A place for twins to call home

Hey Y'all,

So here are a couple pics of the room so far. Matt has really only got the bones up. I mean cribs, dresser, and paint. Matt is getting a new lighting fixture at Lowe's and the bedding will come this week probably so I will try to get more pics once it is in.


The paint is like a creamy yellow in case you can't make that out in the picture. --------------->

If you are thinking the dresser is a little more stained than the cribs are you are right. I was annoyed at first but it is highly improbable that I will send it back and get a dye lot closer to the cribs, each are so different. So I will deal with it. It isn't quite as bad as this picture portrays, I think it was the light in the room that made it look extra yellow. The car seats are below. I can't wait to get them in the car. They look so little right now to me. But I guess the babies will be little so it makes sense. ;)

That's all for now! Lots of Love to you all,
Krista

21 Weeks Pregnant

Hello Everyone!! 

 

 

 

This week the babies are the size of a pomegranate!

 

 

They are producing meconium, the tar-like   substance that will be in their first diaper.... Ew.

If there is a girl, then she has produced all the eggs in her ovaries that she will have for her lifetime. There are about 6 million in there.

 
Things about this week.... well the babies are moving so much more than they had before. They are really kicking and squirming. It is a neat feeling. I told Matt it's like having a couple tiny frogs in you. We have the dresser, Matt put it together and he got some clothes washed and put away. I bought some shadow boxes online for their first day home outfits and then a couple canvases to create artwork.

The bedding I am getting is from Skip Hop. It is called giraffes on parade or something like that. I like it because it is bumper free, modern and not cutesy (I am not a fan of cutesy) and I dig the colors. The artwork I mentioned above will do something with those decals. I am not sure what yet but I wanted to put them on canvases instead of the wall.
 

Man ALIVE do I want to get the Jonathan Adler giraffe lamp. But that is way to expensive for the likes of me or a nursery for that matter.  I saw a blog where a girl found a similar lamp and spray painted it white. I may have Matt do that if I can find one. Otherwise, I put a teal one on my registry so that will work fine too. :)
 
My baby shower is scheduled for March 2nd so my wonderful family are getting the invites ready and the surprise gender reveal photo that will be included. I can't wait for everyone to celebrate with us.

Well, I have an OB appt with Dr West soon so I better start getting ready! Hopefully she will have good news for us. I make a list of questions every time I see her so thank god she is patient. :)


Lots of Love!
Krista

20 Weeks Pregnant

Hello ALL!

This is the big one. I am considered truly halfway at this point... I can't believe I have even made it this far with all the ups and downs we have had.

So this week the babies are as big as bananas!

They have working taste buds.

Now, they are gulping down several ounces of amniotic fluid each day -- that's significantly more than before.

We had a Dr appt yesterday with the High Risk OB at Rush Copley. They said my previa is still gone and my cervix measured at like 3.6, so it is higher than it was last week. They took my off full bed rest and said I can do moderate activity which is exciting. I was able to cook again last night which made Matt and I pretty happy. Then they are measuring it again in two weeks. So we will see where we are at then....

 

Babies are GREAT! They are:

 

Baby A: 19 weeks 6 days measuring at 11 oz

Baby B: 20 weeks 3 days measuring at 13 oz

 

Their hearts, kidneys, brains, spinal columns and lungs were all perfect. Baby B was being uncooperative so she shook my belly to get the baby to move. The baby then shook it's head back and forth, like it was saying no. It was really cute. :)

 

Cribs are up, Matt is washing clothes this week and I think the dresser comes this week as well so we can get them all put away. Matt's parents bought the car seats and the dresser which was awesome, we opened the car seats up and they are great.  My mom is getting the bedding shortly and then we can get that washed and in as well. My Mom also bought their going home from the hospital outfits, which are a-d-o-r-a-b-l-e.  We have a couple art projects to make for their room and then we are pretty close to done with it. OH! I also ordered my breast pump from Aetna (my insurance provider) because it is now covered under the affordable health care act. It should be here in 4-6 weeks.

I know my baby shower is being feverishly worked on which I really appreciate. I keep having moments of panic where I am like, there is still so much to buy and do. But then my Mom and Matt talk me down every time, thank the lord for level heads when my pregnancy hormones are raging.

 

For all those reading, I can't thank you enough for everything you have done and continue to do. I love you all very much and I know my little munchkins will too.

 

Lots of Love,

Krista

19 weeks ...I know, I know, I am LATE!

So I am late on this one. In my defense, posting anything on this from my Ipad is frigging IMPOSSIBLE! :)

So they babies were the size of Mangoes at 19 weeks.

•  They are developing a protective coating over their skin, called vernix caseosa. It's greasy and white and you may see some of it at their birth.

• Working on their five senses. Nerve cells for their sense of taste, hearing, sight and smell are developing in their brain.

For me, I am doing pretty good. I was in bed all last week which was super boring. But I did catch up on some reading and I watched some Dead Zone which was good stuff. Poor Matt did EVERYTHING this week. I felt so bad, I am sure he loved to be my waiter. But the babies are really kicking up a storm now. Matt can feel it on the outside now!

We did have a little scare and ended up in the emergency room again. The babies were fine but I was super scared. I won't get into gory details, but yikes it was terrible. The funny part is when the ultrasound tech scanned me with that ER visit, no previa....So weird. I guess nothing about my body or this pregnancy is going to be normal though. Keeps me on my toes, hahahahaha. :)


Love,
Krista

Bed Rest Week 1

Welp. This is an interesting feat, being on bedrest. I thought it would be nice to relax and get some rest. It is so boring. I have my kindle and I downloaded a TON of free classics that I never got around to reading. I have my Nintendo DS, I have to get some more games because the two I have aren't cutting it anymore. I have the Ipad which has Netflix on it and that has been pretty great. I am going to get picture books to organize photos and start working on the babies Memory Books. I also have a recipe project that I can work on and some word searches that I can do. But I miss leaving the house already and it has been 4 days. I can't complain, I guess, I have two beautiful little babies in there that I have to keep safe.I just keep looking at the pictures of the babies and how they are the ones that I am doing this for, because I miss getting up and doing stuff already. I could possibly have 4 more months of this so I guess I better get used to it.

Lots of Love,
Krista

Me with the twins at 17 weeks!

I look tired but I promise I am not. :)

18 Weeks Pregnant ...about halfway!

Again with the photos! This thing is just not working for me lately. Hooray! I lied. Here it is!!

So the babies are the size of a sweet potato.

• They are hiccuping, swallowing, yawning and sucking their thumbs.
• They are twisting, punching and kicking... I am surely feeling that now! :)
• Their ears are in their final positions.
• Their genders can start to be distinguished at this time.

So we went to the high risk guy on Thursday. He had some news that I was not happy about. Two things really, I have placenta previa, where one of the babies placenta's are covering part of the cervix. That accounts for my bleeding episodes and they said it usually moves away on it's own. I also have a shortening cervix. It went from like 3.2 to 2.8 so he wanted me put on moderate bed rest. He told me to stay home from work and then they are going to check it next Friday to see where we are at. If it shortens anymore, I am guessing my working days are over. He said he is just being really cautious, there is no need for incredible alarm at this point. He said 2.6 is the lowest that he wants it to be at before we start to worry and possibly add medication. So that's where I am at right now with that.

Good news...the babies are awesome. We found out the tentative gender and it is fantastic. :) I won't share anything else yet because we are really not sure at this point. They are getting so big, you can really make out their features in the ultrasound pics, which is so cute. So excited for them to grow. I want them to stay in there as long as they can!

Lots of Love,
Krista