In two days I'll be 20 weeks! It seems like it's going by fast now. Greg has been helping me move stuff out of the "new" nursery to make way for babies. Originally we had planned for the smaller of the two spare rooms to be the nursery so before I was pregnant we moved a bunch of stuff out of that room and into the larger room. Now that we have two little babies on the way we have to swap it out. It seems like it takes SO long to do anything anymore. It's such a normal thing for me to just get things done myself and not have to depend on anyone to help me. Well, that's all changed. As easily winded as I get and the inability to pick up heavy objects, it has left this project as being a very slow one. I really want to get it done soon, but I need to be patient.
Greg and I had our "big" ultrasound appointment yesterday. We both have been looking forward to this one for some time now. Greg asked for the day off over a month ago and was super excited about seeing our babies. We showed up at radiology and they handed us this printed, laminated message to read. It pretty much said that Greg was not allowed to join me in the ultrasound room. I questioned it and they said that it would be about an hour before he could come in and join me. We were not happy. In fact, we were really sad. The look on Greg's face just about brought me to tears. It seemed so wrong that he, the daddy, would not be allowed in the room. I went back into the ultrasound room and laid on this table for over an hour. My back was killing me and worse yet, the technician turned the screen away from me! I was not allowed to look at the screen myself. I couldn't believe it. I just laid there trying to keep the tears from rolling down my face. This appointment was NOT going the way we had envisioned it. It's just not fair when you spend so much time looking forward to when you get to see your babies. They're our babies! I'm sure Greg would say this is being a little dramatic again, but it's the way I feel. They should have told us that he wouldn't be able to come in for the majority of the appointment. About the last 10-15 minutes of our appointment she brought Greg back and showed us a few things so that made it a little better.
Our next appointment is August 28th. That is when my doctor will review the report with us. He told us that "no news is good news", so I should hope not to hear from him any sooner than our appointment time. Even though I was unable to see my babies during the appointment, the technician kept saying that baby A (little girl) was not being cooperative and would not stop moving. Hmmm. Are we seeing a pattern there? It made me laugh. The tech seemed frustrated and would huff and puff on occasion. She made me feel like they had behavior problems and that I couldn't control my children. =) She told me a couple of times that I'd have to come back to do the spine pictures because of baby A not cooperating. Luckily, little girl mellowed out some and the tech was able to get the pictures she needed after looking at baby B.
I've had a lot of leg/ankle swelling, which earned me a trip the the emergency room about a week ago. Ugh. That was not fun! The doctor thought that I had a DVT (blood clot). Supposedly, I had every symptom of having one. It was kind of scary for a while, but fortunately, they were able to rule that out and we were able to get home about 2:30 a.m.
My belly seems to have grown quite a bit over the last couple of weeks. When I went in for an appointment, I was measuring at 26-27 weeks (for a singleton pregnancy-- obviously I would be measuring more because of twins even though I'm just at 20 weeks). Dr. Troung said that with anyone this measurement could be + or - 2. I don't look that big, but I definitely notice a difference in it's size. =) I've been taking some pictures all along so I'm hoping to post some pictures of my growing belly in a slide show.
Here are the latest pics. I wish they were clearer than they are, but I guess it works. You can really only see their head and body, and not their legs in these pics. Our little girl is on the bottom and she has her arms up covering her face. I thought that was a really cute picture. Since when is she shy? And baby boy is on top facing the camera. He's so mellow and cooperative (another Greg perhaps?)... my sweet little boy! =)
Greg and I had our "big" ultrasound appointment yesterday. We both have been looking forward to this one for some time now. Greg asked for the day off over a month ago and was super excited about seeing our babies. We showed up at radiology and they handed us this printed, laminated message to read. It pretty much said that Greg was not allowed to join me in the ultrasound room. I questioned it and they said that it would be about an hour before he could come in and join me. We were not happy. In fact, we were really sad. The look on Greg's face just about brought me to tears. It seemed so wrong that he, the daddy, would not be allowed in the room. I went back into the ultrasound room and laid on this table for over an hour. My back was killing me and worse yet, the technician turned the screen away from me! I was not allowed to look at the screen myself. I couldn't believe it. I just laid there trying to keep the tears from rolling down my face. This appointment was NOT going the way we had envisioned it. It's just not fair when you spend so much time looking forward to when you get to see your babies. They're our babies! I'm sure Greg would say this is being a little dramatic again, but it's the way I feel. They should have told us that he wouldn't be able to come in for the majority of the appointment. About the last 10-15 minutes of our appointment she brought Greg back and showed us a few things so that made it a little better.
Our next appointment is August 28th. That is when my doctor will review the report with us. He told us that "no news is good news", so I should hope not to hear from him any sooner than our appointment time. Even though I was unable to see my babies during the appointment, the technician kept saying that baby A (little girl) was not being cooperative and would not stop moving. Hmmm. Are we seeing a pattern there? It made me laugh. The tech seemed frustrated and would huff and puff on occasion. She made me feel like they had behavior problems and that I couldn't control my children. =) She told me a couple of times that I'd have to come back to do the spine pictures because of baby A not cooperating. Luckily, little girl mellowed out some and the tech was able to get the pictures she needed after looking at baby B.
I've had a lot of leg/ankle swelling, which earned me a trip the the emergency room about a week ago. Ugh. That was not fun! The doctor thought that I had a DVT (blood clot). Supposedly, I had every symptom of having one. It was kind of scary for a while, but fortunately, they were able to rule that out and we were able to get home about 2:30 a.m.
My belly seems to have grown quite a bit over the last couple of weeks. When I went in for an appointment, I was measuring at 26-27 weeks (for a singleton pregnancy-- obviously I would be measuring more because of twins even though I'm just at 20 weeks). Dr. Troung said that with anyone this measurement could be + or - 2. I don't look that big, but I definitely notice a difference in it's size. =) I've been taking some pictures all along so I'm hoping to post some pictures of my growing belly in a slide show.
Here are the latest pics. I wish they were clearer than they are, but I guess it works. You can really only see their head and body, and not their legs in these pics. Our little girl is on the bottom and she has her arms up covering her face. I thought that was a really cute picture. Since when is she shy? And baby boy is on top facing the camera. He's so mellow and cooperative (another Greg perhaps?)... my sweet little boy! =)
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Baby Girl!
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