29 Weeks!!!

How your baby's growing:

Your baby now weighs about 2 1/2 pounds (like a butternut squash) and is a tad over 15 inches long from head to heel. His muscles and lungs are continuing to mature, and his head is growing bigger to make room for his developing brain. To meet his increasing nutritional demands, you'll need plenty of protein, vitamins C, folic acid, and iron. And because his bones are soaking up lots of calcium, be sure to drink your milk (or find another good source of calcium, such as cheese, yogurt, or enriched orange juice). This trimester, about 250 milligrams of calcium are deposited in your baby's hardening skeleton each day.

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The nurse took three hours to get back to me yesterday and when she did it was as if she were reading off the information as fast as possible. I'm not thrilled with her but that happens I guess. For every great nurse there's bound to be at least one that you don't like. Hopefully I won't have to deal with her anytime soon. She didn't even hardly give me any chance to explain my concerns or questions. Sometimes it annoys me when those nurses work so hard at trying to explain why they don't need to see you that they forget to talk to the patient/patient's mother about why they called in the first place. Really... I wasn't wanting to spend the rest of my afternoon up there either. It just would have been nice if you could have talked to me about this since I've never experienced it before.

The babies were moving and grooving though last night! Felt like they were tap dancing in my stomach, or kick boxing. It was a really odd feeling. They are getting stronger and stronger it seems! I'm going to try and work on my diet a little more and see if that helps. The fact that I'm having leg cramps and then these dips in blood sugar makes me wonder if something is a little off in what I'm eating. In fact my morning nausea has returned too... not as bad as it was in the first trimester but still obnoxious. I had oatmeal and a banana this morning.... 15 minuets ago... and I'm hungry again.

Well Abby is on a rampage, I'm not sure why she is so upset but time to go see what she's up to. Have a great day :)

28w 6d

Abby is so funny right now. She thinks that everything is hilarious and keeps looking back at me to see if I'll smile at her. It's cute. She should be going down for a nap soon but if she wants to play I'll let her wear herself out a little more before she takes her nap. Hopefully that will keep her asleep longer. And now she brought me her favorite book... Fox in Sox...

Right now I'm just waiting on a call back from the doctor. I think my blood sugar dropped last night. I was playing Halo with Tom, Mark, his roomie and my brother Michael (online)... I had an apple because I was feeling a little hungry and decided that would be a healthy choice. (and the apples from the orchard are so yummy) Ate that, played for awhile. Had a few glasses of water then saw the little Milky Way chocolate bar sitting on the counter. It was one of those snack sizes from the Halloween bags. Nothing huge. I've really craved chocolate lately and this is usually my way of getting a little chocolate without eating too much.

I started feeling really tired around 10-10:30 so told Tom that I was going to go to bed. I had chased Abby all day yesterday and was feeling worn out. Got ready for bed, took my meds. I 'think' I fell asleep and Tom came in about 30 minuets later, around 11. I was kinda out of it and I felt really shaky. Tom said that I felt really clammy. He was actually the one that asked if my blood sugar had dropped. I thought it couldn't be since I had eaten not long before bed to keep me going through the night.

Got up, tried to distract myself in case somehow I was anxious or something. Couldn't get rid of the shaky feeling but noticed I felt really hungry. I've been waking up at 2 & 3 in the morning just starving so instead of putting it off I got a bowl of cereal and took a warmish/hot bath. Felt better after this, went back to bed and fell asleep. The coyotes woke me up around 3 (really strange) but otherwise this morning I felt pretty good.

After I started thinking about it more I decided I should call my doctor and just let her know what happened last night since it is Friday. This is the 2nd time this has happened but I just thought it was nerves or something hormonal lol.
 The nurse talked to me a little and I'm not overly thrilled with her. She isn't my regular nurse, Brooke is out today I guess. She just made me feel so stupid for deciding to eat a Milky Way bar. I'm not a diabetic, I've never had problems eating anything before or having blood sugars drop or anything like that. In fact, there are many times I've eaten stranger things at 11, 12 or 1am... I eat when I'm hungry. She told me a better choice would have been something with protein, granted there are a lot of things healthier than a milky way snack but it was so good... sigh... I realized this is the same nurse I talked to at 5pm when I had that weird pressure and she told me just to lay down. She made me feel stupid for calling then too.

She said she was going to talk with Dr. H and see what she said or if she was concerned about it at all. I'm sure it has something to do with the fact that this time I have twins and they are stealing my sugars. But I had a good meal of roast, mashed potatos and corn at 7pm. That should have held me over?? I guess I'll just have to wait and see what she says. It's been 2 hours since she called me last, hopefully I'll know before it gets too late in the afternoon. Dr H just might be really busy.

I'll update with more later if they say anything interesting. 

28w 5d

Abby just woke up, an hour after putting her down. I'm disappointed because this means I have 7 hours until she goes to bed... 6 of which I will have her alone. For those of you who wanted some pictures of the ever growing bump I took a few. It's getting harder and harder to do it myself and I have only 2 hours (maybe) all day where I can do things around the house. Hopefully these won't be the last belly shots. Perhaps I'll have Tom help me take a photo of the heart hand on belly.

I feel like a bad mommy letting her cry a bit but she honestly wasn't ready to wake up and I keep hoping that maybe she'll go back to sleep. Should we go to the park today? It's been so rainy that I'm not sure if it will be miserable. AND Abby likes the "chase me mommy" game FAR too much. Baby B is lodged in my ribs and killing me right now. I hope she doesn't stay there long. Last night was the first night in weeeeeeeks that I haven't had to get up more than twice to use the bathroom. Depending on where they are 'sitting' sometimes I'm up more than three times in an HOUR. And I honestly drink as little as possible at night. I used the back massager that Tom's mother brought up for me to use and it was amaazing. Took care of so many of my aches and it eased my sore back some. I recommend it for pregnant women!!!

My mom, Abby and I went shopping yesterday which was a lot of fun. I picked up at least one cute top and a few things for Abby. It was fun to do something with just my mom for a change. Well I don't have much else to report for now, I just wanted to post the pictures up. Our next appointment is a week from tomorrow. (October 2nd) wow October!

28w 3d

Currently I have a four page paper staring me in the face and I should probably be attempting to write this instead of 'playing' online. But the four page paper is driving me a little crazy so I'll try and tackle it a little later. Tuesday. It's hard to believe we are already three days past my big 28 week goal. It's also really hard to believe that I'm only working on my 29th week. In the last few days my body has really started to feel the wear and tear.

Leg cramps have come with a vengeance and I've had two nasty ones and a third that I managed to prevent. The first was so bad I could hardly walk for two days after it. All of the solutions that I looked up I've tried but they don't seem to be helping much. I'm not sure how I could possibly be deficient in calcium with the amount of dairy I eat/drink. Hopefully, this will be the last of them and I won't get any more for awhile?

Officially I have outgrown nearly all of my clothes now. I have 2 pairs of maternity pants that fit (outside of a dress pair) and MAYBE 5 tops. When I was pregnant with Abby I worked up until the day she came so I used my pregnancy kahki's more often than jeans or sweatpants. So now when I try to go places I have two options, one pair of jeans that I feel so hot in or a pair of clothlike capris that hilariously... I can't keep up. It rides just below the bump and so won't stay up. I'm hoping that tomorrow I can go shopping with my mom and Abs to find a few clearance things to wear. Most of Tom's tshirts don't fit me either so I'm seriously getting low.

Well it's 8:30 and I've sent Abby off on a hunt to find her daddy. It's so cute how she loves to find him and crawl up in bet with him. Since her bedtime has switched to around 8-9pm she doesn't get to see him much before she is asleep. I've started working with her on easing back into dairy milk... so far I just give her one bottle in the morning and I think it's been going ok... so far... Rice milk is just SO expensive and it doesn't have as many of the fats and nutrients that her little body needs so if we got her back onto it before the babies come that would be amazing.

Baby B has taken up residence next to my ribs and she sure makes me uncomfortable! I can only sit comfortably for so long before I'm up and trying to 'scooch' her back down. I don't feel them kicking as much but they really get moving and at times you can feel them pressing their heads or 'body parts' out. I think they are feeling a tad squished too. Well I had better run before Abs tears apart my house :)