Weights

Just a quick update about the little ones!

We had an ultrasound yesterday. Things are still looking great... B had the hiccups! Very cute. :)

Anyways... some weights.

Baby A weighed in at 2 pounds 5 ounces.

Baby B weighed in at 2 pounds 6 ounces.

Every measurement was above and beyond 26w2d. :) So they're looking good and we're happy.

Keep it up little guys... we're proud of you!

And here's a little chart of averages for you to compare to...

(Now that I see this, I wish I knew the lengths!)

26 weeks	14.02 inches	1.68 pound	35.6 cm	760 grams
27 weeks	14.41 inches	1.93 pound	36.6 cm	875 grams
28 weeks	14.80 inches	2.22 pounds	37.6 cm	1005 grams
29 weeks	15.2 inches	2.54 pounds	38.6 cm	1153 grams
30 weeks	15.71 inches	2.91 pounds	39.9 cm	1319 grams
31 weeks	16.18 inches	3.31 pounds	41.1 cm	1502 grams
32 weeks	16.69 inches	3.75 pounds	42.4 cm	1702 grams
33 weeks	17.20 inches	4.23 pounds	43.7 cm	1918 grams
34 weeks	17.72 inches	4.73 pounds	45 cm	2146 grams
35 weeks	18.19 inches	5.25 pounds	46.2 cm	2383 grams
36 weeks	18.66 inches	5.78 pounds	47.4 cm	2622 grams
37 weeks	19.13 inches	6.30 pounds	48.6 cm	2859 grams
38 weeks	19.61 inches	6.80 pounds	49.8 cm	3083 grams
39 weeks	19.96 inches	7.25 pounds	50.7 cm	3288 grams
40 weeks	20.16 inches	7.63 pounds	51.2 cm	3462 grams

26w2d

How far along? 26 weeks 2 days

Total weight gain/loss: Today I weighed in at less than 20 lbs gained.  I may have lost some being on bedrest the past 3 weeks.

Maternity clothes? Maternity pjs

Stretch marks? Yes... and my parents bought me coco butter to slather all over them.  :)

Sleep: Some nights are better than others!

Best moment this week: Last week was a very uneventful week which was nice.

Movement: They love to move.  They spend their time trying to kick off the monitor every day.  That's when they go crazzzy.

Food cravings: Coffee ice cream.  Yum!

Gender: 2 boys

Labor Signs: Occasional contractions that I have been told are fine.  They still make me nervous though.

Belly Button in or out? In-between-ie

What I miss: Being self-sufficient.

What I am looking forward to: Another great ultrasound and more uneventful weeks.  July 25 makes 28 weeks!

Weekly Wisdom: Enjoy every minute.

Milestones: 26 weeks... under 100 days.  :)

A few purchases...

So... last night Johnny made our first baby purchases.  :)  I'm a little nervous to be making them... simply because things are so precarious, but we had a ton of reward points, there was a 20% reward point saving sale, and they had the design I love.  (Melbourne... ahhh... Australia... :))  So... here is what we are waiting for!

I'll do my survey thing later and all that good stuff...

1st... and probably totally impractical, we bought 2 Melbourne Travel Systems.  This was we have 2 single strollers (incase we ever separate the twins between grandparents they can each have a stroller) that come with the car seats and bases.  We are also getting the double stroller, but it doesn't come with the car seats.

Number 2... we got the Melbourne Pack N Play with newborn napper system.  Contrary to Johnny's plans, we are going to use this as the bassinet.

Lastly... we have a swing.  We only got one because we also plan on getting a bouncy seat.  

Who knows!

It's so stressful to not know exactly what's going on.

For the past 4 or 5 days the monitoring sessions have showed zero contractions.  Yay.  But every now and then, I feel my belly and it feels HARD.  So I mentioned this to the doctor, nurse, and resident.  No one seems worried.  I don't FEEL it getting hard, I just happen to poke myself at the right time.  But it's still worrying me... like I'm having contractions that I can't prove and, thus, can't be treated.  Yesterday I went so far as to be hooked up to the toco for an extra session just to prove that I wasn't having contractions and it came back completely clean.  So... do I just accept that these don't matter or that they're Braxton Hicks?  Either way, I'm nervous as all heck.  And it doesn't help that I have lots of ligament pain that also distracts me at times.

Oh well.  On another note, today is 26w1d.  Tomorrow will mark 3 weeks of bed rest.  I know this sounds crazzzy, but it has gone FAST.   I've developed a nice little routine that keeps me occupied and I have my eye on the prize.  :)

But here's a normal day... :)

6am: Resident comes in, asks the usual questions, does a little poking leaves.

6-7am: Back to sleeeeep

7am: Nurse comes in for blood pressure and nifedapin

7-8am: Back to sleep

8am: Order breakfast

8-8:45am: Do nothing

8:45-9am: Eat

9-11am: Watch bad TLC shows

11am-12pm: Vitals, monitoring

12-1pm: More bad TLC

1pm: Order lunch

1-1:45pm: Wordsearch or some other mindless drudgery

1:45-2pm: Lunch

2pm: Vitamin and vitals

2-3pm: Lalalalala

3pm: Blood pressure, nifedapin

3-5pm: Nap

5-8:30pm: Johnny's here!!!!  Dinner and shower

8:30-11pm: More mindless TV

11pm: Vitals, nifedapin

11pm-12:30am: Telling myself to go to sleep, but still wasting time

12:30-6am: Let's sleep.  And pee about 25 times.

Th end.

Bassinet? Why?

This is my fabulous husband's solution to buying a bassinet for the babies.  (He would rather spend the money on an HD Video Camera to film the babies)

Take 1 rectangular, fold up card table.  

Place two cardboard boxes on the top.

Place a few blankets in each cardboard box.

Place table and boxes next to bed.

Viola!  You've got yourself a bassinet!

Please keep in mind that he swore that he was serious.  And, even now, he's still not sure why this wouldn't work.

99 Days Left!

Hello world.  It's just past 6:30 and, yes, I'm up.  Why you ask?  Because of the most annoying nurse ever.  I should point out that I've been EXTREMELY lucky with my nurses.  Usually I like them a lot... and if not, they're not here too long, so it's okay.  This one... lucky for me (her?) she's only here 11pm to 7am today.  Hopefully I don't see her again.

Anyways... I wake up with at start at 6:15am to her just starrrring at me.  In the dark I see her outline and she's just watching.  She says, "Oh, you looked like it was a good dream... so I didn't want to bother you."  (Side note: It was a good dream.  I can't remember what it was about anymore, but it was one of those dreams that kind of takes you all night to get through...)   So once I'm groggily awake she proceeds to turn on the overhead lights of death.  (I have never seen lights so bright!)  Then she proceeds to go through every vital, play what seems like the piano on my belly, takes off my compression boots to bend my feet, and listen to the babies on the doppler (which took a good 10 minutes because she didn't know where to find them) before saying "Ooops.  I guess they usually check your vitals when the nurses do their rounds at 9??  Oh well, it was fun... and I'm too early for your nifetapin.  I'll be back at 7 to give that to you."

Ugh bug.   So basically the crazy lady woke me up for no reason!  Or, rather, REALLY woke me up for no reason.

In other news.  Yesterday I had 2 contractions during monitoring.  I think I felt them... but I don't know.  I was watching the screen and the numbers and as the numbers started climbing I got really anxious and that's when I thought I felt them.  So... I can't figure if I really felt them, if I only thought I felt them, or even if I made them worse because I had a mini-personal freakout each time it happened?  So then they did a second round of monitoring in the PM and I didn't look at the numbers at all... and I had zero contractions.  So I can't say that I did officially feel them or not.  Either way, they weren't anything really notable.  No doctors were called in, no new orders sent... so I'm hoping it's not a big deal.  

The other day a doctor came in to discuss with me how I want to deliver these babies when the time comes.  As we've said all along... I just want to do what I'm told and what is best for the babies.  C-Section, natural... it really doesn't matter to me as long as I have two healthy babies.  So she went into detail.  Pre-30 weeks I don't have a choice... it would be C-Section.  The only scary part?  Pre-30 weeks they have to make the Section incision in a different place than usual due to size.  This place carries with it it's own complications.  Additionally... if (when) we had kids in the future, I could ONLY ever have a C-Section and throughout the pregnancy I'd be at a higher risk for uterine rupture.  Scary.  

Lastly, I've been dying to type this for ages.  We are officially at 99 days to go!  I know we most likely won't make it that far, but it's a nice milestone to check off.

Let's make sleep even harder!

As if it wasn't already hard enough for me to sleep (I think it was past 2am when I finally drifted off last night) the doctors in their infinite wisdom have decided to put compression boots on me.  Annoying?  Yes.  Painful?  No.  Odd enough to make it impossible to sleep?  Absolutely.  The most annoying part?  Apparently every time I get up to use the bathroom I'm going to have to be re-hooked up by the nurses.  And I go to the bathroom a lot... part of the joy of drinking ridiculous amounts of water. 

Oh well... just another thing for the little guys.