19 Weeks

Babies are doing so good. Today I feel really good about them. My cervical length at the doctors was actually longer this week then the last time! 5.64ish. Which is outstanding! I've been trying really hard to relax as much as possible and haven't been lifting things or spending all day on my feet so I think that has helped. The babies are about 1 week apart from each other, I think baby A was right around 19 weeks and baby B was about 20 weeks 3 days. Got some shots of the girls girly parts (see below). My ultrasound tech today was a little crazy... maybe she had too much coffee or she forgot her meds. All I know is that it was like 8am and I got know sleep so I wasn't in the mood for her peppy craziness. She kept singing and dancing and talking all weird to the babies. I just wanted to see the babies and cervix then go take a nap but since she was horsing around it took forever! By the time my ultrasounds are over I'm exhausted and have to pee so bad! I love seeing them but my anatomy scans always take forever and I mean like 40 minutes to an hour! It's a little brutal but I love it.

I brought up a couple questions at my appointment today. I asked about the heart palpitations I have been having. So now I have to see a cardiologist. I think it'll be fine and it's just my heart working harder then it's used to. I already had an ekg at my doc last week and it was fine. So we'll see. I also asked about when we should tour the hospital. The doctor said whenever we want really. Most people wait till the 3rd trimester but with twins anything can happen so we can go whenever we want. I'll probably wait a little while though till maybe I'm 25/26 weeks.

Went to the dentist as well. It was not successful. They just referred me to another dentist which I don't remember what it's called. But they do more invasive things like tooth extraction, root canals and things like that. I go there Thursday. My dentist thinks I need a root canal but I don't believe him because my filling and tooth is all in tact and this pain started extremely sudden so I'm not sure. Guess we will find out. I can't really afford a root canal so hopefully it's something else. If I had a few thousand dollars I would remove all my teeth and get new ones...

Both babies were sleeping for most of the ultrasound and baby A kept yawning and stretching her long legs out, it was the cutest thing I've ever seen! Video of baby A yawning. Hope it works!

The girls girly parts!

The girls

They are officially named Ava and Kennedy. Although we won't know which one is which till they are born and we see which name fits who better.

Sickly.

Im incredibly annoyed today. The past few days I've been sick with a soar throat, stuffy nose and headache. I'm annoyed because I have been trying to be really careful about not getting sick. I heard getting sick while pregnant is the worst since there isn't much you can take. People were right. I have been taking children's dimetapp cold/flu the liquid kind but today I read online that it could cause fetal hypoxia. Meaning the fetuses won't be getting enough oxygen and could die. So good thing I've about finished off the bottle... NOT... I bought it because dimetapp was on my list from my doctor of things I am allowed to take except I don't think it meant children's version. I looked up regular dimetapp and it seemed fine to take while pregnant. I assumed children's would be better since well... obviously it's children's. So I won't be finishing off the bottle I will just live with my tylenol. Dimetapp only worked for about 4 hours anyway.

So here I am 18 weeks and a couple days pregnant. Sick and can't breathe. Fat and can't move. Who are these crazy woman who love being pregnant!??! ya'll are nuts! I'm not exactly complaining since I got myself into this and I know the outcome is going to be amazing beyond words but till then I'm allowed to be a baby and complain. I look forward to next Tuesday and Wednesday. Just to see my beauties again. Make sure they aren't going to fall out any time soon. I still don't feel that much movement which is bumming me out but hopefully I feel it more soon!

Husband put together all the furniture in their room already. 2 gliders. 2 cribs. 2 changing tables (1 of which will be a book a shelf). I feel weird about it. I think it's too soon. I wanted to wait till I was about 25 weeks before doing that. I about had a hormonal melt down while he did it. I keep telling him good luck taking all that apart if the babies don't make it. He thinks I'm being crazy. Which maybe I am but I want to save myself from overwhelming heart break if something goes haywire. So we'll see for now we call it the baby room instead of the green room like we used to call it. It smells amazing in there already with the new wood furniture smell and the amazing air freshener I have in there. Can't wait to add the baby smell!

Just some sentences and rambling.

17weeks3days belly shot!

Definitely getting bigger now! I feel it too!

High Risk Appt. Update.

Welp had my appointment today. Nothing to exciting to report. Found out my cervix length which was 5.24 or something which is really good for now. Baby A's placenta is partially covering my cervix which is called placenta pre via. Doctor wasn't really too concerned. He said as I get further along my uterus should stretch and the placenta will move a little further away from the cervix. But even if it doesn't the only concern is, is when I go to have the babies I'll need a c-section which I was planning on getting done anyway. I'm not supposed to really have sex (wasn't anyway) and I'm not supposed to lift anything (wasn't anyway).

Baby B is significantly bigger then A. She measured around 18 weeks 4 days and A only measures about 17 weeks. Doctor again didn't seem to concerned. He just thinks baby B is takes after her daddy and A takes after me. There weren't any signs of IUGR (intra uterine growth restriction) where the baby is being restricted by something and that's why she's not growing. So it should be ok.

That's really all I have to update about them. I couldn't get a video today... apparently at the high risk doctor you're not allowed to take video. I'll try at my OB appointment in 2 weeks. I also don't have a belly photo yet, you'll have to wait till I'm not lazy later.

We started painting the room. I don't like the color so we are keeping the color it was before we started. It's greenish. Which goes pretty well with the forest owl theme. I'm not spending another 30 dollars on a can of paint. Oh well. I think I'm done for now on buying clothes as well. I'll wait till after the baby shower. I'm focusing on diapers and wipes and other important things. My baby shower is set for Easter weekend. I'll be like 27 weeks I think. And probably huge!

Here are the photos of the babies I only got profile views. I wanted some gender shots but I'll take what I can get since ultrasound techs seem to be stingy on photos.

Baby A has a nice profile shot seeeee....

Baby B wasn't cooperating today so hers is not as good. 

Belly shot coming eventually!

A lot of Babies!

I just found out a 6th friend is pregnant! I felt the need to blog about it. I was all worried when we finally got pregnant that our babies would have no one to play with because all my friends already had kids and most were at least over the age of 1 or so. Now I got 6 other babies to have play dates with! I'm so excited that so many people are pregnant that I know.

I'm 17 weeks today. I wish I was bigger. I'm worried they don't have enough room. A lot of twin pregnant moms I see are bigger then me. Which I guess we'll find out on Thursday. I've been feeling a lot more motivated to get up and do things and I think I should slow down just a little. I'm not on bed rest yet and I don't want end up bed rest so I need even out my activities so my cervix stays nice and strong! :)

With all these other pregnant girls comes more fear that my babies won't make it and I'll have to watch a couple of my closest friends bring home their babies. I don't think I'll feel secure until I'm at least and I mean at least 25 weeks. Although 27 is better. I don't want to invite micro premies into the world. But so far I'm half way to our first goal of 32 weeks.

Anyway Happy Valentines Day! Sorry for the random boring blog.

Shopping spree. Well part of it.

My favorite outfits so far

Just more cute outfits. Some that match. Some that don't. 

Tiniest outfit I have ever seen! Thought I should get a few preemie outfits just in case. Most twins are born early. And girls tend to be on the small side anyway. 

Some of their clothes thus far! They are going to need a lot more. But that's what baby showers are for :) I bought more then this but they aren't on hangers. And we got cribs. 2 gliders that I hope fit in the room. Mattresses. Boxes of diapers and wipes. From this point on till after the shower we will just be loading up on diapers and wipes. Unless I find something I can't pass up!

I thought I was really picky about girls clothes before we got pregnant with two of them. Now I think nearly everything is super cute! I'm not too into too many things pink. But some is def. cute! And I'm not into anything too brightly colored but again a couple things are cute! Shopping for girls is more fun then I thought. And the fact we have two of the same sex is super fun to dress them the same! 

I keep joking that they better come out safe and sound because of everything we have already bought. It really does scare me that something can go wrong at any point. Then what? I already delegated the husband to be the return man because it'll be too rough to even go in that room. But I'm trying to bottle up fears and try to stay positive. Just the more things we get and the more people we tell I get so scared. Some people at this point in pregnancy still haven't announced their pregnant. And everyone we know has known since the day we found out. Just freaks me out and I'm getting more excited but with that comes more fear. I just can't wait to finally get what we've always wanted and have been waiting for for so long!

16 Weeks 1 Day Appt.

Went to the doctor today. They didn't really look at the babies too much. They were just checking my cervix which was just perfect. And heartbeats. I don't know the exact length of it, all they said was that it was more then 5cm which is fantastic and it looked great. So that was a relief. Anything under 3cm is in the danger zone. But they said no signs of anything like that. I go back in 3 weeks to have it checked again. Plus it'll be checked again next week at my high risk appointment. So I'm being closely watched which makes me feel a little relieved. A little disappointed we didn't get any sonogram pictures today. I don't have any good ones since the 13week ones. But probably next week.

I had a transvaginal ultrasound done today. That's how they check the cervix. As soon as she stuck the wand in she automatically said it was a girl. Which happened to be baby A. The one we couldn't figure out the sex of. So we got 2 GIRLS!! I'm not going to lie, I was extremely disappointed at first because I was praying for 1 of each. Mainly because I don't want to be pregnant again and I always have wanted a boy. But I'm over the shock thanks to some much needed baby retail therapy!

Bought a couple matching outfits! One in particular that is my favorite, It's a little 3month tutu dress. It's going to look really cute for when they get pictures done! I don't plan on dressing them alike forever, just when they are little. Even then it'll only be every now and then. I'll post pictures when I'm not being lazy later. I also got a little preemie outfit at Ross's for like 6 bucks and it originally is like 20. Cutest, Tiniest thing ever. Again I'll post pics when Im done being lazy.

That's about all the updates I have. I'll post again after my appointment next Thursday! Or before of cute things I've bought. :)

Blabbing

Tiredness has really kicked in the last couple days. BUT... I can't sleep. Doesn't make sense. It's too early to not be sleeping, I have a long road ahead of not being able to sleep.

Went to the doctor yesterday. Wasn't really that successful. BUT... we do know that there is at least 1 GIRL in the oven! I'm excited. I'll be even more excited if the other one is a boy! Like I said two girls isn't bad, I'll be thrilled. BUT... I don't ever want to be pregnant again (remind me to look at this like a year from now). I will get pregnant again with our leftover embryos (6 of them). But we will make sure just to put back a boy. Oh, and just 1 embryo implanted. Not doing the twin thing again. Not that it's not amazing, but I'm the worst pregnant person ever.

Next week I'm praying that the ultrasound tech can tell us what baby A is. Everyone I see is saying boy so far but no definite answers. Just guesses.

Today I've been really thirsty. Don't know why. I've had going on 6 glasses of beverage. 3 of which are water and I'll probably have 2 more glasses before bed.

I don't really have anything else to talk about... I am however so glad I know someone who was pregnant with twins not long ago and I can go to her for questions and advice. It's very helpful. I still use my fetal heart rate thing everyday. 2 times to 3 times a day. I'm hoping I stop once I can feel more defined movement. For now it's hard to tell gas from babies but I kind of have it down.

Time for dinner.