Babies and beds

We are having two boys and are so excited!! They are both healthy and growing according to schedule. I am relieved that I do not have to learn how to French braid hair. On another note, our new bedroom set, including king-sized bed, was delivered today. Woohoo-so excited to go to bed tonight.

Blue or Pink

We find out in two days what the babies are! I am so excited that I can barely stand it. Maybe once we know what the babies are, we will have more luck coming up with names so we can stop calling them Baby A and Baby B.

It is hard to believe that I am already halfway through this pregnancy. With the exception of being in the hospital twice in the last two weeks, this has seemed pretty easy. No morning sickness, no bitchiness, no nausea, no swelling. Hopefully it continues this way.

Save the date cards were mailed last week for the baby shower. Tania did a fantastic job on them! Now I am rambling. My brain is feeling a little scrambled right now. I am just so excited to find out what the babies are!

Flutters and Dreams

I felt the babies for the first time today! There have been a few times in the last few weeks when I wondered if what I was feeling was a baby moving, but today there was no mistaking it. The only way I can explain it is that it felt like a wave rolling. It started on the right side and moved to the center. Then about a half hour later, I felt it in the center again. I am not sure if I did any work for the rest of the day; I just wanted to feel them again.

Last night I had one of those nights where it feels as if you are having the same dream all night long and no matter how many times you wake up, it just continues every time you go back to sleep. In each dream, I was having an ultrasound to find out the babies sexes and just as the doctor would say "Baby A is a....." I would wake up. This happened six or seven times last night and I woke up so frustrated. I do believe that if I had found out in my dream what the babies sexes are, it would have been accurate. Before we knew we were pregnant, I started having pregnancy dreams and then before we knew we were having twins, i started having twin dreams. I guess we will just have to wait for our next appointment on July 8th.

Our babies

Today I got to see and hear the babies again! They were all over the place, doing somersaults and cartwheels. I still can't believe that they look so much like babies and are still so tiny! I did get reprimanded for NOT GAINING ENOUGH WEIGHT. Everything I have read says that the ideal weight gain in the first trimester for twins is four pounds and since I have gained three and a half, I thought I was doing really well. The doctor actually said "you can't gain enough weight with twins. You better start packing on the pounds". I absolutely do not plan to pack on the pounds, but I can't even figure out how or when I could eat more food. I already feel like I am eating all the time, all day long. Next appointment is in five weeks and we will get to find out what they are!!

Nerves

Today I am 12 weeks pregnant! About a week and a half ago, I had my first appointment with the new doctor. I told her how nervous I have been that I was going to get bad news that day so she said she would check for heartbeats. Sure enough-they were both there loud and clear! I cried almost as much as the day we found out it was twins.

Now I am back to being nervous again. I have not had any serious pregnancy symptoms and it makes me nervous. No nausea, no morning sickness, no headaches. Everything I have read says that the absence of symptoms is not an indication that it will not be a healthy pregnancy, but it is so hard to remember that when you just don't feel pregnant.

For the last five days, I have had some pretty bad cramping. The doctor said not to worry unless I start bleeding which I have not. I weighed myself this morning and have lost 1.5 pounds which just made me more nervous. Once again, I am nervous that at the next appointment, they will give us bad news.

We are almost out of the first trimester and shouldn't have to worry about miscarriage anymore. I just want to feel pregnant!!

Next appointment is June 3.

Happier news

We are having two babies!

Happy news

We are having a baby!!!