Pregnancy: Week 8

I'm 9 weeks pregnant today! Yay!

Here's how Week 8 has been:

• I'm sounding like a broken record with this, but right now it's still all about pretty terrible nausea, a crazy sense of smell (which is definitely contributing to the nausea), and fatigue. I've pretty much given into the fatigue vs fighting it...figure my body is trying to tell me something...and have been napping every day
• Work can be really challenging when I'm feeling so sick, but I somehow seem to be getting everything done
• Boobs are bigger and sorer. My belly seems rounder, as well
• I had another really bad headache this week...ugh
• Started reading specifically about twins this week, and am feeling a little overwhelmed by: a) how much I am supposed to eat (not worried about weight gain...it is what it is...but how am I supposed to get that much food into my body? Especially when food is the enemy right now? I can scarcely remember what it was like to actually WANT to eat something.) And b) the possibility of bed rest. And c) the reality of having two infants. I know it's going to work out and I don't even need to worry about anything but eating and resting at this point, but I'm still a little bit in the "terrified I'm having twins" camp. I just need some more time to get used to the idea, I know...
• My husband and I are talking about the babies a LOT...a lot more than previous weeks...and we were going to wait until after the first trimester was over to do that, but we just can't seem to help ourselves. My husband's making me laugh so much over the babies, too...silly things like we were out to dinner and he drew what looked like two manatees on a napkin with talk bubbles and the babies saying things to me...I don't know, something about the babies-as-manatees, I just could not stop laughing. This is turning out to be a very happy time for me and my husband...we're making lots of plans big and little for the future and how we will raise our babies...it's really lovely. He's been so great about me being sick, too. My mom was saying she'd expect a lot of guys to be like, "You wanted to be pregnant...suck it up." But my husband's not like that at all. He listens to me complain about being sick (although I'm trying really hard not to talk about it.) And he does what he can to help, which includes making dinner and doing the dishes most of the time. He's just being so wonderful...

Week 9 is the week we lost our last baby back in April (although we didn't find out until 11 weeks). I have an appointment next Tuesday (a week from tomorrow) to check in on the babies...hopefully they are still there and doing well! In the meantime, just trying to stay calm and positive (and to tell you the truth, with morning sickness and exhaustion, there isn't room for a whole lot of panicing, which I guess is something to be grateful for.)

Hope everyone has a lovely week. :)

XOXO

8 Week 2 Day Ultrasound: Everything's Looking Great! :)

Hi Everyone!

So I had my second ultrasound today...we had to wait about 45 minutes in the waiting room...I was soooooo nervous! But everything is looking great!

Both Baby A and Baby B are measuring right on track.

And have good, strong heartbeats.

And my OB says at this point there is nothing to worry about.

She also said as of today we're about 85% safe as far as not losing these babies.

Also that she sees me as just a normal twin pregnancy...does not see me in the high risk category, which makes me feel so good. I'm going to get to be a normal pregnant girl! (I hope!)

My next appointment is 9/13, and I'm going to be trying sooooooo hard just to trust that everything is OK in there between now and then. I am feeling better after today's appointment, even though last time I was pregnant (and miscarried) everything looked perfect at this point, too. But even so, each hoop we successfully jump through makes me feel like we might actually make it this time...that there might actually be real live babies at the end of all this.

XOXO

Ultrasound #2

Baby's on the right in the black circle. Little white circle to the left is the yolk sac. So amazing we get to see this...my mom told me today she didn't have a single ultrasound the whole time she was pregnant with me.

Wow, 8 weeks 6 days and we have what kind of looks like a little baby in there! (Versus the little round blob we saw on our first ultrasound.) According to the doctor everything is looking really good. I was so relieved to see the good, strong heartbeat. This is feeling more real every day.