yesterday was 32 weeks. 32 down, 4-6 to go (well, that's what I'm aiming for). tomorrow is July. which is crazy. 36 weeks puts us at July 27, and while I'm hoping these guys will make it until 37 weeks or until 8/9/10 (37 weeks and 6 days), 36 weeks is a realistic possibility and we're about to enter the same month that 36 weeks is in. how crazy.
we had another class at overlake last night. it was an improvement over the last class, but still not amazing. the good parts were that we got to take a tour of the laboring room, not the operating room where we'll deliver, but we did get to see the mom and baby room for post delivery and we also saw the NICU. if they're born before 35 weeks they get an automatic minimum 24 hours in the NICU, if they're born in the 35-37 range they'll prob be in the NICU for 6 hours. the NICU was interesting in that they're mid-upgrades. so the NICU we toured was empty and if we deliver before "the end of July" then we'll be in the temporary NICU, not in the one we toured. So, we'll just see what happens. we did get a handout (one whole page) this time, but as I'm scanning it, there was pretty much nothing else fascinating. blah blah blah security system your baby won't get stolen, blah blah... this business about gestational age that I don't buy... tell visitors not to come until after 10am (like any of you were going to wake up that early anyways)... we did learn one funny fact that preemie babies often don't have cartilage in their ears yet. so they're all flat to their heads and you have to sorta peal them away. and that's pretty much it.
whelp, I'm off to meet Mom at InSpa to get a free mom-to-be massage. She gets one free service for a friend a year and it's about to expire so guess who gets to use it? yes. my life is a hardship I tell you. plus, Blake gave me a mom-to-be massage gift certificate for mothers' day and annemarie gave me one for my birthday, so... I am just... relaxed. ah...
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Welcome Riley!!!
Oh my goodness! My cousin had her baby last night. A little before midnight New Zealand time is what I hear, so I think that means June 26 is little Riley's birthday. How crazy is that? My familial pregnancy buddy is no longer pregnant. She is a mom. One might say, well Dana, you knew this was coming, but I'm just in shock. shock and awe. How cool. Congrats Mimi & Mark!
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
class & doc appt
We went to our first childbirth class (the one for multiples) at Overlake on Tuesday. In summary, if you know anyone who's having twins, tell them to go the UW classes. we learned a few comfort techniques / yoga poses (all the yoga poses I already knew though) but everything else was a repeat and it was just less information oriented and more... wishy washy. no slides, no handouts, no table to take notes on if you wanted to. more warm and fuzzy isn't this crazy you're all having twins. so... eh. we would prob not go back had we not already paid for the whole series. but we have, so we'll just see if it improves!
doc appt today went well. we saw dr aryal again (my favorite) and we asked a lot of questions. she says since both babies are vertex we can try for a vaginal birth. the difference in weight btwn the two babies is going to be watched, but she says the girl is right on track, so there's no concern for her health, just that if she stays baby A (which the ultrasound tech said she was really far down so we think she will stay baby A and dr aryal said just feeling the babies and based on where their heartbeats were she didn't feel they'd swap)... anyways, if she stays baby A and if the boy continues to be much larger, then they might suggest a c-section because they don't want her to be delivered and then for him to get stuck on his way out. she also said I have a cervix of steel, which is good at this point, but I do hope it softens up when it's time to deliver! she also said I'm measuring tummy-size-wise at 40 weeks for a singleton even though I've only gained 1 lb in the past two weeks. makes sense I guess since i have over 8lbs of baby in me! she also said I prob have another 10 or so lbs to gain if I make it full term. oh man! that's about it! she told me to come back at 33 weeks (2 weeks from now), 35 weeks, 36 weeks, 37... but, for the time being, I get to keep working, so that's nice!
mkay, time for bed! goodnight!
doc appt today went well. we saw dr aryal again (my favorite) and we asked a lot of questions. she says since both babies are vertex we can try for a vaginal birth. the difference in weight btwn the two babies is going to be watched, but she says the girl is right on track, so there's no concern for her health, just that if she stays baby A (which the ultrasound tech said she was really far down so we think she will stay baby A and dr aryal said just feeling the babies and based on where their heartbeats were she didn't feel they'd swap)... anyways, if she stays baby A and if the boy continues to be much larger, then they might suggest a c-section because they don't want her to be delivered and then for him to get stuck on his way out. she also said I have a cervix of steel, which is good at this point, but I do hope it softens up when it's time to deliver! she also said I'm measuring tummy-size-wise at 40 weeks for a singleton even though I've only gained 1 lb in the past two weeks. makes sense I guess since i have over 8lbs of baby in me! she also said I prob have another 10 or so lbs to gain if I make it full term. oh man! that's about it! she told me to come back at 33 weeks (2 weeks from now), 35 weeks, 36 weeks, 37... but, for the time being, I get to keep working, so that's nice!
mkay, time for bed! goodnight!
Monday, June 21, 2010
31 week ultrasound
Good news: both babies are vertex again (head down)
Questionable news: the girl is 3lbs 9oz. the boy is 4lbs 9oz. although they didn't say it directly, they implied that this is a bigger difference than they would love to see. Previously I'd heard up to 20% difference is okay, and this is more than 20%. So I think they'll be watching the girl closely from now on, making sure she keeps growing. (perhaps she could quit w/ some of the acrobatics and save those calories :)) I'll know more after the appt w/ the doc on Wednesday.
Funny news: the girl has hair! not so much w/ the boy...
Questionable news: the girl is 3lbs 9oz. the boy is 4lbs 9oz. although they didn't say it directly, they implied that this is a bigger difference than they would love to see. Previously I'd heard up to 20% difference is okay, and this is more than 20%. So I think they'll be watching the girl closely from now on, making sure she keeps growing. (perhaps she could quit w/ some of the acrobatics and save those calories :)) I'll know more after the appt w/ the doc on Wednesday.
Funny news: the girl has hair! not so much w/ the boy...
Sunday, June 20, 2010
happy fathers' day!
happy fathers' day to all the fathers reading this (of which, I think there are none... but just in case!)
what did we do for fathers' day? we went to a mariner's game. the full group included peltons and caulleys - bruce, heidi, annemarie (flew up from CA), blake, dana, dennis, aline, evan (also flew up from CA), and darren. it was lots of fun and amazingly, the M's actually WON! crazy!
I believe this link will only work until 5:00pm tomorrow, but here is a little fathers' day humor for y'all.
:)
what did we do for fathers' day? we went to a mariner's game. the full group included peltons and caulleys - bruce, heidi, annemarie (flew up from CA), blake, dana, dennis, aline, evan (also flew up from CA), and darren. it was lots of fun and amazingly, the M's actually WON! crazy!
I believe this link will only work until 5:00pm tomorrow, but here is a little fathers' day humor for y'all.
:)
nursery!
well, I've given up on getting all parts of the nursery clean at one time. (I know, we don't even have the babies here yet!) so just ignore the one crib that is filled with gifts we have yet to write thank you cards for. other than that, it's missing the great chair (which we're not really sure where it's going to go yet) but other than that... ta da!
the room overview pic, taken from the door-ish...
now working our way around the room, here's our little girl's crib.
and the boy's crib (filled with presents)
the door to the bathroom, the closet (not exciting, just doing the 360)
and the dressers. I'm working on some sticheries (with a lot of help from my mom) and we'll take the pics of us and all our great adventures down once I finish those sticheries. there's one for the boy, one for the girl (both horizontal), and there's a vertical one that my mom made for me once upon a long time ago. so we'll frame those up all matching-like and put them on that wall and then fill in with more dots (the dots are vinyl stickers) around them.
oh, also, we'll put a changing pad on the lower dresser and use that as our changing table.
and to conclude with the greatest cute-ness of all... my friend (and godmother to one of our little kiddos) painted these two little elephants and gave them to me at the last shower. aren't they amazing!?!
that's all the nursery-ness for now! almost ready for babies!
the room overview pic, taken from the door-ish...
now working our way around the room, here's our little girl's crib.
and the boy's crib (filled with presents)
the door to the bathroom, the closet (not exciting, just doing the 360)
and the dressers. I'm working on some sticheries (with a lot of help from my mom) and we'll take the pics of us and all our great adventures down once I finish those sticheries. there's one for the boy, one for the girl (both horizontal), and there's a vertical one that my mom made for me once upon a long time ago. so we'll frame those up all matching-like and put them on that wall and then fill in with more dots (the dots are vinyl stickers) around them.
oh, also, we'll put a changing pad on the lower dresser and use that as our changing table.
and to conclude with the greatest cute-ness of all... my friend (and godmother to one of our little kiddos) painted these two little elephants and gave them to me at the last shower. aren't they amazing!?!
that's all the nursery-ness for now! almost ready for babies!
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
30 weeks
Hurrah! 30 weeks! This week we celebrated Jackie's upcoming wedding with a fun bridal shower, and I finished tutoring all my school-year kids. This is very exciting for me, because although everything should have gone well, now it actually has. I had this worry that I would unexpectedly end up on bedrest right before finals or right before Jackie's shower and I would leave people hanging. But now, ta da! Plus, 30 weeks! I'm aiming for 36-38 weeks, so 30 weeks is pretty crazy... so crazy I had to add one of those little counter things to my blog. it counts down from 40 weeks, not 38, but it counts up correctly, so I put it there anyways.
Yesterday was supposed to be our first class of the Multiples series at Overlake Hospital, which is where I'll actually be delivering. But, on Monday they pushed the series back a week. Since I'd tutored my last kids on Monday and Blake's class ended 2 weeks ago, Tuesday night was clear on our schedule, so Blake looked up UW's class offerings and we decided to go to Breastfeeding Multiples. Theoretically we will cover this material in the Overlake series, but what if I end up on bedrest or delivering before the series finishes? When we went to the class I was the furthest along in my pregnancy, so I felt good that we went becuase apparently everyone else is completing their classes much earlier! Plus, let's be serious, blake and I are both knowledge is power and it's better to know type of people. I'm not scared or stressed by bizarre stories, rather I think, oh, and look how normal this person turned out to be. I guess if that happens to us, we'll get through it. So, Blake's been checking out half of the prego books (and even DVDs) that the library system has and he summarizes for me (he's a much faster reader than I am).
anyways, the babies should be 3lbs each now, 3.5 lbs next week, 4lbs the week after that... so they're growing, growing, growing. I am swelling, swelling, swelling, which is a bummer, but to be expected I suppose. the other day we were in the car and I looked down and my ankle had disappeared! gone! on colder days it reappears again, but it's a little crazy! not much else going on, everything's the same, just a little "more" - more waking in the middle of the night, more belly, more swelling, etc. but nothing too bad. next ultrasound is monday, next doc appt is wednesday. hopefully they give me another 2 weeks of clearance to work at that point and we'll just go from there!
hurrah for 30 weeks!
Yesterday was supposed to be our first class of the Multiples series at Overlake Hospital, which is where I'll actually be delivering. But, on Monday they pushed the series back a week. Since I'd tutored my last kids on Monday and Blake's class ended 2 weeks ago, Tuesday night was clear on our schedule, so Blake looked up UW's class offerings and we decided to go to Breastfeeding Multiples. Theoretically we will cover this material in the Overlake series, but what if I end up on bedrest or delivering before the series finishes? When we went to the class I was the furthest along in my pregnancy, so I felt good that we went becuase apparently everyone else is completing their classes much earlier! Plus, let's be serious, blake and I are both knowledge is power and it's better to know type of people. I'm not scared or stressed by bizarre stories, rather I think, oh, and look how normal this person turned out to be. I guess if that happens to us, we'll get through it. So, Blake's been checking out half of the prego books (and even DVDs) that the library system has and he summarizes for me (he's a much faster reader than I am).
anyways, the babies should be 3lbs each now, 3.5 lbs next week, 4lbs the week after that... so they're growing, growing, growing. I am swelling, swelling, swelling, which is a bummer, but to be expected I suppose. the other day we were in the car and I looked down and my ankle had disappeared! gone! on colder days it reappears again, but it's a little crazy! not much else going on, everything's the same, just a little "more" - more waking in the middle of the night, more belly, more swelling, etc. but nothing too bad. next ultrasound is monday, next doc appt is wednesday. hopefully they give me another 2 weeks of clearance to work at that point and we'll just go from there!
hurrah for 30 weeks!
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