Baby shower & updates

Thought I would catch up a bit here. I am trying to be really good about "chilling" when I get the slightest bit tired and/or the Braxton hicks set in so I thought blogging was a good thing to do! :) To be totally honest, the idea of preterm labor is starting to worry me just enough to take the fact that I am carrying 7+ pounds of person in me and I'm not quite at 31 weeks yet very seriously.

I went to a nursing class and after learning about how it all works I was reminded how much easier nursing full term babies would be than teeny tiny babies. It's out of my control I know, but I want to do everything I can to keep them in until about 37-38 weeks.

We had our monthly ultrasound at 30 weeks with the baby doctor and everyone looked great. Babies are growing at just about the exact same rate and are both nearing 4 pounds. I think Zoe was in the 65% for size and Nora was 70%. So no growing problems...hoping when we return in 3 weeks everyone is still great! They measure fluid and all kinds of things to make sure that my body is still a good place for babies to grow and things were perfect! The one downside was that now we don't have one but TWO breech babies! I told the babies in the shower the night before to flip their little tooshies up and heads down but they apparently ignored their mother. :) Since they are so squished up we were told they were probably going to stay happily breech until delivery and that a c-section should be expected. Not thrilled...but have come to terms. :)

In the middle of the scan they were just looking at normal stuff and the tech said..."Oh this is a good angle for 3d" and switched the machine and there was Zoe's little precious face. She was so squished up....but it was such a wonderful surprise to see that little face. Nora was not as cooperative....but we will try again in 3 weeks at the next ultrasound! :) I thought she looked just like Max, then like a mix of me and Lance and now I am thinking she definitely favor's Lance. I guess time will tell! Eeeeek, exciting!!!

In other fun news, I had my church baby shower a few weeks ago and it was just the best thing ever!! Some of my sweetest friends worked so hard to make it perfect and it meant so much to me!! I cried all the way through church that Sunday completely overwhelmed with how blessed we are. Lances parents came in town that weekend and helped us with some house projects and we had a great time with them. I am so thankful for help because things are a lot harder for me than I anticipated at this point. I would die without Lance and my mom right now constantly seeing things that need to done and just doing it without me even asking. I am VERY lucky!!

Odd things have been getting hard for me. Like church. I don't know why but I am 100% exhausted when I leave church. It's probably all the standing to sing and stuff, but 2 hours at church without fail is much harder for me than a day at work. On the topic of work, I am now officially part time at work and don't work more than 4 hours a day. It's been great, because honestly I'm not sure I could do much more than that. But really my body is feeling pretty good. If I get tired I sit and then usually feel better soon. No big complaints like backaches or anything like that. Smooth sailing so far!

But here is my #1, terrible, horrible, no good very bad pregnancy symptom.....HEARTBURN!!!!! I'm not talking a little burning in my throat. I am talking 100% debilitating horrible burning pain that is now incurable! I take all the medicine I am allowed and it just doesn't do the trick. I was told that progesterone causes the muscles in the digestive system to relax causing heartburn and since I have double the hormones, I am just unfortunately going to just have to deal with double heartburn. But it is bad. I have to go to sleep every night sitting up. If I accidentally fall asleep laying flat, I wake up without fail chocking and throwing up on reflux. I have modified what I eat in the evenings and even stopped eating on most nights by about 5pm. Nothing helps. The worst part is that this is me and Lances last few weeks to sleep uninterrupted together in our room and I have to sleep in the recliner now to avoid (sorry to be gross) throwing up on him on accident. Not a pretty sight. I know people who have been pregnant with twins that never deal with this...but I guess I am just prone to this particular symptom. But again, I'll take it! Its all part of the fun right!? ;)

Other than that I am just stretching away and we are getting so excited about meeting these girls! It's all either of us can seem to talk about. And Jane of course, she is always in our conversation too. We are equally excited about that little munchkins joining the Agan fam!! We held tight at number 5 this month on the adoption. Not that the wait list is all that relevant at this point because we will be putting off our referral for a little while. But no conversation about life with all these girls goes by without talking about all 3 of our girls. Especially on the side of their father. We left my cousins little girls first birthday party and the first thing Lance said when we walked out was, "we need to have a HUGE party for Jane! We will do something fun for the twins but lets save the over the top huge party for little JB (that's what he calls her)". I love it and pray we can keep all this enthusiasm up amidst the exhaustion that is quickly coming our way. That's pretty much all that's up with us.

Enjoy some pics from my shower! I have "puffy" and "not so puffy" days and unfortunately my shower fell on a pretty "puff" day! Oh well. It was just so amazing and we are so lucky! :)