From Friday, 33 week appt

We had our ultrasound today and everything looks good with the babies, and with me! Baby A is measuring about 5 pounds and 1 ounce, and Baby B is about 4 pounds and 12 ounces, so they're about 1/2 pound apart, which is fine. As long as they are within 1 pound of each other, that is good. Both babies have good fluid around them, and seem to be progressing and growing just as they should be. Baby A is still head down, and it is stretched out and up, it's back/butt is up toward the top of my stomach, on the right, along with its feet. Baby B is still head up, and exactly the opposite way, it's butt is down the left side, and right now, it is folded up with it's feet up and right near it's head. so basically, both of their feet are toward the top of my belly, which is right where I feel most of the movement. I am definitely swelling, and it's not going down too much at all. The doctor said that whatever I decided to do about work, they would support, and it would be completely fine and normal if I decided to quit work early. I'm going to just play it by ear, work the next 2 weeks, since I have 2 days off anyway, and then after the first of the year, see how the swelling is and see how uncomfy I am. Driving is not an easy thing right now, and having to drive 45 mins each way can be a bit much at times. They told me again that the babies probably would not move much more at this point, due to space constrictions. So unless a miracle happens and Baby B really decides it wants to completely flip, the likelihood of having a c-section is pretty high, since both of them will not be head down. I'm sure stranger things have happened, but the chances are decreasing, that's for sure! So in a nutshell, everything is still going just fine! They said the babies look good and healthy, and I am doing good. I am def. having contractions, I had 3 while I was there in the doctor's office, and I just have to watch them and be mindful of them and try to count if I can. I still dont' always know exactly when I'm having one, but I'm going to try to be more conscious of it. Since we've had some computer probs, my scanner is not hooked up anymore, but I'll see if we can hook it up again, and I'll scan a few ultrasound pics over the weekend and send them. You can see Baby B's face really good, Baby A's is all crunched down in the pelvis area, so you couldn't see it's face very well at all. Anyway, something is better than nothing! Keep us in your thoughts and prayers, it's getting close! :-)

Playing catch up

Not too much has been going on for me to blog about, and I really have to be in the mood to sit down and do it. Everything is still going just fine with us and with the babies. I saw the regular OB today, not much was said, and then we go to our favorite doctor for the ultrasound on Friday morning. I know we'll have much more of a statistical update then!
Pregnancy is still going well, though I have many more aches and pains than before. I'm not sleeping still which has been a tough adjustment. I have now permanently moved to the couch and though every once in a while I try to start out in the bed, I only last about an hour. I can't lay on my sides at all, so I sleep pretty much sitting up, propped up on pillows. I'm getting used to it though and the other night, I slept for a whole 6 hours!!!!

I've started swelling a little. I have prided myself in not having many of "those" symptoms, but I can't be in denial any longer. My feet/ankles are def. swelling and I guess it just goes with the territory.

My belly has also taken an unexpected turn down. It used to be out...but now, after taking my last set of pictures, it looks...weird. It hangs down more, not to be gross or anything, but it def. looks different, and I didn't even realize it until I looked at the pictures. It looks more like a beer belly to me right now, lol...which by the way, I never ever want to have. Ever.

We took our last trip to WR before the babies came, last weekend. It was nice to see everyone, and I'll just leave you with a few pictures to enjoy! Happy Monday!

Was this me?

I've always admired pregnant people and their bellies. I've always enjoyed looking at pictures of pregnant people and how much their bodies change. I think it's neat and natural and beautiful.
Now that I'm pregnant, I find that people stare at me, which is slightly weird. Anywhere I'm going, at work, at a store, anywhere, people politely smile and their gaze travels down to my belly. I can see it move, and I'm like wait, where are your eyes going?!
And they settle on the belly.
I wonder if I used to do that too? I think some if it is natural, you don't really mean for it to happen...but it's still slightly strange. So from now on, once my pregnancy is over, I am going to attempt to look at the person and NOT the belly. Unless I can do it in secret, lol...

From My Babies....

Apparently the babies heard me and Billy talking one day about these Christmas bathroom decorations at Target. I didn't think we could really afford to get them, but apparently the babies thought we definitely needed them. Sooo, yesterday when I got home from work, I had a big box wrapped up, just waiting to be opened. And this is what was inside, with the adorable tag on the outside!
I love my husband very much!

Bloody noses and curtains

I got my first nose bleed of pregnancy this weekend and acutally, I had 2!
I had the first one in Billy's parent's car of all places. Then about 2-3 hours later, I was sitting on their couch, just sitting there watching TV and it started again. Have no idea what caused it, but it happened. A pregnancy symptom, yes!!!

My sweet husband put the curtains up in the baby room this weekend, all by himself, and without me knowing. We ran errands on Saturday morning and I was slightly sleepy when we got home, and I took a little nap. When I got up later on and was moving around the house, I noticed they were up! They look cute and I thought it was so sweet that he'd do it without even being asked.

My computer died, no more power to it right now, so I can't scan the ultrasound pictures right now. I tried to take pictures from the DVD, but they are blurry and you can't see them well at all. Sooo, no ultrasound pictures at this time. Maybe they will come later.

Hope the weekend was well! :-)

29 week update

This is the e-mail update I sent out this morning, from our appt:

Well, I had my ROC appt this morning, I'm at 29 weeks today.
Everything still looks great! My cervix is still "nice and long and closed" and both babies look awesome.
Baby A is measuring at 3 pounds, 9 ounces, and Baby B is measuring at 3 pound 7 ounces. So they are good sized babies, and basically growing at the rate of a singleton pregnancy right now. Both heartbeats look good, the amniotic fluid looks good, the doctor said that everything was just going great. Their first goal with twins is to get to 28 weeks, and then the next goal is 32 weeks, so by the time I go in and see them again, I'll be at 33 weeks.
Baby A's head is down, in the lower left section of my tummy and its body curls around to the right, and its feet are up in the upper right section of the belly. Baby B's head is at the top right of my tummy ( Baby A has its feet on B's head), and B is folded up, with its feet and legs also on top of its head. It's butt is going across the tummy, down to the left, so basically B's butt is in A's head. B is just sitting across the middle of the top of the stomach, kind of bent over.
The pictures we got today are not great, we were in a different ultrasound room, but I will still scan them tonight. I might also take some still shots of the DVD, and maybe try to see how they look. Either way, they'll be coming later, since I have to do that from home.
Please continue to pray for us and wish us good health through the remaining weeks of this pregnancy, which is less than 9 to go!!!!


So you can see from the above that everything is going great!
Sleep is NOT. I am having a terrible time getting comfy. I know it's all part of pregnancy, but it's very hard, laying down at night, getting ready to sleep the night away and you can't. I do have a new pillow though and hopefully that will help a bit.

I had my first baby related bad dream last night. I actually had 2, one worse than the other. The first one I dreamed that the babies came early and they were making me hold both of them. One was very small, but looked normal. The other one was not developed at all, it actually looked like a soup ladel ( have no idea what that means), and I kept saying, this one is not Ok, and they made me hold it, and kept saying that we needed to let God know that we wanted to keep the baby with us. It was sooo sad, and in my dream me and Billy were just crying and crying, holding the babies...and of course I woke up just sobbing. I was on the couch, so I went and woke Billy up so he could console me.

The next dream I had was that I had an ingrown hair in my stomach. I was trying to get it out, pluck it, cut it, cut a little of it out, and I was doing a little surgery on my stomach and I accidentally cut into my stomach, and it ended up being the baby's hair, not an ingrown hair. I had the little hole in my belly, and I was just trying to pull the hair out, and I realized it was attached to a head, that I could now see in my belly. Very weird.

I know that a lot of people have dreams, but I don't like the bad ones! I hope I don't have many more!

Pictures will be coming later this weekend, of the ultrasound, and of my 29 week belly. I know everyone is just dying to see THAT!
Happy Friday!

Quick look back

This is the first picture of my belly that we took, at 6 weeks....

And here it is now! At 27 weeks and counting...I think it's changed a tiny bit, lol....


Today I did the diabetes walk with Fidelity, AKA The Sugar Substitutes! I walked with Christie ( my sis in law) and Aunt Sandra. It was held at the zoo, and we just walked around, looked around, and did our duty to help fight Diabetes. Here is the team photo, minus a few team members who didn't get to the photo shoot in time!