And they are doing great!
Baby A is 1 and a half pounds, and Baby B is 1 pound 5 oz, so Baby A only weighs 3 oz more than Baby B, which is not significant. They are on target for singletons, which is good news. Hopefully they will continue to gain weight so well! The peri said everything was going along beautifully, which gives me a BIG sigh of relief. Also, we got clarification on the cord insertion of Baby B - it is ECCENTRIC and not marginal, which is much better and should not cause any problems. Baby A's placenta is still low BUT it is moving up, and they are both transverse at the moment, which means I have about a 50/50 chance of having a c-section, and still may be able to do a natural birth!
I pre-registered admission for the hospital today, and we need to pick a pediatrician soon actually, before 28 weeks was recommended. I can't believe how quickly everything is happening.
We were told not to air travel, so no babymoon! I would have loved a weekend in Palm Beach, but that's ok, we'll just try to go to a local spa or something.
I got one pic of Baby B's cute head which I will scan in and post later :)
Friday, March 14, 2008
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
23w2d
Thank you for everyone's relaxation advice. I think I've come a long way in the past week or so from following your suggestions. I have an OB appt tomorrow and a peri appt to check growth on Friday, so we'll see how it all goes. Hoping for everything to be uneventful of course.
Here are some belly shots from today (a couple from the front this time):
Yes, I'm wearing a bikini in one! Sorry if it's gross. I've never been so LARGE everywhere before. Goodbye, stick legs and skinny arms!
UPDATE: Went to the OB today and everything was normal! BP, urine, and my b/w all came back great - low homocysteine and normal thyroid. I am SO relieved! Tomorrow is the peri, so I am just hoping they gained a good amount of weight and do not have too much of a variance between them. I have the 1 hour GTT on 4/9, so we'll see how that goes.
Also, I should tell you that weird scar above my belly button is from when I took out my infected navel ring about 8 years ago. It left that scar which I am pretty sure will turn into a stretch mark as my tummy expands.
Here are some belly shots from today (a couple from the front this time):
Yes, I'm wearing a bikini in one! Sorry if it's gross. I've never been so LARGE everywhere before. Goodbye, stick legs and skinny arms!
UPDATE: Went to the OB today and everything was normal! BP, urine, and my b/w all came back great - low homocysteine and normal thyroid. I am SO relieved! Tomorrow is the peri, so I am just hoping they gained a good amount of weight and do not have too much of a variance between them. I have the 1 hour GTT on 4/9, so we'll see how that goes.
Also, I should tell you that weird scar above my belly button is from when I took out my infected navel ring about 8 years ago. It left that scar which I am pretty sure will turn into a stretch mark as my tummy expands.
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
22w1d
Belly shot:
For a little perspective, here is a pre-pregnancy photo:
Please excuse that I never show my face. I want to maintain some level of privacy given the extremely personal nature of this blog.
In other news, I sliced my finger opened this past weekend, had to rush to get stitches and found out they couldn't do it because of the way it was cute. I ended up having an anxiety attack over the fact that I may have needed stitches and a tetanus shot. They took my bp in the midst of this and it was higher than usual so of course I FREAKED out even more, and my anxiety rose all weekend. I got myself in a bad situation when I started checking my bp constantly, getting so anxious before I did it each time and winding up with not only high readings but ridiculously high pulse rates over 145. DH made me do some relaxation and try again, and I always ended up with normal readings after that. Not being satisfied with that, I paged my OB who said, of COURSE your bp will be higher in an situation like that, so calm down. Unless it is consistently high, she is not worried.
Since I am prone to anxiety and OCD, I am definitely worried my ability to make myself crazy. Hopefully I can keep this under control as I realize it can and will lead to problems and I am only making my situation worse.
If anyone has advice on how to control anxiety without medication, I would appreciate it. Keep it mind I am not able to do yoga or work out because of the low lying placenta of Baby A, so I am somewhat limited in options!
For a little perspective, here is a pre-pregnancy photo:
Please excuse that I never show my face. I want to maintain some level of privacy given the extremely personal nature of this blog.
In other news, I sliced my finger opened this past weekend, had to rush to get stitches and found out they couldn't do it because of the way it was cute. I ended up having an anxiety attack over the fact that I may have needed stitches and a tetanus shot. They took my bp in the midst of this and it was higher than usual so of course I FREAKED out even more, and my anxiety rose all weekend. I got myself in a bad situation when I started checking my bp constantly, getting so anxious before I did it each time and winding up with not only high readings but ridiculously high pulse rates over 145. DH made me do some relaxation and try again, and I always ended up with normal readings after that. Not being satisfied with that, I paged my OB who said, of COURSE your bp will be higher in an situation like that, so calm down. Unless it is consistently high, she is not worried.
Since I am prone to anxiety and OCD, I am definitely worried my ability to make myself crazy. Hopefully I can keep this under control as I realize it can and will lead to problems and I am only making my situation worse.
If anyone has advice on how to control anxiety without medication, I would appreciate it. Keep it mind I am not able to do yoga or work out because of the low lying placenta of Baby A, so I am somewhat limited in options!
Monday, February 18, 2008
20 weeks!
If I were pregnant with just one baby, we'd be at the halfway point. Since we're having twins, I probably past that point a couple of weeks ago. I've gained about 26 lbs and about 12 inches around on my waist. I'd love to say all of the weight is in my mid section, but even my arms appear to be getting chubby. Oh well! Anything for the babies.
In any case, we had the rest of our anatomy scan on Friday @ 19w4d, and both babies look great. All of their organs look good, their limbs are measuring appropriately, Baby A is 11 oz and Baby B is 10 oz. Their amniotic fluid situation is perfect and I've still got a very long cervix, which is ideal.
Of course, there are a couple of things that we need to keep watch of. Baby A's placenta has not moved up yet. This should still happen as the uterus moves up, especially after 20 weeks. So until then I am on restricted activity. Baby B has an eccentric or marginal umbilical cord insertion. An eccentric insertion is nothing to be concerned about, but if it is marginal, that means it did not implant in the best possible place in the placenta. This hopefully won't cause any problems with growth discordancy, but we'll have to keep monitoring them for their growth to make sure. It's pretty common that one twin outgrows the other, but hopefully not by too much. It's also fairly common for a twin pregnancy to have a cord issue with one or both of the babies. Generally it's a problem at delivery, but since we know about it well in advance we can watch it. However, this is just another reason why I will most likely have a Cesarean delivery.
However, the peri is not too concerned and is keeping me on my regular monitoring schedule for now, so I won't be back there until nearly 24 weeks. Just hoping all goes smoothly until then (fingers crossed!)
Here are a few new belly shots from today:
Finally starting to look pregnant and not just like I had a big lunch!
In any case, we had the rest of our anatomy scan on Friday @ 19w4d, and both babies look great. All of their organs look good, their limbs are measuring appropriately, Baby A is 11 oz and Baby B is 10 oz. Their amniotic fluid situation is perfect and I've still got a very long cervix, which is ideal.
Of course, there are a couple of things that we need to keep watch of. Baby A's placenta has not moved up yet. This should still happen as the uterus moves up, especially after 20 weeks. So until then I am on restricted activity. Baby B has an eccentric or marginal umbilical cord insertion. An eccentric insertion is nothing to be concerned about, but if it is marginal, that means it did not implant in the best possible place in the placenta. This hopefully won't cause any problems with growth discordancy, but we'll have to keep monitoring them for their growth to make sure. It's pretty common that one twin outgrows the other, but hopefully not by too much. It's also fairly common for a twin pregnancy to have a cord issue with one or both of the babies. Generally it's a problem at delivery, but since we know about it well in advance we can watch it. However, this is just another reason why I will most likely have a Cesarean delivery.
However, the peri is not too concerned and is keeping me on my regular monitoring schedule for now, so I won't be back there until nearly 24 weeks. Just hoping all goes smoothly until then (fingers crossed!)
Here are a few new belly shots from today:
Finally starting to look pregnant and not just like I had a big lunch!
Saturday, February 9, 2008
Not much to update
I've been working from home, since I've now had 3 doctors tell me to take some time off and relax. TMI ahead - The good news is I haven't even had a hint of spotting or irregular coloured urine in 8 days!! That, coupled with my scan on Tuesday that revealed my cervix was 4.41, which my OB said "couldn't be any longer", and she saw no signs of PTL. So, my new job is just to relax and keep the girls cooking. I am 18w5d today, so 19w on Monday. Our complete level II sono is this Friday at the peri's. I am a tad nervous but everything has looked so good on our partial scan and through all the first and second trimester screening tests that I am mostly excited to see the babes again and all of their cute little organs and parts.
Other than that, we have friends coming over to visit from the city tomorrow. And, I will attempt to go into work just for Monday only IF I am feeling up to it. My cute hubs will drive me to/from, and hopefully I will remain seated for most of the day. I'm sort of craving human interaction! It's definitely been lacking and limited.
We started to get some baby items, a double stroller and car seats that click in. We were going to go with Peg Perego, but the safety ratings on the Graco seemed so much better, so we decided to go with that. And, it was so much less expensive. I still don't want to get too much just yet.
That's pretty much it. Oh, and it's snowing like crazy here! A nice excuse to stay inside anyway.
Other than that, we have friends coming over to visit from the city tomorrow. And, I will attempt to go into work just for Monday only IF I am feeling up to it. My cute hubs will drive me to/from, and hopefully I will remain seated for most of the day. I'm sort of craving human interaction! It's definitely been lacking and limited.
We started to get some baby items, a double stroller and car seats that click in. We were going to go with Peg Perego, but the safety ratings on the Graco seemed so much better, so we decided to go with that. And, it was so much less expensive. I still don't want to get too much just yet.
That's pretty much it. Oh, and it's snowing like crazy here! A nice excuse to stay inside anyway.
Thursday, January 31, 2008
It's been a really long time
Sorry everyone, but with the holidays and first trimester sickness, and with just how busy I've been at work, it's been hard to update the blog. I have, however, been reading all of your blogs, yet only commenting for those who need some support and are going through rough situations. I think of you often, and wish you all the best.
As for my updates (warning: pregnancy related), here they are:
- I am 17w3d today
- The NT scan went great, and our risk for down's is 1/2700. This is substantially lower than my age group, so we are happy.
- I've gained about 16 pounds, so pretty much on target for what my peri is looking for.
- The partial anatomy scan showed no issues except Twin A has a low lying placenta (but not a previa). The peri expects this will resolve itself as the pregnancy moves along, but I have been put on pelvic rest - no sex or working out. Fine with me!
- I did have an incident on Tuesday where I had a couple of spots of blood drip out when urinating. However, that was it, and I got an emergency u/s which showed the twins were just fine, and my cervix was still very long. OB thinks it is because I have this violent cough which acts up at night, and prescribed me tylenol with codeine, which she said was ok to take at this point. I have also begun to work from home. The 2 hour commute each way is too much for my body to handle I think. The OB was pretty clear that I need to be more careful and slow down.
Evidently I woke up this morning from a sex dream. When I went to the loo, my urine was slightly darker as if it could be tinged with blood, but then that stopped right away. I think the combination of my coughing fit last night coupled with the possible orgasm in my dream triggered some slight possible spotting. So unfair! It's not even my fault if I O in a dream! Anyway, I checked the heartbeats with my doppler, and they were both fine. Stressful!
Oh yeah, and the twins are 2 girls! Dizygotic (fraternal) of course. We are thrilled!
Here are a couple belly shots for y'all:
As for my updates (warning: pregnancy related), here they are:
- I am 17w3d today
- The NT scan went great, and our risk for down's is 1/2700. This is substantially lower than my age group, so we are happy.
- I've gained about 16 pounds, so pretty much on target for what my peri is looking for.
- The partial anatomy scan showed no issues except Twin A has a low lying placenta (but not a previa). The peri expects this will resolve itself as the pregnancy moves along, but I have been put on pelvic rest - no sex or working out. Fine with me!
- I did have an incident on Tuesday where I had a couple of spots of blood drip out when urinating. However, that was it, and I got an emergency u/s which showed the twins were just fine, and my cervix was still very long. OB thinks it is because I have this violent cough which acts up at night, and prescribed me tylenol with codeine, which she said was ok to take at this point. I have also begun to work from home. The 2 hour commute each way is too much for my body to handle I think. The OB was pretty clear that I need to be more careful and slow down.
Evidently I woke up this morning from a sex dream. When I went to the loo, my urine was slightly darker as if it could be tinged with blood, but then that stopped right away. I think the combination of my coughing fit last night coupled with the possible orgasm in my dream triggered some slight possible spotting. So unfair! It's not even my fault if I O in a dream! Anyway, I checked the heartbeats with my doppler, and they were both fine. Stressful!
Oh yeah, and the twins are 2 girls! Dizygotic (fraternal) of course. We are thrilled!
Here are a couple belly shots for y'all:
Friday, December 21, 2007
Sono Pics
I realized that I hadn't posted any ultrasound photos since the first one at 6w1d. Here are Baby A and Baby B (I really have to come up with better names) at 11w2d:
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