Week 26

Yay! So the weeks are moving along nicely and I am steadily getting bigger and bigger. Today was not so fun though. I was sitting at church during sacrament and started to feel the cold sweats, light headed and nausea. I knew what that meant because I have felt it before. I was about to black out. Luckily sacrament was almost over so I asked my Dad to drive me home. I knew that it was because of the weight of the babies pressing down on important arteries and cutting off circulation. All I needed to do to remedy the situation was to lay on my side. As soon as I got home I laid down and I felt better pretty quickly after that. It is defiantly time for me to start taking it easy. I am going to talk to my Dr. about it on Wednesday and see what he has to say.

I am putting myself on modified bed rest as of today. Bed rest bums me out but whenever I do anything to "crazy"...like sit for an hour...I start to pass out. No beuno. Its what is best for the babies and me. Whatever keeps them in longer so they can grow strong and healthy is want I need to do.

Week 25

So I dont have a side shot of my belly this week but I have some good ones from my shower.

You can see how huge my belly is...

 And this is as good of a side shot as I got at the shower.

On the update front, my tummy is rapidly growing it looks and feels like. I can no longer comfortably fit into my maternity jeans that have the full panel. I went out and bought some low rise maternity jeans that would sit below my belly and low and behold, I FIT INTO A SMALLER SIZE! I was so happy. I am actually wearing the size pants I was when I got married. Totally made my day.

Another new thing for me is my feet have started to really swell. After the shower my feet looked like footballs. Also the babies are getting really big and have started really kicking at my ribs. Yesterday I swear one of them popped out (ribs, not a baby) and it was so painful. Luckily it stopped hurting during the night. I can tell that I am losing that battle of staying active. Walking around or being up for more that 20 minutes really is taking a toll on me. It will all be worth it though when I get to hold these two little boys finally.

My Baby Shower

So last Saturday was my baby shower and I have to say...it was pretty dang awesome. We had to have it early because of the possibility of going on bed rest. Plus I am starting to get really uncomfortable and pretty huge so it was just a good time. 

My mom made cupcakes and displayed them beautifully. The theme for the shower was a pond so she made a bunch that looked like sand with rocks, and some that looked like water. I made gum paste lotus blossoms and my sister made the lilly pads. There are also a few frogs hiding in there.

We had a huge turn out. I am guessing around 65 people or so. I couldn't believe it. I really couldn't believe how many presents I got.

My Mom and I decided to keep the games to a minimum and just play one game that would really take everyone paying attention to. So she wanted to play the baby food game...awful game. The way it goes is that everyone of the guests guesses what each of ten baby food jars contains. Then after everyone guesses I get to taste each one and tell you what it is. Baby food is so gross. I feel so bad feeding anyone that. I don't know if I will be able to feed my boys that stuff.

I got so many cute and useful things at my shower. I was really overwhelmed by all that kindness everyone showed me. I cannot wait to use all this stuff on my two babies.

Week 22...They are BOYS!!!

So today I went to my mid pregnancy ultrasound...finally! Dealing with my insurance here has been a pain and that was the reason for it taking so long to get things worked out. Today I wanted to confirm the gender of the twins even though I had been told by my Dr that one defiantly looked like a girl and one was probably a girl. Well, turns out he was WRONG! I am having two boys. As you can see from the pictures above there is a little something extra there between the legs. I am really excited. I called Brett and woke him up with the news. He was so excited. I called the family and let them all know. Everyone is thrilled. Now I just need to re-register.

Catching up

Week 19

 Week 20

 Week 21

I know I have been bad at posting these on here lately...whoops. Thanks to Sharon I have at least been taking the pictures each week. Nothing new really happened prior to this week so not much was missed. This week though is another story. I have been able to feel the babies move for weeks now but no one else has. Yesterday though I was watching TV and I had my hands resting on my belly...where else would they go??? All of a sudden I feel movement. At first I thought it was just me feeling it from the inside and just translating the experience to my hand since it was there. So I decided to press a little harder. Nope, for sure I was able to feel the kick with my hand. I immediately called my sister over to feel it. She was able to feel a kick right away. Later my Mom was able to SEE my belly move and she felt one of them having hiccups! I am so excited. I wish Brett could feel it. Its sad that he isn't here to share this all with me but he is glad that all three of us are safe and sound here.

While I am on the subject of Brett, I just want to publicly say that Brett is the most amazing and supportive husband. He was great through the craziness of my first trimester and put up with all my crying and freak outs. Since we have been apart he calls whenever he can and on weekends we get to chat on a web cam. We even reinstated movie dates (we watch the same movie at the same time while we are on the phone). I don't many guys that would do all that. Even though he is half a world away he makes me feel like I am the most special person in the world. He is going to be an amazing father because he is already an amazing husband.

Week 18

Growing, growing, growing. I went into see my new OB here on Wednesday and I have to say, I am very happy with him. I wasn't quite sure how I would like having a male doctor because I have had females only up to this point. He was great though. He answered all my questions and gave great advice. Things I was worried about he calmly explained to me. He measured my belly and I was already measuring at 30 weeks...I cant wait to see what I will look like at 30 weeks!

So updates for this week are that the babies are kicking a lot more than they have before. They really react to orange juice and jump around a lot anytime I drink it. I am actually down a size from before I was pregnant. I asked the doctor about that and he said nicely, that since I wasn't the smallest girl out there that it was ok if I lost a little weight it wouldn't hurt the babies. As long as I don't go crazy everything will be fine. This week I think I am finally going to graduate into maternity shirts. All my shirts I have been using are not quite long enough anymore. Cravings are not really there for me...other than coke. Oh what I wouldn't give to sit down with a 2 liter of Coke right now. Its more of food aversions that I have been dealing with. Eggs and greasy food make me gag just thinking about them. So far this pregnancy has been great. I can't really complain too much.

Looks Like We're Having...

GIRLS!!!!!

Its not a 100% according to the Dr until the 20 week ultrasound but it looks pretty good from what I can tell. I really thought that they would be girls so it looks like the intuition is kicking in already!


Here is the spine of one of the GIRLS :D

Here is the butt shot. Here little legs are crossed at the moment.

I think this is a view of the arms...

Here is the head and body...

Not sure...

Another leg view...

I love seeing my babies move around, it makes this all so much more real. Now knowing there is a strong possibly that they are girls is getting me even more excited for these babies to come, and I was already super excited. The Dr I went to in Whittier was great. When he measured my fundal height he, he was I was already measuring at 30 weeks! I couldn't believe it...that's huge. But that is to be expected with two babies growing like crazy inside me.

I was able to email Brett and tell him the happy news. He is sooooo thrilled. He is jokingly concerned about being highly out numbered. Brett is going to be a great Dad. I am so excited to hold our babies in August.