Pregnancy: Week 22
Hi Everyone! Happy Monday!
I'm 23 weeks pregnant today! I always thought 24 weeks was viability (when if the baby is born it has the possibility of living), but what I was reading yesterday indicated that 23 weeks is the cutoff. I also read that the babies (and my question is: therefore me?!?) are going to DOUBLE in size in the next month...eek! And also I've been looking at old posts from Girl's Gone Child, who recently had twins, and she's saying that at 23 weeks with twins she was the same size as full-term with one baby. All very interesting...
Anyway, here's how the last week has been:
- Lots of movement from the babies, which is cool. My husband still hasn't felt anything for sure...isn't it about time for that to happen?
- Lots of progress made in terms of getting ready for the babies. My husband is on a MISSION to get the big parts of the nursery put together...I think it's because he's afraid that the day may come sooner rather than later when I'm not very mobile anymore. So in this past week we have emptied the nursery of my husband's things (we're converting what was once his office), picked up/ordered all furniture and the rug, picked out and started on curtains, finished receiving blankets (I'll post pics sometime this week!), pretty much finished a registry, picked out wall art (that was a negotiation for sure, but I think we're both really happy with where we ended up), decided to start with disposable diapers and maybe (probably?) switch to cloth when we move, finalized the babies names (although I want to sit with them a little while before sharing). Whew! We have been busy! So fun, though, and so fun to do all this together...my husband is very involved
- Nausea's still an issue, but pretty well controlled with Zofran. I'm going to finish my current Zofran prescription (5 pills left) and then try again without it. My husband says 1 baby = nausea for 12 weeks (first trimester), so 2 babies = nausea for 24 weeks...he thinks I'll be done after this week...I sure hope he's right
- Heartburn is starting to become a little bit of a problem. It's not terrible, but not fun either. I was hoping to avoid that particular pregnancy symptom...
- Backache (mid-back) was a real problem at the beginning of the week, not so much anymore. It's there, but pretty minor (vs so bad I want to cry, which is where it was when the week started)
- And insomnia, oh, Lord, is it bad. There's been a couple nights this past week I've been up literally all night long. I'm pretty comfortable/OK during the day, but at night everything I'm feeling seems to be magnified (nausea, backache, heartburn, etc), plus I'm feeling a lot of stretching in my belly, which doesn't hurt, but isn't particularly comfortable either. Plus we've been doing so much baby stuff...my mind has been racing. Trying to just be OK with the sleeplessness instead of fighting it/getting mad about it. Because I work from home, unless I have calls I need to be on, I can sleep during the day when I need to so I'm just kind of letting my sleep/wake schedule go where it wants to go. I've had trouble with insomnia for years anyway...was talking with my BFF last night and she said being up at night to nurse the babies isn't going to faze me...I'm up all hours of the night as it is...hope that she is right :)
- Overall feeling very happy and peaceful. I have a little fear now that we are making actual physical changes (eg nursery furniture) that I am tempting fate and something will go wrong. But everything's gone so well so far (knock on wood)...just trying hard to be hopeful that things will continue to go along without a hitch, you know?
Hope everyone has a lovely week.
XOXO