Anyway, not much to post about so I guess I will just ramble on for a few minutes. I experienced my first run in with braxton hicks contractions today. Did you know with twins you can expect all symptoms to appear like 5-8 weeks early! hehe I woke up this morning to my stomach feeling so tight and then seriously took 3 hours getting ready for work because my instinct was telling me to just take it easy today. So I did! :) I called the doctor and they explained to me what it was and it made me feel much better.
I am officially feeling very pregnant. Like, puffy and just much larger in lots of places. And it is just very all of a sudden. I will be honest, as much as I have been on cloud 9 with this pregnancy I have struggled a bit with the creeping numbers on the scale. I really had to stop and force myself to put things into perspective today. I am having twins. There are TWO babies with all there accompanying parts in my belly and I am going to gain weight. Maybe a lot. Probably a lot. I think it is time I just embrace and make a plan to get rid of it post baby! I know this is SO ridiculous but I had it in my head I would go almost full term with these babies and only gain about 20 pounds. Yeah, not gonna happen! Not sure where I even got that!!
Friday is the big gender ultrasound! Have I mentioned I am excited!? I really am. I still cannot believe this is happening to me. That this is the current reality I am living out. It is just so very exciting and surreal. I think my guess is two boys but we will see. I'm not sold 100% on my all blue outfit for the party. But no combination could go wrong! 2 boys and Jane can maintain her position on her thrown, one of each and Jane gets a sister and two girls, well, everyone is still happy but good luck Lance! :) I really just do not care one bit. I just want to see healthy little babies on Friday when we go in. However, I have been at peace this whole pregnancy about the health of these babies because no matter what they are, healthy or not, they are the little people God created them to be and we are the people He chose to parent them! I pray for their health every day but I know they are already perfect! I feel so blessed!!
Aside from pregnancy I am still learning how to be a school Speech Therapist and it's not easy people! I. do. so. much. paperwork. and I. see. SO. many. kids! I think by the time I leave to have these babies my caseload will be over 70! Talk about multi tasking...and have I mentioned that is not my strength in life? Yeah, its really not. But I love the little munchkins I work with and hope amidst all the legal junk and paperwork I am making a little bit of a difference! But it is a very big change from having one child walk into my office at a time and spend an uninterrupted hour with me or going into rooms at the nursing home and just chatting about feeding and swallowing goals with patients who have just had a stroke. But I continue to be blessed by my job and am very thankful for the part time opportunities I will have once I am a mommy to 3!
Not much else to report. I am excited for the holidays and for opportunities to get dressed up and eat peppermint bark! ;) I have a Christmas party with my college friends this weekend and I am pumped. We are all just as close as we were in college and are all kind of in different stages of life ranging from single and dating, to engaged, to married with no kids to being pregnant and having kids. It is so refreshing spending time with these girls and I look so forward to little things like this!!
Stay tunes for the big reveal.....counting down the hours to get another look at my precious little ones!!
Off to fight the (hopefully died down) traffic! :)
2 comments:
can't wait to hear what you are having! And you look adorable--don't even worry about the scale--just have fun being pregnant!
How fun! I love reading your thoughts. Can't wait to hear what you're having!!
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