12 Weeks!

So I am that much closer to the end of the 1st trimester!

How far along: 12 weeks

Total weight gain: -10 lbs I was pretty sick this past week. The last two days I have been doing well though. I hope it keeps up!

Maternity clothes: Same as before. All maternity pants, but some non maternity shirts I can still wear.

Stretch marks: No new ones that I know of!

How big is belly? 44 inches

Sleep: Its getting better but I still sleep when I can. I'm in bed by 930 every night

Best moment this week: Um...not puking! Two days and counting now!

Movement: None yet. I hope that I feel some soon.

Food cravings: Lemonade shakeup and soft pretzel

Belly button in or out: Innie

What I miss: not having a sore back and not worrying about how much I am doing

What I'm looking forward to: a week and a half till our dr appt!

Milestone: almost being done with the 1st trimester!

How big are the babies? According to the bump, the babies are the size of plums. Average size: 2.1 in, .49 oz. They are growing so much already!

I will post some more tomorrow. I am super tired and my back is killing me!

11 Weeks (ok so 1 day late...)

I found this cute way to keep track of what is going on during pregnancy week by week.
How far along: 11 weeks
Total weight gain: -7lbs I keep getting sick and still have pretty narly food aversions.
Maternity clothes: Yup! Pretty much everything is Maternity already. Some shirts I had before I can still wear, but pretty much all pants are maternity now.
Stretch marks: No new ones. Just the ones I have from Joey
How big is belly? I measured it yesterday. 43 inches
Sleep: I'm tired all. the. time. I sleep whenever I can. Some days I sleep an extra 4 hrs!
Best moment this week: When I got my Zofran today and didn't puke!
Movement: None yet. I hope that I feel some soon.
Food cravings: Nothing that I can think of this week.
Belly button in or out: Innie
What I miss: not worrying about what I eat/drink
What I'm looking forward to: Our next appointment when we can see the babies again!
Milestone: reaching the 11 week mark! Whoo hoo! Grow baby grow!
How big are the babies? According to the bump, the babies are the size of limes. (well they say they are 1.6 in and .25 oz. I dont see how that is the size of a lime but anywho!)

Joey is doing well. He had a fever on Monday and then again today. I kept giving him tylenol to help break it and I think that it broke for mom this morning. I am glad my little man is feeling better. I got his 9 month pictures taken yesterday. I will try to post his pictures when I can. He is sleeping alot lately which is good. I guess that means he is hitting a growth spurt. I love my little man! Well I am sleepy and I have to work tomorrow so I will finish getting things ready and go to bed!

11 Week pictures!

Baby Pictures!!!

So I downloaded the pictures that Mom had posted on Facebook of the twins. I have the originals, but no scanner to scan them in, so we took a pictures of them with her camera phone and then uploaded them to Facebook. They are so precious! I can't believe that God has blessed me with twins. Two babies growing inside of me at the same time. Its going to be a handful, but its going to be so much fun when they are older and they have someone to play with all of the time. Here they are. First is Twin A and the second is Twin B! Twin A was posing much better than Twin B was. The picture of Twin B is of its back instead of a good profile shot like they wanted.

Joey is growing every day. He was up at his Nanny and Pa's house this weekend with Marc. He came back and was able to blow raspberries threw his lips and we can say, "Joey, Show us your teeth" and he will smile so you can see his teeth and laugh at the same time. Mom kept him tonight because I have to work overnight and it was just easier on Marc tomorrow morning, so he is at Mom's. Marc said he started bawling when he was trying to leave. It breaks my heart that he gets upset that we have to leave him. Mom also text me and said he kept saying "Mom...Mom....Mom" He doesn't call me momma or mommy or anything cute like that. He calls me Mom. I guess its because he hears me saying Mom all of the time when I am talking about my mom. Well I can't wait to see him in the morning! I had to work the last two nights and its been rough being away from him so long and not being able to spend time with him. I know he doesn't know any better, but its still hard. Anyways, I am going to end this for tonight. I need to start thinking about getting Joey's pictures taken soon. I haven't done his 9 month pictures yet so I have to think of what would be cute. I think that I might do something summery, but I don't know yet. Leave ideas for his 9 month pictures!

Ultrasound update!

We went in for our ultrasound on Friday. I had been looking forward to it since it was scheduled the week before. I kept telling Joey that we were going to see "his babies" and that they would be excited for him to see them. We got to the appointment and didn't have to wait very long. The ultrasound technologist asked why I had a "green folder." I guess that means that I am high risk according to them (the ultrasound people, not my dr's office.) I told her about my family's history and about the reason I was in there. (I hadn't had an official ultrasound yet.) She checked everything out and said that both of the babies looked great! I haven't had a chance to upload the pictures yet, but when I do, I will post them. We saw heartbeats too! Baby A had a heartbeat of 180 and Baby B had a heartbeat of 176. Good strong heartbeats! God has given us 2 blessings! Joey did very well during the actual ultrasound, but when we were waiting for the technologist to come back with our pictures and our "due date" he was very impatient! They said that we were 3 days farther than what the ER dated us. Yay!!! Well thats it for right now, I am super sleepy and I'm at work so I will post later!

I forgot...I am going to add interesting facts that I read about twins and twin pregnancies.
-50% of fraternal twins are boy/girls, 25% are boy/boy and 25% are girl/girl.
-At 24 weeks pregnant with twins, I will look like I am 32 weeks pregnant with a single baby. Woah! Thats a big difference!

Another week!

So its been a week since I posted last. I have just been busy with work and life. The babies are doing great. We went for a dr appt last Friday. My blood pressure looked great and we got to see the babies! Dr Rempe said that at each appointment, we would get a quick ultrasound so that we can see how they are doing. Its good to be able to see them all of the time just to know they are doing well. She scheduled us for an "official" ultrasound that is tomorrow (July 17) and we will be able to get pictures so I will post those as soon as I can! Tomorrow is 10 weeks for me and I will post a belly picture and how everything is going. I will try to do that each week so you can see how the babies are growing. I got a stroller for the twins last night! I found a Double Snap and Go on Craigslist and I figured I would go look at it. It was only $20 for the stroller, 2 carseats, and 4 bases. I got there and the guy gave it to me for free! God was looking down on me when he gave that to me!

Joey is doing wonderful this week. I think he is going through a growth spurt right now. He is sleeping alot more than what I remembered him sleeping in the last few weeks. He is also not eating as much (and this is what he did when he hit a growth spurt before) He also got another tooth this week. On Monday, Marc told me, "Hey hon, I think he has another tooth in there. Its too wide to just be one tooth." I put my finger in my son's mouth (that was one of those things that I didn't ever think I would do, and sure enough, he had another tooth on the bottom right next to the one he got first. When he smiles really big, you can see the first tooth. My little man is getting so big! God really blessed us with him. He is so happy and easy going. I can sit inside the house all day with him and he is very happy or we can go out shopping and he is just enthralled with looking around at everything! I try to thank God every day for the blessing that I have already and the blessings that are growing inside of me!

Getting started...

So I am starting this blog to keep myself and others updated about my pregnancy and about how Joey is doing. Sometimes its hard to remember all of the important things that go on during our lives (weather its during pregnancy, childhood, or even adulthood) so I want to share things with my friends and family that I wouldn't just call them up and tell them.


On the baby front, I am pregnant (in case you all didn't know!) We found out on June 1 that we were expecting our second child! We were very excited but had to wait to tell people until my parents got back from Jamaica. Everyone seemed very excited to hear it! Some were more shocked than others, but they aren't the ones raising the child. On June 21, Father's Day, we got another shock. I went to the ER from work because I had been having a substansial pain in my left side. They wanted to do an ultrasound so that they could rule out an etopic pregnancy. They concluded that I did indeed have a cyst on my ovary, but we also found out that we were having TWINS! Marc and I were both shocked. I had to call him to tell him because he was visiting his parents for Father's day. I told him and he couldn't believe it. I had to tell his mom because she wouldn't believe him! So we have just been mentally preparing for the fact that we are having twins. We have to have doubles of everything now! Here is the ultrasound picture...

On the Joey front....He is getting so big! I can't believe that he is 9 months old now. He is babbling nonstop, sleeping through the night, getting into everything and crawling all over the place. He likes to walk when someone is holding his hands. He eats everything in sight as well!! We went to the dr for his 9 month check up the other day. He was 22 lbs (70th percentile), 28 7/8 in long (75th percentile) and his head circumfrence is in the 80th percentile! He is wearing 12 or 18 month clothes depending on the brand. He is such a blessing in my life. I can only hope that these babies are as good and as happy as he is!