Pregnancy Update...

I went to the drs today. All is well. The baby girl (baby A) is measuring on schedule. The baby boy (baby B) is measuring 10 days bigger than the 'due' date. However, the dr. said that is totally fine and doesn't mean much. He will probably level out like the girl has so far.

My ob-gyn said that they will induce me around 37 weeks, if I don't go on my own sooner, which I hope I do not for the sake of the babies. So if we go by that plan, they will be born sometime between the last weekend in May and the first weekend in June. I should have about 14 weeks left.

Please pray that they are either both head down by 37 weeks, or that the baby boy moves to the bottom and is head down. Since he is bigger, if he's at the bottom and is head down, it doesn't matter if baby girl is head down or breech, they'll just pull her out regardless if necessary.

If it's not one of those two scenarios, I will have to have a c-section.

It's official...

It's official...

I'm the heaviest I've ever been in my life.

I am almost 23 weeks and so that leaves 17 weeks to go. I'm sure I'll go a little early, but that is still several months left regardless.

Let's hope nursing two babies helps take this weight off...otherwise Jason will be married to a fat girl.

The Appointment...

So, let me paint you a little picture...

We're in the ultrasound room, I'm on the table, covered in warm goo and Jason is in the chair beside the table. The technician knows that we want to know the genders, but she has to measure every little thing because it's a level II ultrasound.

The tech gets to the sex of baby A (the one lowest)and announces, "It's a girl!".

Silence.

No response from Jason. He immediately grabs his phone and texts Karl.

Jason says he's excited, ya-da ya-da...

About 15 minutes later the technician starts on baby B.

She announces, "It's a boy!"

Jason jumps out of his chair, "Woo-Hoo!"

Now, on this one, I don't have to 'ask' if he's excited. It's pretty clear, don't you think?

He claims that he wanted another boy for Jackson's sake. I originally wanted two of the same for the sake of planning, bedrooms, etc... because I'm a planner, but honestly, I have to say I'm very excited that we are having one of each. The truth is that the Lord knows best and I'm excited with whatever he wants to give us. He knows our future.

The children are very excited because they wanted one of each; one for Jackson and one for them.

The babies are growing well and everything looks great. The boy baby is measuring 18 wk 2 days and the girl baby is measuring 17 wks 5 days. I'm exactly 17 weeks today. I'm glad they are measuring bigger, rather than smaller. Of course, I feel like I'm 8 months pregnant and I'm only 4 months, but it's all worth it.

Tuesday's the Big Day!

We have an appointment on Tuesday at 2 pm to have our Level II Ultrasound. I don't know what a Level II Ultrasound is, but I know I have to have it because I'm Advanced Maternal Age (AMA)and because we're having twins.

I wonder what level the ultrasound would have to be if Sarah (Abraham's wife) came in for her prenatal visits at her age. I think she was like 80 or something.

OB Appointment

The whole family went to my OB appointment yesterday because I was going to have an ultrasound. Since Jason missed the first one that knocked my socks off, he wanted to come see the babies.

Even though it's only been three weeks, the babies look totally different. No longer do they resemble lima beans. They are little babies which were moving all around to entertain the children. Jackson told me yesterday that the babies actually looked like turtles in the first set of ultrasound pictures from three weeks ago, but now they look like babies.

They measured the babies from crown to rump and both of them are measuring about a week bigger. I'm 12 weeks today, but yesterday they were measuring 12 w 6 days. I hope they continue down that path, for their sake, not mine.

We will have another ultrasound in about 6-8 weeks to find out the genders.

I cleaned...

I'm definitely feeling better... I actually cleaned the downstairs of my house. Jason has been doing this for the last couple of weeks, which has been really wonderful. Maybe I should have faked it for a few more weeks... hmm-hmm...

I wanted to clean the downstairs because Jason and the children are going to put up the Christmas tree tomorrow. Jason likes things to be in order and clean when he does stuff like that and considering I'm going Christmas shopping all day, it's the least I could do.

However, I will say that Christmas shopping is work too. However, since I will be alone, I will happily 'work' at shopping.

I might have turned a corner...

Today, I actually felt good all day... I might have turned a corner in this pregnancy thing...

Funny thing is that I just spoke with my good friend Amanda (who has ~4 month old twins) and she said that I should be feeling better in the next two weeks. I was looking forward to that, but today was a nice surprise.

I know with my other pregnancies, I felt better by 12 weeks, but I never felt as badly as I have felt this time around, so I didn't know when this was going to improve.