29 Weeks

Pregnancy Highlights

How Far Along: 29 weeks

Size of Babies: 15 inches long and weighs 2.5 lbs. each.  The girls are each the size of a butternut squash!

Gender: Girls

Weight Gain/Loss: + 8 lbs. total

Movement:  YES!
Food Cravings:  Nothing particular this week.  But my cravings for doritos, and the others have gone away.

Symptoms:  It's getting hard to sit at work, I get really stiff and uncomfortable.  Laying, walking, and standing is also getting uncomfortable. Ha!

My Health:  Good! My appointment last week showed a good blood pressure; I passed my glucose tolerance test, and my iron level has gone back up.

Sleep:  Sleeping is starting to get rough.  I can't get comfortable; My hips and back hurt so I wake up needing to turn from side to side all night long.

Best moment this week:  A good appointment!

What I'm looking forward to:  My next appointment in 2 weeks and an ultrasound before that.

28 Weeks

Pregnancy Highlights

How Far Along: 28 weeks

Size of Babies: 14.8 inches long and weighs 2.25 lbs. each.  The girls are each the size of a head cabbage!
Gender: Girls

Weight Gain/Loss: +6 lbs. total

Movement: Lots of kicks!!  Up in my ribs and pressing on my hips!

Food Cravings: Fondant icing! :)

Symptoms: No energy and tired.

My Health: I took the glucose test last Friday, so I'll get those results soon.  I've been taking an iron supplement, so I'll see at my next appointment if that's been helping.

Sleep: I usually fall asleep on one side and then I wake up on my back.  I've been soooo tired all day, but lay down at night and can't fall asleep....ughh!

What I'm looking forward to:  Doctor's appointment on Thursday.

27 Weeks

Pregnancy Highlights

How Far Along: 27 weeks, 2 days

Size of Babies:  14.5 inches long and weighs about 2 lbs. each. They are each the size of a head of cauliflower!
Gender: Girls

Weight Gain/Loss: +6 lbs. total

Movement: Oh yeah!  Crazy kicks and lots of rolling around!

Food Cravings:  Grape juice
Symptoms: I am feeling stretched to the max already!  Bring on the coco-butter!!

My Health: Blood pressure was a little higher at the last appointment, but still good.  My iron is low and I have started taking an iron supplement.

Sleep: I am really having a hard time getting comfortable at night.  I toss and turn from side to side all night long!  And get up once or twice.

Best moment this week:  Hearing the girls' heartbeats.

Busy Doctor's Appointment

I had a doctor's appointment on Thursday with Dr. Hjort.  They were extremely busy in the office that day!  We got there and made our last payment (Woohoo!) and then I was taken back with the nurse pretty quickly.  Here are a few of my stats:  Weight: 149.5 & Blood Pressure: 122/78.  Blood pressure was a little higher than normal...but still okay.  After a finger prick, they said that my iron was low so I was given iron supplements to take everyday. 

The office only has one exam room with an ultrasound machine in it, and that day it was full, so the nurse put me in a different room.  She said I would probably be moved once the other room opened up because I am having twins.  I sat on that exam table for a good HOUR until Dr. Hjort finally came in!  I was sooooo uncomfortble....I would've much rather sat in the waiting room.  But when she came in, I could tell that they were busy and in a hurry.  She asked about symptoms, we discussed heartburn and signs to look out for in case of preterm labor.  Then she measured my stomach, made a funny face, and measured again.....but didn't say anything.  She used the dopler-thingy to check the heartbeat....and said "The heartbeat sounds good" and then put it away.  I asked her if she heard both heartbeats and her response was "You're having twins? No wonder you are measuring so big!"  I was only 26 weeks and I measured 34 weeks!!  And she thought I was only having one baby! HAHA!  I guess she was too busy to glance through my chart before she came in!

So, both heartbeats were checked and they sounded good.  She could tell that at least one baby was head-down.  I got a script to go take the glucose test this week....yummy!  And I am now going for doctor's appointments every two weeks. 

26 Weeks

Pregnancy Highlights

How Far Along: 26 weeks

Size of Babies: Books say the girls should weigh about 1 2/3 lbs. each (the ultrasound this week revealed that they are weighing almost 2 lbs. each).  They are about 14 inches long and each the size of a hothouse cucumber.
Gender: Girls

Weight Gain/Loss: +6 lbs. total

Movement: Oh yeah!

Food Cravings: This week I was thrilled to see that the Caramel Apple Milkshake is back at Steak N Shake.....I've already had 2!!

Symptoms: Headaches and feeling yucky.  Tired, tired, tired!

My Health: Blood pressure is good.

Sleep: I still have some crazy and vivid dreams!  I have a hard time falling asleep, but that's mainly because of the lists of things to do running through my head! 

Best moment this week: Seeing the girls on the ultrasound.

What I'm looking forward to: The day when our house is clean and organized!!  Ha!

Ultrasound Run-Around

On Thursday, I had an ultrasound scheduled at Winnie Palmer for 10:30am.  This ultrasound was for a growth scan of the twins.  Dr. Wood said that we could go to either Lake Imaging or Winnie Palmer.  We chose Winnie Palmer because we "thought" we liked it there.  It was the same co-pay, a doctor comes in to talk to you during the ultrasound, and they give you a CD with the images.  We didn't mind driving to Orlando for a better ultrasound.  So Dr. Wood set up the appointment with Winnie Palmer, but also gave me a script for Lake Imaging just in case.
 
Well, we get to our appointment at Winnie Palmer RIGHT on time, not early, because let's face it...we are never early.  We go straight back to the office that we had gone to before.  They tell me that my appointment is actually with a different department/office, so they sent me up front to Admissions.  Right away, that seemed wierd.  Why was this appointment different than the first two?

After a while of waiting, they call us into the office to go over the insurance and payment.  We were told that this appointment was going to cost us, not a $25.00 co-pay, but a $300.00 deductable.  YIKES!!!  We couldn't understand why this appointment was different, and the woman helping us didn't know either....she said she would have to research it.  So in order to keep the appointment, we would have to risk it, and be billed with whatever it was.  No, thank you!

We decided to cancel the appointment.  That bummed me out!  I liked Winnie Palmer a lot, but not enough to pay $300.00 when we could pay $25.00 at Lake Imaging.  So we called Lake Imaging and got a 4:00pm appointment.  Luckily, I still had the script from Dr. Wood.

My appointment went well.  The thing I don't like about Lake Imaging is that you have to drink 2 liters of water an hour before your appointment so that your bladder is full.  I am a BIG water drinker, so drinking the water wasn't the hard part.....it's the full bladder part that's not fun!  It makes the appointment really uncomfortable and the whole time I'm thinking about how much I have to go the the bathroom! 

Now for the best part.....the results. The girls measured just about the same size, which is great news.  They are growing at the same rate.  Baby A was a little bit bigger than Baby B. (Thursday - I was 25 weeks and 5 days.)  Baby A measured to be at 26 weeks and weighs 2 lbs.  Baby A measured to be 25 weeks 4 days and 1 lbs. 14 oz.   Everything looked great!  

So at almost 26 weeks, I have 4 lbs. of baby in my belly......with a lot more growing to do!!!