ABOUT US:

October 30 07

• is when I decided I needed to take a pregnancy test. I began having pains in my breast and wasn't quiet sure of my next period since the past couple of months it had actually changed days by at least a week. I also began having indigestion but was putting it off as if I had eaten something horrible since I never have this issue. I also began to gain weight, which I also put off as eating too much at the time. You would think that I would remember all of this stuff from my last pregnancy with Julianna, but I guess since it was a little over 6 years ago- I didn't realize how much I had forgotten. Pregnancy test came out positive within 30 seconds of taking it. I think at this moment I wasn't sure of what to even think.... and began crying.

November 7 07

• I estimate the due date to be around July 3rd, only one day shy of Corey's birthday. Not exactly sure but I guess at that point I went with the date that the computer gave me.

November 20 07

• Found out my insurance finally went through and had my first wic appointment at 9am. The nutritionist told me that I had about 15 pounds to play around with since I had gone from 125 to 140 within the last month.
• Playing around I def. had with the weight, considering this is the week that my "morning" sickness hit a high. I had never, even with carrying Julianna, thought that my sickness could get any worse. Smells were out of this world, small rooms made me sick, and the fact that no matter what I ate I could NOT keep it down. At this moment the Kitchen even became my enemy- a place I once liked to be to cook- I could not stand to even look at the food in the refridgerator. It looked as though food wasn't even appealing to me.

November 28 07

• My first intake appointment was today with Partner's in Women's Health. Basically we just had to fill out papers, give history of health in families, and pre-register for the Hospital. We estimated again when the baby would be due and now it's coming to about July 8th. I think that is off, but who knows we will see in the coming month. Kim set my appointment for thhe first Ultrasound a week before we would actually be able to see a Doctor. Looks as if they are pretty busy, and because it falls around the holidays most of them have taken vacation. She tells me that I will be seeing all of the Doctors in the office which is about 6 or so, since the one who would be delivering the baby would be an on call Doctor.

December 1 07

• Corey, Julianna and I move into our new apartment. I can barely move a finger, much less get off of the couch. I'm so sick that any movement feels like I'm about to roll over and die. I tried to help as much as I could in order to bring things up our 3 floors.. Yeah I said it (we are now living on the 3rd floor). Which of course I like the idea of it, but with that said by the time I am up to the second one- I can barely breath and my heart is pulsing as if I'm about to have an heart attack. I could only hope that this will get better in time, and not last my whole pregnancy.

December 26 07 (12 weeks)

When I first found out that we were having twins.

• This is something I only ever dreamed of, but for some reason just like my daughter I knew that I would eventually have a pair. Although there was alot of shock- something that seemed it needed to sink in before I actually believed that what the u/s tech was saying was actually true. And there they were- two seperate sacs and two different placentas. I'm guessing I've been blessed with a gift that happened naturally.
• They are Di-Di. (Doctors said we will not know if they are identical or faternal until the birth, or with genetic testing.)
• The ultrasound tech issues me chewable vitamins- without vitamin A, DH, and Folic Acid. She says for me to take them at 15 weeks since I had been sick the past couple of months.
• We were told that I should have a QUAD test done also in order to make sure that there was no risk of Downs.
• I swear we were there for over an hour while she processed all the information, made all my ultrasound appointments for the whole pregnancy and allowed us to still process the fact that we were not only having one, but 2.
• Called Corey's parent's once we got out of the doctors since they live in Jaxn-ville and then made all of the other calls to anyone that we could think of. I didn't tell my parent's until we arrived at their house... decided that we would let them look at the ultrasound pictures and try to guess what in the world they were looking at. The funny thing is, the day before they had just been joking about having triplets... now my mom is standing there with the biggest smile and saying "omg are you serious" as she is staring at the two heads which clearly mark Baby A and Baby B when you take a closer look.

January 2 08 (13 weeks)

• Today is the first OB appointment and again I have to dish out all the information I can remember from the birth and pregnancy of Julianna so that there is a better understanding of what my happen with this one. We have a couple of situations that are about to make me a high risk pregnancy: The fact that when I was 16 I had a cone biopsy done because they found precancerous cells on my cervix and second I did not carry Julianna full term... giving birth to her on the day I turned 36 weeks. They began speaking about doing cervical lengthing on me in order to help hold the twins in.... this somewhat scared me, but like with anything else I knew that it couldn't of been any worse than anything else. Now we are scheduling another ultrasound with the doctors to check my cervix in a couple of weeks.
• Other than this my morning sickness has subsided to only throwing up stomach acids in the morning with the occasional- food that doesn't agree with my stomach.
• Ultrasound has been scheduled again in a couple of weeks to check my cervical length.
• Blood was taken today in the hospital to check for all the general things you need to check for in the beginning.

January 14 08

• Vaginal ultrasound to check my cervical length- in which it is measuring at around 4.3. They seem to still be concerned with it and decide to send me to highrisk at the hospital so that they can have a closer look as to what needs to be done with the lengthing. Since there was someone there in training watching the ultrasound our look at the babies actually got stretched out into a 30 minute ultrasound.

January 23 08

• Quad test was at 1pm. All they did was pull blood, but it was funny seeing that on the orders for the test it said that it should only be for a singleton birth. I do it anyways with question in my mind.

January 30 08 (17 weeks)

• At 9:15 Corey and I went to the first high risk appointment at W. Hospital. This ultrasound checked my cervical length in which it measured at 5cm. The doctor doesn't seem to be concerned with doing any sort of lengthing. (woo.)
• I told Corey during the u/s to stop looking for the weiners... since we didn't know the sexes yet. The tech then said if she could see what we were having she would tell us.
• Babies are measuring at 6oz -Baby B and Baby A -7oz, and my uterus is measuring that of a 21 week pregnancy.

WE ARE HAVING BOYS.

Their names: Cameron Alexander, and Jayden Elijah

February 3 08

• While sitting in front of the tv with my feet underneath me- I felt a bulge of I don't know what in my vaginal area. I immediatly went the bathroom to check, and figured that maybe it just happened from sitting the way I was. I called Corey to let him know and then just laid in the tub to see if the swelling would go down. I figured the next morning I would call the doctors while at work to see if I could be seen.

February 4 08

• 4 hours later after finally not playing phone tag with the doctors I'm given an appointment. Doctor G. is not sure what it was and said for me not to worry unless it was to get bigger. I would have to say if she would of seen it last night before the swelling went down she may of had a better understanding of it all.

February 27 08 (21.3 weeks)

• I have both appointments this morning: High risk ultrasound and also my Ob appt in Merritt Island. While at the Hospital they tell me that this will be my last check of my cervical length.. which is still measuring at 5cm. Good news... very good news. They also tell me that Baby B is now Baby A since it has moved closer to the vaginal canal, and that when it comes to naming them we may want to wait until they come out since they are now switching positions. Both Boys are around one pound with the "new" baby A being just a little bit bigger than the other. ( about 1 lb a piece, which is in the 10%).
• At my Ob check Dr. G tells me that I am measuring at 25 weeks now even though I am only at 21.3, She also suggest that since I had an abnormal pap smear at the beginning of my pregnancy that I need to go ahead and have another procedure done that will take a little piece of tissue and check the cells to see if anything further needs to be done.
• My weight gain has been subtle. I mentioned earlier that I had 15 pounds to play with.. Well I'm only 148 lbs right now and hopefully I will not go past 160 by the end of this so that I can easily lose the weight gained. Oh how I can not wait to have my pre-pregnancy body back :)

March 4 08 (22.2 weeks)

• While at work I began preparing myself for this procedure when at 200 I get a call from the receptionist at my Doctors appointment. They inform me that Dr. S. says that it is too risky of a procedure to do this late in the pregnancy and that it could be dangerous. He says that we will just wait to do another pap instead at my pre. part. appointment to see if there were any changes. He thinks that since my immune system is down this could be a reason for the abnormal pap.
• Other than this the babies have been moving around like crazy and I've actually began to experience braxon hicks. I've also been having alot of pain in my hips and pressure from the added weight of the pregnancy. LOL, since I'm carrying it all up front. I finally figure out a way to solve my back pain on my right side. I noticed that if I could help not walking with the "penguin" waddle it helped SOOO much to relieve it. I've also made sure that my back is straight up and down.

My mom and I decided that we would have the baby shower April 19 since I will be around 29 weeks then.

March 13 08 (23.4 weeks)

• This weeks update isn't much to add too..... The last couple of days I've seem to of caught a cold- stuffy nose, sneezing and coughing. I thought at first it was just my allergies until the coughing began. I never called the doctors to see what I could take, and figured that I would try to let it subside by itself. It seems that since we have left the windows open to have fresh air flow through the house it has been alot better.
• I can't fail to mention that on Monday my job threw a suprise baby shower for me. I really am thankful for them doing something like that- it mean't more than I can really explain :)
• It looks as though this past week has been one of the best so far in the pregnancy- Its true that the second semester seems to be the better half- lol let me just hope that its just not the "better" week...

March 19 08 (24.3 weeks)

• It would be so nice if this heartburn/ indigestion would find another home and leave my body for good. It's managed to get worse this week- there's nothing like waking up at 2 or 3 am almost throwing up from it.. or better yet having to try and lay down with it. I've decided that I would give up red sauces for the remainder of my pregnancy... or atleast as long as possible... (Red sauces, and Italian food is practically the only things that I've enjoyed or even craved this whole pregnancy... ) Oh yeah, and I can't forget the bananna pudding (Thanks Corey's Mom ;) ).. but that didn't bother me.
• I've been having contractions again... I haven't timed them or anything ( but it seems as though the more things I do, the more I have them.) I have a feeling that I'm going to have them by 32 weeks... I don't know why I have this feeling but my body has told me. I've started to have alot of bathroom issues when it comes to sneezing and coughing... let's just say I have to have my legs crossed. lol.

March 22 08 (25 weeks)

• Soooooo, for those of you that have begun having some sort of contractions you know the pain that comes with it. Without really realizing it, I first only dismissed it late last night as my back hurting. But then I come to realize again that I'm pregnant- and those radiating pains that are going from my stomach to my back are not just aches but contractions. I'm suprised that I've begun to have them this early on- with my last pregnancy I didn't have painful ones until a week or so before Julianna was born.
• The last time I had them to where they made me uncomfortable was on Wednesday while I was in Research Methods, and sat for another hour before I decided I might need to leave to go home.
• Their movements have slowed down alot, and it seems as if one if not both have turned head down since all my kicks that I do recieve seem to be in my upper stomach.

March 27 08 (25.4 weeks)

• The story always seems to get more interesting as you find out new things with a pregnancy with twins and the progression through it. On Monday at work I began to lose the mucus plug... with Julianna I never saw what the famous plug looked like. Let's just say it was like snot (No pink, or blood). Being that I had never seen this I told Corey and let him know that I think that I passed but would wait until Wed, the 26th to ask the doctor about it.
• My highrisk appointment went well yesterday morning at 8am. The two boys are weighing in at 1lb 12oz and 1lb 9oz and up in the 50th percentile and 48th. They are measuring only a week from one another which is good. The highrisk doctor for the first time was over an hour late to the ultrasound and being I've never had him didn't know what to expect. He seemed very hurried once he did arrive, and I tried to explain to him about the contractions that I've been experiencing the past week. Corey asked him when we should go in and he kinda blew it off to saying it's normal and made reference to me wearing a maternity belt since they are probably linked to ligament pain. UMMM, no... I'm sorry but I knew that ligament pain didn't just wake you up at 2am for 2 hours with it stretching from the top of your stomach, the bottom and then to your back. He did tell me that my test results came back for the Quad test.. and for my age I was a 1 in 1000 something chance of having downs but that my results came back with 1 in 5000 something. (Don't quite remember the exact). When leaving the appointment I mentioned to Corey that I was going to mention my concerns to my Ob in an hour and see what she had to say to me.
• So far my Ob says that I've gained a healthy amount of weight (I'm up to 158 right now), and that if I haven't been taken my prenatal pills consistantly that I needed to do so now so that my iron is not depleted from my body. She wrote me a new script so that I could try the pills instead of the chewables because they were nasty. LOL. I must mention that within the practice that I go to we have to see every doctor to become familiar with them, today was my first time meeting this OB and I was very impressed with the time she took with us. I told her about the "snot" and the contractions and she then asked me to undress so she could do an internal exam. She told me after that I am beginning to soften, although still closed, and my cervix is beginning to shorten in length. She said anymore signs of contractions I need to go to the hospital to be safe- that way they can begin any preventive care needed- steriods and meds to stop my contractions. As long as she said we can get the boys to 28 weeks we will be fine, she's hoping that we can make it to 32. The both of them are still sitting breech and she said that there is still a little time that we can see them go head down. As long as both or baby A is down then everything will be a go for a vaginal dellivery. *** Crossing my fingers***
• It was told to me that I need to think about either cutting work hours really short, or not working at all. If I do continue I need to make sure that within some period Im able to lay down, or atleast when I get home to lay with my legs. It looks as though my end of May work schedule will be cut pretty soon. I'm hoping to make it atleast 2 more weeks.
• I recieved the orders for my glucose test, and also my hemoglobin etc blood work but will have to go tomorrow to have them done since the hospitals system was down for checking my insurance.
• Movements have been the usual although like I mentioned before they have slowed down since they are in their pattern of sleep. They are strong though and like to bounce my little stomach around.

March 29 (25.6 weeks)

• I went to the hospital yesterday for my blood work and the glucose test. The flavor that they gave me was Orange and I managed within about a minute to drink it down. I felt fine afterwards but later on at night that drink caught up to me. I began to have stomach problems with the feeling I was about to over heat and got into the tub to relieve them. After sitting in there for 10 minutes I got back out and was finally able to relieve what was going on. I didn't remember that drink having that type of effect on me with my last pregnancy. Hopefully that test comes out with good results because I don't want to have to do the 3 hour one.

April 12 (27.6 weeks)

• Failed the glucose test that I took. Dr. says its most likely just due to the twin pregnancy. So I will go retake the 3 hour this week and get my RH, since it was negative during my first pregnancy. It is thought that on Wed one of thhe boys was laying head down with one transverse, but she said that it was still a little early to be able to tell. I feel like they have both turned now- my stomach has changed shape, again though thats wishful thinking on my part.
• I went to the hospital at 26.1 weeks due to having BH contractions, they did a strip and it said that everything was fine- there was no looks of pre-term labor within the next 2 weeks.
• Yesterday I began having BH contractions about once an hour with a sometimes unusual pain down below my belly buttton. I seem to put things off like this because I don't want to go to the hospital and sit there for hours with the end results being nothing.
• Seems like indigestion is getting better compared to the last two weeks/month.
• I've been getting alot of kicks towards the top of my stomach- and last night I actually felt a whole arm switch it's position- really weird.

April 24 (29.4 weeks)

• Haven't heard anything back on the Glucose test, nor anything about getting my RH shot. My next regular OB appointment is next Wed.
• I had my Highrisk appointment yesterday. Baby A weighs 3lb 3oz and is now laying head down. Baby B is weighing 2lbs 11oz and is Breech.
• Began having cramping today while walking around the stores- lasted an hour and finally went away. Wasn't sure what it was but laid on my left side for about 20 minutes before I was about to call the doctor.
• Had the babies shower on Sunday- awesome turn out with awesome family. Love you all.

April 27 (30 weeks)

• Water broke yesterday while at the Park. Baby A is -1 stationed, 60 percent effaced, and 2 centimeters dilated. I am not being released until they are born. They are saying the boys are going to be in the Neonatal till their original due date July 6.