he found out when his wife was pregnant at 12 weeks that they had twins and one of them had a enlarged head that would be fatal to his child. Abortion was also not a option for them, so they delivered and their one boy lived until he was 9 months, the other twin is still alive to this day. So not only was he a expert in the field that dealt with our situation, but he also understood what we are going through emotionally, and all the hard decision making we have that goes with it.

He and his NICU team (26 in total) have been discussing and looking into our case for the last 5 days or so. Since finding out about our situation there have been 2 more cases of conjoined twins just like ours. One set of conjoined twins was delivered last week but has already died.

He called the top 3 hospitals that deal with cases like ours this week to see if there was anything they could do, but all of them said none of them would do any surgerys based on our babies heart condition and the way they were conjoined since 100% of the surgeries done to help babies like this end up in the babies dying withing 1 to 3 days. He was looking for some kind of ray of hope and was surprised that there wasn't anyone that would even try anything.

• Our twins are Thoracopagus - joined at the chest; share a single heart and have some cardiac connection issues; some organs in the abdominal region may be malformed (about 40 percent of conjoined twins)

After we were done talking with him, my doctor (who is a pernatologist) and the cardiologist came in to make sure we were all on the same page. I'm so thankful for all of these doctors but especially my doctor, it was great to have him in there.

So as it stands, there is nothing that can be done medically to help our babies.

We now pray that the twins would be born breathing (since that is still a concern) and that my (Vanessa's) recovery, from the csection, would be quick so I can spend as much time with the babies as possible. We also pray that God would heal their heart. We pray that God's will be done and that Jesus Christ would be glorified no matter the life span of Melody & Madison.

As you do not know the way the spirit comes
to the bones in the womb of a woman with child,
so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.
- Ecclesiastes 11:5

Happy Birthday Tyler

Kenya's good friend Tyler turned two and we were there to celebrate.

It was such a fun birthday party Kenya enjoyed swinging with Tyler,

jumping in the bounce house with Parker,

climbing through the tunnel,

and eating all the icing off of her cupcake!

Thanks for the fun day Tyler and HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Kenya's 1st Ice Cream Cone

Our good friends Curt and Jay helped Jason install a light
above the garage (thanks guys) so I took the kids to get ice cream.

Kenya was so cute with her very first ice cream cone.

Sara, James, and, Nathaniel (3 of Jay's kids) enjoyed their ice cream also.

Kenya even shared with Daddy. What a sweet girl!

update from vanessa's doctor

Hello everyone, we went to the doctor today and I just wanted to give a quick update.

Melody and Madison each weigh a little over 3 pounds and both girls were moving their mouths during the sonogram. They are getting so big and are so cute!

We were glad to hear that my blood pressure is good, my feet and hands are not swollen, and the amniotic fluid level is good.

We set a tentative delivery date of December 22nd. We chose this date for many reasons, but mostly so that Destinee would be on Christmas break when Melody and Madison are born. Most twins are born around 36 weeks and I will be 38 weeks when we deliver so please be praying we will make it to that date if it is the Lords will. Also pray for a quick recovery for me after the csection, there is a chance that I will be in the hospital on Christmas which is a bummer but I want to do what's best for our family. We still have to meet with the babies heart surgeon and if we choose to do surgery we will have to move the delivery date up a week.

So that's all the new news. Thanks for keeping up with us.