Without a doubt, I now feel like I look mostly pregnant. Had a couple strangers ask me now so you know it must look fairly obvious. You better be pretty darn sure that someone is pregnant before you go and ask them. Years and years ago someone asked if I was expecting and I was totally clueless and said “expecting what?” OH! So that was when I knew it was time to join Jenny Craig. ANYWAY, this time at least the weight gain isn’t all me. I have put on 10kg so far and the doc says my uterus/tummy is exactly the right size for a singleton mom. Good, still not getting overly huge. Still, on the agenda for this weekend is finally some maternity shopping. Can’t live in pjs all the time and I am down to 5 scrubs that still mostly hide things and aren’t tearing at the side seams. The other good news during this golden stage: my plight of the week is simply that I’m losing my belly button. Now, I have always consider my belly button to be rather deep so to think that it will become an outie shortly I’m a little put off. Seriously, an outie! Eww. But really it’s expected right? I know I know, stop complaining.
In baby class this week we learned about natural twin deliveries. In fact, and I was surprised by this, but 40% of twin deliveries are natural. Well there ya go... Labor... ugh, but oddly the whole idea of labour or delivery has never worried or daunted me. I feel physically and mentally up to it. It’s only a couple of hours, right? I know you are thinking I will probably change my tune. Well, yeah, I probably will when it’s the heat of the moment. Until then, I’m pretty much just worried about ALL the stuff to take care of afterwards! And there’s a lot of stuff!
We are slowly making our way through our baby shopping list; ticking off some of the bigger items first. This week we bought our double stroller. Went with a sleek one-in-front-of-the-other baby jogger, because the side-by-side ones just look massive and probably won’t fit through doors. I think I would like to be able to go through doors. We also decided, after much shopping around, on the cribs. Went through an online site in BC that seemed to have reasonable prices, reasonable selection, and reasonable shipping times. Most of the stores we asked about ordering cribs were telling us 3 months! Really? So yeah that’s why we needed to get aboard that train. Anyway, mom and dad are helping out with furnishing the babies’ room. (When I say helping out I really mean “being amazing!!”) and they ordered everything for us and it will come next week... or perhaps the week after if things are a little slower! That’s pretty awesome. In fact I’m pretty excited to start setting up the nursery. I mean I’m no interior designer but I think we can pull something pretty cute off, but not too cute, if you what I mean. We’ll see. Either way, it’ll feel great to get it done. And with every little thing we do or get things are starting to feel more and more real. I know pregnancy is no new happening... haha obviously! But it’s pretty new to me and the thought of carrying living things in your tummy is weird! Now I have definitely felt some obvious movements; just random things here and there, but its kind of cool/strange. I like feeling them move because it alleviates some of the worry that things could be going wrong. My doc says they’ll just get to be more and more in the weeks to come. Good. We went to the Star Trek movie on the weekend and boy did they start moving then! All the loud explosions had them flipping and kicking almost for the whole movie. Probably a better mom wouldn’t have subjected their children to such loud noises. Oh well, I could be doing worse things I suppose, and besides my fat must be some sort of decent sound muffler, one would think.
This week the babies are papayas! They are really going to start growing now, and so am I! The babies' weights could double over the next 4 weeks. Gulp. Guess we'll see how that goes.
PS: still sick with phlegminess on the occasional morning. But the headaches have become much less (probably because I am starting to not be so uptight) and also because girls in my baby class say they take Tylenol all the time. So I am not waiting so long to resort to the drug once or twice a week instead of letting things fester and get bad. It is a big help.
In baby class this week we learned about natural twin deliveries. In fact, and I was surprised by this, but 40% of twin deliveries are natural. Well there ya go... Labor... ugh, but oddly the whole idea of labour or delivery has never worried or daunted me. I feel physically and mentally up to it. It’s only a couple of hours, right? I know you are thinking I will probably change my tune. Well, yeah, I probably will when it’s the heat of the moment. Until then, I’m pretty much just worried about ALL the stuff to take care of afterwards! And there’s a lot of stuff!
We are slowly making our way through our baby shopping list; ticking off some of the bigger items first. This week we bought our double stroller. Went with a sleek one-in-front-of-the-other baby jogger, because the side-by-side ones just look massive and probably won’t fit through doors. I think I would like to be able to go through doors. We also decided, after much shopping around, on the cribs. Went through an online site in BC that seemed to have reasonable prices, reasonable selection, and reasonable shipping times. Most of the stores we asked about ordering cribs were telling us 3 months! Really? So yeah that’s why we needed to get aboard that train. Anyway, mom and dad are helping out with furnishing the babies’ room. (When I say helping out I really mean “being amazing!!”) and they ordered everything for us and it will come next week... or perhaps the week after if things are a little slower! That’s pretty awesome. In fact I’m pretty excited to start setting up the nursery. I mean I’m no interior designer but I think we can pull something pretty cute off, but not too cute, if you what I mean. We’ll see. Either way, it’ll feel great to get it done. And with every little thing we do or get things are starting to feel more and more real. I know pregnancy is no new happening... haha obviously! But it’s pretty new to me and the thought of carrying living things in your tummy is weird! Now I have definitely felt some obvious movements; just random things here and there, but its kind of cool/strange. I like feeling them move because it alleviates some of the worry that things could be going wrong. My doc says they’ll just get to be more and more in the weeks to come. Good. We went to the Star Trek movie on the weekend and boy did they start moving then! All the loud explosions had them flipping and kicking almost for the whole movie. Probably a better mom wouldn’t have subjected their children to such loud noises. Oh well, I could be doing worse things I suppose, and besides my fat must be some sort of decent sound muffler, one would think.
This week the babies are papayas! They are really going to start growing now, and so am I! The babies' weights could double over the next 4 weeks. Gulp. Guess we'll see how that goes.
PS: still sick with phlegminess on the occasional morning. But the headaches have become much less (probably because I am starting to not be so uptight) and also because girls in my baby class say they take Tylenol all the time. So I am not waiting so long to resort to the drug once or twice a week instead of letting things fester and get bad. It is a big help.
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