18 Weeks - Happy Thanksgiving!

So, 18 weeks is just about halfway to our "modified" due date. Doc said plan on 37 weeks, so that's what I'm aiming for. I've still not felt movement from the boys, not that I can tell for sure in any case. I've been concentrating more on Baby B vs. Baby A only because they said that Baby A's placenta is in the front so we won't feel him for quite some time yet. He's got to get a pretty strong kick going before we'll be able to feel it through the placenta. So.....I'm still growing at a fast pace. You can't really tell until you lift the shirt....then it's like, "whoa Mama"!! My mom had taken to calling me "little mama" but now that Biff (my sis-in-law) is preggo again, SHE gets the title of "little mama" and I've been upgraded to "big mama"....oh well, it was nice to be "little mama" for a while :)
Thanksgiving was spectacular. Yummy food and as always, great to spend time with the fam. I do however always miss John's family a bit around the Holiday's.....I am happy to be settled so close to my family and to be able to experience the boys (nephews) and be near my parents, but I feel badly that we aren't able to have the same level of interaction with the Fallon Family. We aren't taking our annual New Year's Eve trip out East this year either. We usually go the week between Christmas and New Years, but there's just too much going on this year.....we have lots to do yet to get ready. So, John's Mom and Dad will be coming to stay with us for that week instead. Looking forward to having them, it'll be a bit of a shock for them, they've not yet been here in the dead of winter before! I'm sure we'll have the fireplace going non stop. Well, not much else to say......hope Thanksgiving was good for everyone and that you all got a little shopping done. 18 week pictures are posted for your "viewing pleasure". Love!

17 Weeks

WoW!!! I cannot believe the way my belly is growing at such an alarmingly FAST rate!! I can only hope that all the weight I am gaining is going right to the baby and not to my hips and butt! And, if there's anything I could wish for to avoid would be, "Please, do not let me grow a double chin"!! :) I am still feeling pretty good....a little relapse of the migraines, but now with our "long-term treatment plan" in place, the severity of them should be lessened. I'm having fears that with how the pregnancy has gone (having every pregnancy symptom under the sun) that my labor is going to also be just as bad!! Not that there's a good labor I imagine, but I would be okay with an uneventful, quick labor. I've been doing a ton of research and a ton of shopping to prepare for these little ones. With the help of my good pal De, I've been able to find some steller deals on used baby equipment online and with my good pal Bish (Em) I've been able to bounce my worries and concerns without having to call the health care professionals daily....to both of you, I thank you!! And, as long as I'm giving thanks to people (what, I must think I won an Emmy or something huh?) I need to give a shout out to my darling husband as well. Although it's my body going through all of this, he still considers it a team effort....it's actually quite comforting. We'll see how thankful I am for him once we start putting the cribs together....let's just say we have completly different opperational processes.....he is a strict "by the book" have to read the directions and I am, "hum....this looks like it goes here....what are all these spare parts?" Good pal and neighbor Christine (Stinger) has offered to assist John as she has seen the two of us trying to put things together before....Thanks Stinger!! I can't tell you much else, but I do know that as I get older and my life expereinces are changing, one thing remains the same......good friends and a solid support structure are important and VERY hard to find. True friends really stand up in the front and it's so clear who you can count on.....even if you don't see them for years at a time.....looking forward to having lunch tomorrow with once such friend. As always, thank you all (all 5 of you) for your love and support. We'll have another ultrasound in a couple weeks and I'll have more to report then....we'll see how big these boys are getting!!
XoXo

16 Weeks

So, here I am again blogging two weeks at a time. It's not like the nostalgia of having a blog has worn off or anything, it's just that there's not a whole lot going on right now. I have made a trip back to the ER for fluids, at this time, my morning sickness has passed, but I have now developed migraines! It's pretty rough at the time....what with the throwing up and the bloody noses, but once it's passed, I have to say I feel SO much better and I am back to enjoying pregnancy again!

The verdict is in!!

BABY A is a ????????




BABY B is a??????





What do we have to say about it????? OH BOY!

15 Weeks

Wow.....15 weeks already!!!! That seems almost impossible. We are almost half way through. Well, halfway through to our "modified" due date. We have an appointment tomorrow and we are really excited! We are hoping that since our doctor does an ultrasound every time we go, that we may be able to find out tomorrow what the babies are!! As you all have probably read on Facebook, our cribs have been ordered, sent, and delivered and are sitting in the nursery awaiting assembly. We also got a changing table/dresser too.....a lot of furniture for one little room......our fertility doctor checked up on us yesterday and as I told her, it all seems so surreal - like the stork still brings the babies! :) I am sure once they start moving around it will all seem a bit more real. I can't wait!!

So, what's been going on in the past few weeks? Well, my morning sickness has subsided a bit only in the last week. Last Monday and Tuesday I was so incredibly sick that I ended up calling the nurse line on Tuesday morning as I was worried that I'd not been able to keep any fluids or food down. I am not usually a nervous nelly in general, but I was starting to worry about the babies. So, our dietitian appointment was canceled on Tuesday and I was told to head to OB Triage. That's where I spent the day. My husband, my loving and wonderful husband spent the day with me as I lay on the hospital bed feeling like a kicked dogs as they gave me some IV fluids and some anti nausea medication. We did at one point say that it was kind of good that this happened......we got the "lay of the land" and now know a little bit more about where to go on "that day". I haven't been sick since last Tuesday, have felt a little queasy almost every day, but thankfully everything has stayed down. I have a "war wound" to show for my bravery....or lack thereof!

What else? Hum....not much. Looking forward to our doctor appointment tomorrow. Oh! Also!! Depending on how John's health insurance matches up to mine....cost, deductible, coverage, etc. I may be staying home with the babies. If we send them to day care....either full time, part time whatever......I will not make enough in a year to cover what it costs to send them to daycare. And I'm not really comfortable sending them to a stay at home mom.....for that, I could do it myself. And it's been hard to find in-home day cares that will take two infants at one time. So this week that has been our "discussions".

Stay tuned! I'll upload new pictures (sonograms) tomorrow.....although if we find out what we are having tomorrow, you'll probably know WELL before this gets updated!

Thanks all for your continued kind words and friendship. I don't know what I would do without you!

12 Weeks

Okay.....I'm bad I know. It's been quite some time since I've last updated :( I have a hard time these days finding the energy to do anything. So, I've been keeping a little "log" of things to remember when I do go and update. So, the babies are no longer "blobs". They are starting to resemble actual babies. We are so lucky to be able to see them each time we go in for an appointment. We did tell the nurse during this appointment that I've been pretty sick. My morning sickness started around 10 weeks, just when I thought I was going to get by without any! HAHAHA! Other than that I really haven't been experiencing any physical changes, no mood swings, no cravings, no major weight gain. I can still sleep on my side and on my belly just fine. I have however noticed that I mistype words a lot and have a hard time completing sentences.....my sister calls it "pregnant stupid brain" although I'm not exactly sure that's a clinical term :)