Week 38

First of all, my husband is trying to give me a complex!! Every time I move, he asks if I'm in labour! But that's not all! Remember how my mom was giving me a hard time about rubbing one side of my belly more than the other, in essence touching one twin more than the other? Well at my NST appointments they look for heart rate fluctuations, like when the baby moves the heart rate goes up by 20 bpm for a few seconds. Twin A is a showoff, moving all the time. Twin B, she's fairly relaxed until the evening hours, so I've been poking her to get her to move when the heart monitor is on her. M teased me about loving one more than the other on Wednesday when we were there. Not cool.

There's one more. My belly makes the perfect place to keep small things, like cans of pop, a book, or a cell phone say. M sort of mildly freaks out whenever my cell phone finds it's way to my belly. He thinks it'll give the twins brain tumors. Oh boy. BTW, the top of my belly is where the twins' feet are. :)

I'm going to have a couple of babies in 61 hours. Or sooner. But hopefully they'll wait the 61 hours.

The other day I went downtown to Walmart and to a new Halloween store. Don't worry, I've already been reprimanded by the proper authority! One of my BFFs totally was not happy with me for doing unessential energy-spending. She let me stay out since I was accompanied by M and AM. So while I was at Walmart people kept starting at me! Like EVERYONE stared, not just the occasional person. My Pastor's wife happened to be there too. When we stopped to chat with her, she just kept shaking her head and saying "God is good" and "God is with you." It was pretty funny.

Only my sister and I went into the Halloween store. M isn't as much of a fan of decorating for Halloween as we are. :) We were approached by what I assume was the owner, as he was the only employee not in a silly wig or partial costume. He came up behind us and asked if we needed anything. When I turned to answer he said "WOAH! You're having a busy day!" Now I'm not sure if he was under the impression that I got pregnant earlier in the day and was going to deliver later that evening, but he was sufficiently freaked out and left us alone. Well done daughters! :)

Let's see. What else has been going on? Oh! My pre-op appointment. I walked in and the lady said "Ooooo! The twins!" Hahaha. But you would think they wouldn't be as excited anymore! There is something in the water up here or something. The nurse who did my NST after my pre-op told me that there have been 7 sets of twins born in the hospital since March of this year! She also told me that there are 3 of us pregnant with twins and coming in for NSTs right now. That's just crazy talk.

I'm hoping to be home on Wednesday of next week, but I can't promise when I'll post again. Pictures to come asap though!

Odd Things

Okay, so I can't resist.

At my new place our "junk" mail included a Victoria's Secret catalogue. Not one nursing bra. That's odd. ;)

Do you know what is ridiculously difficult to use when you have a giant beach ball stuffed down your shirt? A laptop. I dare you to try it. Those beach toys can't be too far away yet!!

X scraped his knee on the playground at school the other day. His teacher took a band-aid out of the box, unwrapped it and put it in his "home bag." I'm sure there is an explanation that includes some fantastic X-logic....but I found it odd. Why send a band-
aid home?

My sister positively freaks out whenever my babies become active! For example:

Week 37

It's all just odd anyway, so to call this post odd things just seems redundant.

M keeps asking if I'm in labour. Whenever I sit up in bed, pause while walking, or move from one sitting position to another...so about 30 times in a 24 hour period. I'm not sure he's going to make it through his next on-shift set!

Did I tell you I broke my toe? Oh yeah. I'm that awesome. I was sitting on a stool and tried to hook my foot and only my baby toe took hold. The rest of my foot tried to leave my baby toe behind while it fell back to the floor. That felt awesome. The odd thing is not that I broke my toe, I broke my other baby toe last summer, I really am that awesome. The odd thing is that my foot is already so swollen that the toe couldn't get any bigger! It just points in a slightly new direction now.

You know how you sneeze and, if it's a really good one, you see stars? I see stars all the time. When I look to the left, or right. Sometimes when I breathe. It's pretty.

M's sister had a baby two days ago! Little guy came about 3 weeks early, but everyone is happy and healthy, so it's fabulous!!!

I had my second NST appointment this week. When I was waiting to check in the lady behind the desk looked up and in a very terrified voice asked if I was in labour. Bahaha. I assured her everything was normal and she calmed down and asked a few questions. She seemed very disappointed that she isn't on duty next Monday when I go in to have my babies.

The best part about the NST appointment was that M and I got to talk to a nurse who is actually the mother of twins. And she nursed them! She had great advice and stories. Obviously she was way more helpful than the public health person that directed me to a website. I was actually able to ask specific questions and she had some great answers, as far as I could tell anyway.

X is learning sign language at school. Here is a series of signs I hope he doesn't learn!!

Started packing the baby bag for the hospital yesterday. Will probably get around to packing a bag for me in the next day or two. My sister asked me if I was afraid at all, I told her about my brain being constantly 15% terrified. She says she's terrified and she's not even pregnant. Today I realized it's only 10 days until I have twins to take care of. If I could curl up into a ball and rock, I would. But I can't. I'm sort of a walking ball at this point.

And Air Canada better not strike. That is all. I have people coming don't you know!!!!

Odd Things - Week 36

WoooHooo! Do the happy dance! We made it to week 36! This means that they won't just ship me down to Edmonton if I go into labour. Nothing like a 5 hour drive home with newborn twins while recovering from giving birth! I am now 36 weeks and 2 days. The counter over on the side of this blog says I have 26 days to go. It lies. My c-section has been scheduled for 14 days from now. So two weeks from this moment I should be not pregnant, but possibly way busier!

Other odd things...hmmm, let me think. A while ago I came across an article online that was about what you should NOT say to pregnant women. Most of the taboo comments revolved around the size of the expectant mother. And one comment that you should never utter apparently is "Are you sure it's not twins?" That is actually something I heard a lot when I was pregnant with X. Granted, he was big enough to be twins! But that didn't really bother me. The comment that bothered me the most was when I would ask question of a mother, not mine, about pregnancy, or their own labour experience and their answer was "oh, you'll know." Fabulously unhelpful.

My doctor went out of the country. I knew this was taking place, and he is scheduled to be back before my delivery date, but a couple of odd things have happened because of his trip. First, before he left, he took my file home with him and locked it in his car. That's odd. Because my file is unavailable, the doctor I saw this week had no history to go on. My blood pressure was up 12 points from last Tuesday to this Wednesday. My temporary doctor didn't care. In fact, he said I don't need any more appointments between now and delivery. I'm sort of glad he has not been my doctor from the beginning with this. Instead of going to the doctor, I am now going to the hospital every week for NSTs. That's where they put the heart monitors on the babies and make sure they are behaving as they should. That's it. If something should go wrong however, then I am to make an appointment. I've decided this doctor is wrong. If something goes wrong, I'm still going to the hospital! By the way, I went for an NST on Friday and my bp had dropped back down 17 points into way healthy margins. It was just the heat and the waiting.

Speaking of heat. It's odd that the three hottest days of summer happened last week. 31 and 32?! That was a little much I think!

Oh yeah, when I was leaving the hospital after my NST people stared at us like I was too stupid to realize I was heading the wrong way. I'm sure they thought I should turn around and go have the baby immediately.

My Friday appointment was the first baby appointment that M has been able to accompany me to since that one time we ended up at the hospital and found out I was having twins. I guess that's just what happens when there's already a child at home that needs constant supervision! He's in school full time now, so M gets to come with. Isn't that exciting!? He played Angry Birds the whole time.

M set up the crib a few days ago. That's not really odd, but it is exciting!

I'm starting to worry about the individuality of my daughters! Ok. I say starting to...I've actually been worried about it for at least 6 weeks. I don't have a twin A wardrobe and a twin B wardrobe. I have baby girl stuff and whoever I'm holding when I grab an outfit is who gets to wear it. Even if her sister wore it last time. When do you think this becomes not ok?

I know I'm all over the map with this post, but my brain just is not functioning in a straight line.

It is becoming increasingly difficult to drive. I am relying more on my mirrors now than I ever have before! I just can't turn at the waist! It's impossible!

I'm really looking forward to no heartburn! Also, no swollen feet. And baths. I can't wait to relax in a tub again!

I got mauled at Walmart today. True story. The cashier who was looking after the self checkouts came over to chat. That meant there was no belt or register to act as a barrier. She was very disappointed to learn that I do in fact have family here, so I didn't need her babysitting services after all. Free or not. She informed me that she would love to have another baby of her own, but her baby is 20. M tried to stop the mauling, but our station was not co-operating so she kept wandering over! Oh well.

I'll try to be on here more consistently over the next few days, and I will do my best to get belly shots! Promise!!

Odd things - Week 35

Oh boy things changed this week!! We moved, X started grade one, I got my delivery date, my sister and her husband moved into the same house as us. It's continuing to be a crazy adventure for sure.

I did forget to tell you though, while on vacation I found out for sure that I'm huge. We went to Swiss Chalet, which I was TOTALLY looking forward to, and I didn't fit. Really, all around it was a comical experience. When I told the hostess we needed a table for 10 she seriously stared her little table map for about 5 minutes. The restaurant was empty, but they didn't want to open extra sections, so she was trying to decide which booth built for 4 would work best. She ended up putting us in 3 separate booths, then the entertainment started. The old people (for that is who frequents Swiss Chalet the most) stared at me as I tried and failed to sit in the booth. I could fit sideways, but that would have meant eating over my shoulder! Not so great. So I asked for a chair and became a fire hazard at the end of one table. Nothing like feeling demanding! The next large party that came got the tables with chairs in the other section. Awesome.

On another note, here are some things I am looking forward to! Sleeping on my stomach! I have no grand illusions of getting more sleep, just more comfortable sleep! Stretching and cracking my back! Being able to look behind me without standing up to turn completely around! Being able to get out of bed without plotting 3 or 4 movements ahead. I have 3 weeks and a day until my c-section. I'm already looking forward to getting home.

Speaking of home, I love our new place! I don't hear the highway anymore, and so far there are no neighbours pressing their noses up against my windows! We're obviously not totally unpacked yet, there are still boxes everywhere and laundry to be done, but I really like it. Also I'm excited to hang pictures! We weren't allowed anything on the walls in the last place. Boo to strange rules. I felt pretty useless during the move of course. M kept telling me to sit down, but that's just not the way I am usually when there's stuff to be done! I'm happy to be slowly doing things here though! I have finished a few loads of little girl laundry, next is laundry for people who are already born!

My lap top is on the fritz still, so no pictures, but I'll get some up soon! Promise!