30 weeks

This week has been stressful because my 14 year old daughter got her learners permit and won't let me go anywhere without her driving us there...wow so scary teaching someone to drive. I told her she was going to put me into preterm labor from anxiety!  She's actually not a bad driver, it's just scary. 
Other than that it is so hot right now! I wake up and am fine, but as soon as I go outside it's like the heat sucks all the energy right out of me and I just want to take a nap!  The pool is a nice hangout though.  It holds up the weight of my belly and cools me off at the same time. But I have to talk myself into going because its so hot I don't even want to go outside! Once I get there though it's all good.
I still generally feel pretty good though.  I still physically don't feel any different than I did with my singleton pregnancies, actually I'd say I feel better.  Again I'm gonna attribute that to the weight loss prior to pregnancy and the eating healthier and staying active.  I remember when I was pregnant with my son just laying on the couch from exhaustion.  Not for an hour or 2, but all day long!  No wonder I gained so much weight with him.  The only other difference would be the movement.  I feel a lot of movement and it's pretty forceful.  I think maybe because there's less room than with a singleton? 
The "contractions" continue  irregularly and not too painful. Last but not least, Shaving!  Forget shaving! If you've ever been pregnant you know what I mean.  I'd say around 26 weeks shaving became virtually impossible, but now shaving is totally impossible! I still manage, but I'm thinking waxing is the answer.  Never done it before, but I think at this point it's worth a shot!  Too bad it's not winter ;)
Still having dreams about labor and delivery too.  I've never had an epidural with any of my deliveries, but I think my subconscious is taking over and since I've never delivered twins before it's worried that it'll hurt more than the normal?  Who knows?  My husband has very little faith in me he says I'm gonna get it this time.  I'll give him a little credit I was pretty close last time, labor hurts! And when it's not your baby why suffer? But I sure do love being able to get up and walk and use the bathroom on my own right away.  Also the IV comes out faster and I can get out of the hospital sooner.  So many advantages to not having it, and if the painful part goes quickly, why not try?  I guess here in about 8 weeks we will see what happens!!!

29 weeks

Well I'm now 29 weeks pregnant with di-di twin boys for two of the most awesome people ever. My family and I have officially met both dads and are even more excited about our journey. 9 weeks or so  and they will get to meet each other (the dads and the babies). S was here for a couple of days and got to spend a little time with everyone. It went well, hopefully his next visit we'll get to spend more time with him but he did get to see and feel the babies move!  That was one of my main goals. Oh and he brought me chocolate! What pregnant girl doesn't LOVE chocolate?  Well it's delicious!  Anyways still feeling pretty good been having several contractions a day, but of coarse these aren't real contractions just practice but they bring lots of pressure and a tiny bit of pain, nothing severe of coarse or I'd be worried, but they are very irregular like extremely irregular! Baby A still moves a lot more than B I decided one has to be the calm one for their sakes. They can't have 2 crazy babies that wouldn't be fair!
S will be back down in like 7-8 weeks and shortly after that hopefully we will have some babies? All my dreams lately have to do with delivering the babies. Of coarse being a labor and delivery nurse doesn't help that I'm sure, but so far they've all been good dreams. No bad mojo here!
Let's see I've gained about 37 pounds so far which isn't bad for carrying twins I think I read I can gain 35-45 pounds so hopefully I only gain about 8 more pounds, but a pound a week would be 9 more pounds. What's a pound anyways? I actually gained most my weight in the first trimester which worried me because I kept reading you shouldn't gain any or only 2-4lbs the first trimester so that really stressed me out in the beginning because I had just lost 80lbs prior to getting pregnant and I didn't want to loose all the hard work I had put in. So far it has all evened out so if you are pregnant just eat healthy, it's ok to splurge once in a while to cure that craving, but try to eat healthy and stay somewhat active. I haven't been working out lately but I was up until a few weeks ago and now I try to still go on short walks or take my kids to the park. Something so that I'm not sitting on my butt all day. But I'm not gonna lie, I like a good nap!!  Till next time, thanks for reading!

28 weeks

So I passed my 1 hour glucose tolerance test. First time of 5 pregnancies I've ever passed the 1 hour!! I chalk it up to having lost weight prior to getting pregnant and eating healthier with this pregnancy. I'm getting so big and I still have at least 10 weeks to go and these are the BIG week where the babies will gain all their weight. Time to get uncomfortable!
Excited to meet S this week he'll be down for a couple of days hopefully he will be able to fell them wiggling around in there. I'm sure he will they move all the time!
Thinking about D day a lot. Of coarse with twins I'm at high risk for a c-section but I have one of the best OB's in town so I'm sure she'll get the babies and I through it all 3 healthy and happy. And of coarse my LDR team they are awesome too!  Right now baby A is vertex (head down) and B is breech (butt first).
  I was just talking to my grandma the other day about possibly having to deliver one breech and she told me her birth story, which surprisingly enough, I'd never heard before! Her first born was breech and she endured 18 hours of labor and finally delivered a breech baby!  That would never happen today! We never let first time moms deliver breech and rarely do they let anyone else deliver breech. So I figure if my grandma can do it with her first I can deliver a breech twin!!
I'm almost done still can't wait to meet the little guys? Do they look alike? I know they're not identical, but they are brothers so I wonder how similar they are and how much they look like their dad?  It will be fun to see their faces!  10 weeks

27 weeks

I know I'm a slacker. 4 weeks from my last post but I'm tired a lot and it's summer and my kids are demanding my constant attention but my body demands my beds attention. Carrying twins is super exhausting and it's hot out which makes me feel more tired. The headaches continue and round ligament pain.  They move almost constantly which is cool to know they're doing ok in there and my kids love to feel them and see them moving in my belly.
I Had my glucose test on Thursday, I almost always fail my 1 hour and have to take the 3 hour so we'll see. Hopefully since I had lost weight prior to this pregnancy I'll pass this time. And I'm eating better too so maybe I'll get lucky. Speaking of weight, I thus far have gained 35lbs. From what I've read for twins this is pretty good I gained a lot in my first trimester so I was really worried in the beginning that I was gonna gain everything is lost plus some with this pregnancy so I was really trying to be cautious with what I ate, but was so hungry all the time. Now it's slightly easier I don't feel ravenous like I did in the beginning but now it's harder to get exercise because the baby bump weight is getting a little out of hand. Lol.
Delivery is gonna be here before I know it, I have an awesome OB whom I trust considerably, but there's only so much she can control so I just have to hope and pray these babies cooperate and are positioned appropriately for a vaginal delivery.
I saw a picture on Facebook of two men holding their newborn baby skin to skin and I got little butterflies in my stomach. So excited for them to meet their babies. I am glad to wait till the little bugger are big and healthy though. Until then I can have dreams about them getting to meet them and it'll be nice when it's all over too to have my body back for now though, the little body snatchers can borrow it for a while longer.  Till next time!