So, 35 weeks....TIRED! Need I say more? I was measuring 41 weeks at my appointment this week. The week before I was at 39. Doesn't seem quite fair to gain 2 weeks in 1 week, but I guess there are 2 babies in there and they seem to want sweet things like ice cream! That might have something to do with the weather also since it's been pretty hot these last couple of weeks. I really should plan this surrogacy thing a little better. IF there's a next time it'll be a winter delivery. :)
The swelling is kicking in full force this week no matter how much I elevate my legs they swell! I've definitely seen worse being a nurse and all, and I kinda like the swelling because in my head it's weight that's gonna just fall off after delivery. You don't have to workout to get rid of fluid! Of coarse I'll still have to workout but those pounds will be easy to loose. As of this morning I'm up 50lbs :( this is normal weight gain for a twin pregnancy but still saddens me a little I think that's why I'm so happy about the fluid retention.
Induction day is set for the 21st if I make it that far? Kinda torn about it because I want things to start on their own, but I want my IP's and my Dr to all be there when it happens. The obvious solution to everyone being there is an induction. Maybe I'll get lucky and go into labor on my induction day?!?! That's only 3 weeks from today I can't believe it. 3 weeks that's nothing! That's only like 9 more work days for me. I can do 9 more days of work right? I guess time will tell.
Lots of contractions this week. They seem to be more frequent and a little stronger, but still not regular. I'm interested to see what my cervix is doing, but also don't want to irritate it by checking it. So I'll be patient and wait.
Right now my bed and my bathtub are my best friends I love them they make me super happy! And my husband and my kids are also very helpful. My son made me Mac and cheese the other day for dinner and brought it to me while I was in the bathtub. He's so good to me, and my husband has been doing a lot of cooking lately so I don't have to which is awesome. I think I'll keep them all, at least till this pregnancy is over! Lol
I guess that's all for now till next week! :)
Sunday, August 31, 2014
Sunday, August 24, 2014
34 weeks!!!
34 weeks, yay!!! With twins this is quite an accomplishment. And I'm still not terribly miserable (just a little miserable) I think if I had to stress out about cribs, and feeding them and taking care of them it would be more stressful maybe, but I don't have to worry about any of that. I don't even get the "nesting" that women get towards the end of their pregnancies with my surrogacies. I kinda wish I did though because my house could use a little "nesting" behaviour! Instead I'm in lay around and relax mode, hoping to keep these babies in at least until their dad gets here in a few weeks. Not much I can do if they decide to come early, but I sure can do as little as possible to try not to bring it on. I am still working full time, but again my charge nurses take pretty good care of me, I think mostly because they don't wanna be down a nurse and up a patient! Kinda funny if you think of it like that. My feet are starting to swell, and I also get blurry vision when I'm pregnant off and on-No I'm not pre-eclamptic, I have model blood pressure and am planning to keep it that way! (not that I can really plan that)
While 34 weeks is awesome I sure hope to get to at least 36 or 37 weeks that would make for much healthier babies. And surprisingly the closer I get to delivery the less nervous I get. You would think it would be opposite, but I've had so many contractions some smart pretty good, but are still very sporadic and I just think oh yea, these are what those early labor contractions feel like it's only the active labor ones that really hurt, and those, for me, don't usually last very long. My main concern would be post partum hemorrhage, being my 5th delivery and a multiple delivery I'm at a higher risk for hemorrhage. I have the best OB in town, and the best LDR nurses too, so I'll be very well taken care of!
While 34 weeks is awesome I sure hope to get to at least 36 or 37 weeks that would make for much healthier babies. And surprisingly the closer I get to delivery the less nervous I get. You would think it would be opposite, but I've had so many contractions some smart pretty good, but are still very sporadic and I just think oh yea, these are what those early labor contractions feel like it's only the active labor ones that really hurt, and those, for me, don't usually last very long. My main concern would be post partum hemorrhage, being my 5th delivery and a multiple delivery I'm at a higher risk for hemorrhage. I have the best OB in town, and the best LDR nurses too, so I'll be very well taken care of!
Monday, August 18, 2014
33 weeks
So all the legal stuff appears to be taken care of so my IP's will be the power of attorneys until they have the legal adoption stuff taken care of. Which is great because if they were born premature there would be medical decisions to be made for their well being. I would, of coarse, honor whatever they wanted anyways, but I'm sure this just gives them peace of mind. And apparently their plane tickets are booked for a few weeks from now and the apartment is also booked , so it is feeling more real I'm sure for them. As for me, I'm ready to have my body back! I want the babies to be term and healthy, but am so ready to get back to the gym and be normal again!
The "contractions" continue and my pelvis is doing its usual, as I say "falling apart" thing. For those of you who don't know, when your pregnant your body produces a hormone that is rightly named relaxin that "relaxes" all your joints to help your pelvis open more for childbirth. Well mine, I feel, goes a little overboard and my pelvic bones pop and click and move constantly. Although I do feel like it's better with this pregnancy which I again attribute to having lost so much weight prior to getting pregnant. The back pain isn't too bad, my worst days are, of coarse, work days when I'm up moving so much. I do think I might be more emotional with this pregnancy, my poor husband, I'm not sure that he'll ever let me be a surrogate again if I keep acting like I am! He's a trooper though!
That's a question I get frequently, do you think you'll do it again? I feel like at this point I would, but there's still at least 5 weeks to go and a delivery to accomplish before deciding. With every pregnancy the risks go up for complications during pregnancy and at delivery. I don't want to be foolish and end up with lifelong problems or even possibly not surviving a delivery and leaving my family without a mom so if I did do it again it would probably be my last time. Unless, this is my last time! I guess only time will tell.
The babies are still moving like crazy! I'm feeling sorry for my poor stretched out uterus it really is an amazing organ to be able to provide everything for these little guys that they need to thrive. It can get so big and then shrink so small. I don't care what you men say, we are lucky to be able to be pregnant! It is truly a miracle and I am glad that through all the aches and pains and annoyances that pregnancy brings we can accomplish such an amazing feat! Helping to create life, and I feel like it makes it more wondrous when I can do it for someone else. I am truly blessed!
The "contractions" continue and my pelvis is doing its usual, as I say "falling apart" thing. For those of you who don't know, when your pregnant your body produces a hormone that is rightly named relaxin that "relaxes" all your joints to help your pelvis open more for childbirth. Well mine, I feel, goes a little overboard and my pelvic bones pop and click and move constantly. Although I do feel like it's better with this pregnancy which I again attribute to having lost so much weight prior to getting pregnant. The back pain isn't too bad, my worst days are, of coarse, work days when I'm up moving so much. I do think I might be more emotional with this pregnancy, my poor husband, I'm not sure that he'll ever let me be a surrogate again if I keep acting like I am! He's a trooper though!
That's a question I get frequently, do you think you'll do it again? I feel like at this point I would, but there's still at least 5 weeks to go and a delivery to accomplish before deciding. With every pregnancy the risks go up for complications during pregnancy and at delivery. I don't want to be foolish and end up with lifelong problems or even possibly not surviving a delivery and leaving my family without a mom so if I did do it again it would probably be my last time. Unless, this is my last time! I guess only time will tell.
The babies are still moving like crazy! I'm feeling sorry for my poor stretched out uterus it really is an amazing organ to be able to provide everything for these little guys that they need to thrive. It can get so big and then shrink so small. I don't care what you men say, we are lucky to be able to be pregnant! It is truly a miracle and I am glad that through all the aches and pains and annoyances that pregnancy brings we can accomplish such an amazing feat! Helping to create life, and I feel like it makes it more wondrous when I can do it for someone else. I am truly blessed!
Thursday, August 7, 2014
31 weeks
Had an appointment today with my OB, I'm measuring 37cm at 31 weeks, so essentially my uterus is the size of a 37 week singleton pregnancy which is normal, but gonna start getting really uncomfortable probably from here on out! Also had a sono which is routine in twin pregnancy to make sure they're both growing equally and they are. A is about 3lbs 14oz and B is about 3lbs 12oz. That's almost 8 pounds of baby already! Not to mention 2 placentas and 2 bags of water! No wonder my belly's getting so heavy. 7 more weeks, 7more weeks, 7 more weeks. And that's ok I want healthy babies I don't want them to have to spend any time in the NICU. I want them to go home with their daddy's happy and healthy!
Work is definitely getting harder though but I'm really hoping to push through and tough it out till I deliver. I've always worked up till delivery with all my pregnancies and I know this ones different, but I think I can do it. I know my charge nurses try their best to take it easy on me, but Sometimes, in LDR there's no such thing as taking it easy on anyone! If you can't do the job get out of the way because an emergency in LDR isn't a "shuffle your feet" kinda emergency. We have 2 lives on the line and we want both to be safe and healthy in the end! So we run and we even have to sometimes push people out of the way to keep the patient safe! We leave our hands in vaginas for what seems like forever and lie under a surgical drape until were told to move. (Which by the way is really difficult pregnant). We turn patients who are sometimes (a lot of times) morbidly obese who can't move because they are numb from their epidurals. A lot of time in a hurry because heart tones are down and while calling the dr on the phone and turning off medicine and putting on oxygen all somehow at the same time! It's a lot of work when you're not pregnant, but a lot more when you are! But again worth every minute to be there when someone gets to meet their little miracle they've been waiting so long for! Sometimes years, and sometimes during those years with very little hope that it would ever actually happen for them, but there he/she is in their arms crying and pink and perfect and it was all worth it! And that's why I do what I do, not just the labor and delivery nurse, but the surrogacy! Why should these couples who have tried so desperately for so long, or who can't conceive because they are both men be denied such a basic right as being a parent? I see people come in pregnant who don't care about the life growing inside of them, they smoke, drink, do drugs and sometimes even call their baby names because that's how little they care about it. It's not fair for those who try for years and get nothing. Who just want a baby they don't care even if it's the woman's who did meth her whole pregnancy, they just want to be a parent and to give their love to that child who otherwise wouldn't get it! That's why surrogacy is important to me and adoption for that matter, and I'm so glad that my mind and body are able to provide this surrogacy for these men, and maybe in the future another couple?? Till next time. :)
Work is definitely getting harder though but I'm really hoping to push through and tough it out till I deliver. I've always worked up till delivery with all my pregnancies and I know this ones different, but I think I can do it. I know my charge nurses try their best to take it easy on me, but Sometimes, in LDR there's no such thing as taking it easy on anyone! If you can't do the job get out of the way because an emergency in LDR isn't a "shuffle your feet" kinda emergency. We have 2 lives on the line and we want both to be safe and healthy in the end! So we run and we even have to sometimes push people out of the way to keep the patient safe! We leave our hands in vaginas for what seems like forever and lie under a surgical drape until were told to move. (Which by the way is really difficult pregnant). We turn patients who are sometimes (a lot of times) morbidly obese who can't move because they are numb from their epidurals. A lot of time in a hurry because heart tones are down and while calling the dr on the phone and turning off medicine and putting on oxygen all somehow at the same time! It's a lot of work when you're not pregnant, but a lot more when you are! But again worth every minute to be there when someone gets to meet their little miracle they've been waiting so long for! Sometimes years, and sometimes during those years with very little hope that it would ever actually happen for them, but there he/she is in their arms crying and pink and perfect and it was all worth it! And that's why I do what I do, not just the labor and delivery nurse, but the surrogacy! Why should these couples who have tried so desperately for so long, or who can't conceive because they are both men be denied such a basic right as being a parent? I see people come in pregnant who don't care about the life growing inside of them, they smoke, drink, do drugs and sometimes even call their baby names because that's how little they care about it. It's not fair for those who try for years and get nothing. Who just want a baby they don't care even if it's the woman's who did meth her whole pregnancy, they just want to be a parent and to give their love to that child who otherwise wouldn't get it! That's why surrogacy is important to me and adoption for that matter, and I'm so glad that my mind and body are able to provide this surrogacy for these men, and maybe in the future another couple?? Till next time. :)
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