What a week!

We have had quite the eventful week. Let me just start from the beginning. Monday afternoon a good friend texted me and said that she thought her water had broken and they were headed to the hospital. Yay! Her little baby girl was going to be about 3 weeks early, but we were all excited for her to be born! That evening Chris and I attended our infant CPR class at the hospital. While we were there I kept mentioning to Chris how tight my belly felt, but I dismissed it and didn't think too much of it at the time. We got home that evening and my belly just kept feeling tighter and also started feeling really sore. I was questioning whether or not I should call the on-call doctor. I decided to first call my sister and get her input. She reminded me that I am pregnant with twins and should never feel silly about calling the doctor. So I hung up with her and called the answering service to have the doctor paged. She promptly called me back, I described to her what I was feeling and she said that it could definitely be pre-term labor. WHAT!? Yikes! She told me to empty my bladder, get some water and go lay down in bed to see if I could get comfortable and get to sleep. She said that if it didn't get better or if it got any worse to go straight to the hospital.

Let's skip ahead to about midnight. I had manged to doze off for maybe 30-45 minutes and then woke up to horrible pains on my right side. They didn't come and go. It was just a constant pain. I got out of bed to make a trip to the bathroom and quickly hunched over in pain. It was much worse when I stood up. Needless to say I woke Chris up and told him that we needed to go to the hospital. We quickly got dressed and were out the door within 10 minutes of me waking him. It took us only 20 minutes to get to the hospital and we headed straight up to labor and delivery to check in at registration. After what seemed like an eternity the registration lady walked us down the hall to an antepartum room, gave me my gown to change into and then the nurse came in and took over. After I changed and was in bed she hooked each baby up to a monitor and then also put a monitor on to keep close tabs on any contractions. Both babies heart rates were great and at first she was only picking up on some uterine irritability. The next time she came in she checked the monitor again and it had picked up a few contractions. The on-call doctor had her give me a shot of Terbuta.line to calm down my uterus. The nurse also checked my cervix and thankfully it was closed and did not show any signs of me being in labor. We were then left in the room to wait for my doctor to make her rounds later that morning (this was about 2:00 AM Tuesday morning now) and she told us to try and get some rest. Um, sure.

I was not able to sleep at all and my doctor finally came by around 8:30 that morning. I was so glad to see her because I had to wait for her before they would allow me to order breakfast. I hadn't eaten in over 14 hours and I was STARVING! She said that my monitoring strip looked good, my cervix looked good and the babies heart rates were good. She was very reassured by all of this and said that I wasn't in pre-term labor, but that it was just one of those things. My uterus was just irritated by these two babies it is currently housing. She allowed me to order breakfast and said I could go home after that. She told me to stay home the rest of the week and rest and that I could return to work on Monday. Yay! Meanwhile, I had learned via Face.book that my friend's little girl had made her grand debut at about 3:30 that morning. I was so excited for them! Apparently our babies were just throwing a party for their new friend they can't wait to meet and this irritated my uterus!

Terbu.taline is not a nice drug. I felt horrible all Tuesday night and all of Wednesday. Thursday I finally felt much better, but I had noticed that the babies were not moving around near as much as they had been. So again I started to worry. I finally decided to call the nurse at my doctor's office Friday morning and she had me come in for an ultrasound just to make sure that everything was ok. Thankfully both babies were fine and they've been moving and grooving like normal since Friday afternoon. I think the Terbu.taline must have affected them too. Poor things.

I know this has been a lengthy post but I also use this blog as a way to record this pregnancy and I wanted to write all this down before I forgot. Thank you to our sweet family and friends who prayed for us and these babies this week. Praise God that it all turned out ok and that these little ones are still baking! It just reminds us that everyday with these babies is a miracle and we have to leave it in God's hands and be reassured that He is in control and holding these babies in His hands. My sweet friend, Laura, wrote something in an email to me at the beginning of this pregnancy when we were told the babies might be sharing a placenta (they're not, by the way). I had emailed her to ask for prayers for the babies and she reminded me that God was not surprised by anything that the doctor had discussed with us that day. She also reminded me that God loves these babies more than we ever could. I love that! I think about that truth everytime I get scared or worried during this pregnancy and it helps to calm me down.

I know I owe several of you a recent belly pic. I promise I'll try to post one tomorrow! Hope everyone has a great rest of the weekend!

25 weeks and 2 days

We have made it another week! Yay! Our next goal is 32 weeks. I can't believe that's less than 7 weeks away! Thankfully we're all hanging in there and continuing to grow and do well. I had to put away yet another pair of maternity pants this week. They were pure torture I tell you. I'm now down to one pair again so I think I might have to make a trip to the store again. My maternity shirts are also starting to dwindle. That's okay, though. I love this bump and its constant growth is reassurance that these babies are growing too. :-)

This past week has been a challenge. I stayed home from work on Monday because I just felt like I had hit a wall when I woke up. I've been playing catch up all week. My energy level has just been low this week, but I'm pretty sure that I can blame this on the numerous sleepless nights I had last week. The babies have been moving around a lot all day long. I keep wondering if that has anything to do with my energy level. I LOVE feeling them move so I'll take the low energy as long as they keep moving and grooving in there! But, I would greatly appreciate it if Miss Paige would stay out of my ribs. :-)

My baby shower last Sunday was wonderful! I had such a great time and I got a lot of great stuff for the babies. Thank you Christi and Becky for all your hard work! My shower was amazing!! :-) My best friend and her husband are driving in tomorrow to throw us our couple's shower tomorrow night. I'm so excited!!! It's at one of our favorite restaurants, Escala.nte's. Yum!! I'll try to post pics from both showers soon. I hope you all have a great weekend!!

24 Weeks and 2 Days

I am 24 weeks and 2 days! Yay! I was so excited to finally reach the viability stage for these babies. Now, we of course do not want these little ones making an appearance ANY time soon, but it's just nice to know that we made it to our first milestone. :-)

I had an appointment with my OB on Wednesday. She said that everything looked great and I'm now measuring at 30 weeks! She's letting me have one more 4 week appointment and then I'll start seeing her every 2 weeks. God has truly blessed me with such a wonderful, healthy pregnancy so far and I am loving every minute of this pregnancy. As we were sitting in the waiting room on Wednesday Paige started kicking a lot. Chris put his hand on my belly to feel and she let loose with the biggest kick I had felt! She pretty much kicked his hand off my belly! It was so neat to feel and I love that Chris got to experience that.

Last nigth I was laying on the couch and our cat, Charlie, came to cuddle with me. He layed down to where he was facing me and his back feet were up against the bottom of my belly where Logan is. All of a sudden Logan started kicking Charlie's feet! Charlie lifted his head, kinda looked around and started twitching his feet and pushing back. Then Logan would kick him again and Charlie would twitch and push back again. They went on like this for several minutes. It was so funny! Poor Charlie has no idea that this is just the beginning of the torture that he will endure from these babies! Ha!

My first baby shower is this weekend! I'm so excited!!! I thought I might never get to experience my own baby shower so it feels surreal to think that I'll be attending my own shower and not someone else's. My bosses threw me a wonderful shower at work this past week. It was so nice and so much fun! They really went above and beyond and I am so grateful for their generosity. :-) I hope everyone has a wonerful weekend! I'll post pics of my shower after Sunday!

Amazing Weekend

We had a great weekend! It started off on Saturday with our maternity photo shoot. We decided to take them now for several reasons: we don't know if I'll get put on bed rest at some point, we don't know if these babies might decide to come early, and I didn't want to take pictures and be really huge and swollen. We had so much fun at our shoot! It almost got rained out but thankfully the downpour held off for us. Kristy Owens is an AMAZING photographer who just happens to attend our church! We found each other through the blog world last year and she has been so sweet to follow along on our journey and pray for us. I was so excited that we could have someone who had followed our journey take these special pictures for us. We will treasure these pictures forever. You can take a sneak peek at some of our photos by clicking here. If you don't mind we would love for you to please leave a comment on the blog post. If we get 10 comments we get a free 8x10!! Help us out!

The funny thing about Saturday is that it started off TERRIBLY. For some reason I thought it would be a good idea to get my eyebrows waxed the day of the photo shoot. BIG mistake. The pregnancy hormones have apparently made my skin extra sensitive. The wax ended up burning my skin and my eyebrow area turned bright pink and became swollen. Fantastic! Next I headed off to have my hair cut and fixed for the photos. I went to a salon that I hadn't been to in several years because I didn't want to drive all over town to get my hair done and then have my makeup done. So I went to the mall and this became mistake #2. The haircut itself was fine, but she didn't fix my hair. I could have done a better job at home by myself. I was so upset and angry. I left the salon and immediately called Chris. I then became the pregnant woman standing in the middle of the mall crying on the phone. Oh yes, I did. I ended the primping by going to the MA.C makeup counter in Ma.cy's to have my makeup done. Thankfully this turned out great. Whew! If it hadn't I don't know what I would have done. :-) It all ended up being perfect in the end but my doctor probably wouldn't have been happy about my stress level or blood pressure while all of this was going on.

Now onto Sunday. We had a great time at church, followed by a yummy lunch at Pappasit.os and then we ended at our maternity tour at our hospital. Our tour was awesome. We were the only couple having multiples so the nurse told us to stick around after the tour was over and she would take us up to the NICU and show us around. That one on one time with her was awesome. She was able to give us so much information and answered all of our questions. She was so nice too! She spent almost an hour with us up there and we just couldn't thank her enough. Thanks again, Lisa!

Last but not least, we had our second appointment with the specialist this morning. We were so excited to see our sweet babies again! Logan was pretty cooperative with allowing them to get his measurements but then got stubborn when she tried to get some 4D pics. Our precious little Paige was just a little toot from the get go. She was apparently enjoying her beauty sleep and did NOT want to participate today. She just curled her little self up in a ball, face down and would not move. I think she's going to be stubborn like her mommy. Yikes! The doctor said that they both look perfect and we will go back again in 3 weeks. Both babies are weighing about 1 lb 7 oz now. Yay! Here are some photos from today.

Paige's profile

Logan's profile

Randomness

This is going to be a post of pure random thoughts, but at least it's a post, right? :-) First off I'll be 23 weeks tomorrow. Woohoo! Our changing table should be delivered tomorrow. I can't wait. We already have the cribs put up in the nursery and we have the chair and ottoman. The changing table is the last piece of furniture we'll be putting in there. The bedding should hopefully be here by the end of the month. We really can't decide on paint colors or any other decorations until it gets here. We also have both car seats and the stroller will be here on Thursday. Yay! It's still so strange to walk into that room and know that it's for our babies. Such an amazing thing!

In more randomness, I have something funny to share. Any of you pregos out there or anyone who is already a mom can probably relate. I sneezed really hard two times in a row tonight and it made me pee on myself. Lol!!! I was laughing so hard that I was crying. Chris was laughing too. It was only a little bit, but it was still funny. :-)

I ordered a few different clothing items for the babies. A few of these are things that I had seen before I was pregnant and I just couldn't wait to buy them one day for our child/ren. I'll leave you with some photos of these precious items!

I LOVE this! This is for Paige to wear next year during college football season. You can't see it but her name is embroidered on the bottom left corner of the dress. Too cute!

I couldn't resist! I found these on Et.sy

Aren't these adorable little onesies?! I ordered them from Fai.th Ba.by

22 Weeks

I'm 22 weeks today! This pregnancy is really flying by. I'm so excited to meet these little ones, but I just don't want to miss a minute of this amazing time. I am enjoying pregnancy so much. A few posts back someone commented and asked if we had names that we were sharing for the twins. The answer is YES! Their names will be Logan Michael and Paige Elise. Everyone always seems to have an opinion about the names you choose for your baby/babies when pregnant, but Chris and I love their names and that's just really all that matters. :-)

Things are still progressing well. The belly continues to grow and I'm starting to feel them a little bit more. Our next appointment isn't until July 19th so I don't have any new photos or updates to share just yet. Our dog has discovered my baby belly. She will come up and nuzzle my belly with her head. It's really cute! Paige and Logan are going to love their doggy!

Not much else has changed (other than the size of the bump) since my last post. I'm still craving watermelon, lemonade and ice cold water. I could eat a whole watermelon every single day! I can't get enough of it! My weight gain so far is about 13 pounds. I have a feeling that it's going to really start picking up over the next couple of weeks. That's ok with me. I love having my baby bump!

Here are my belly pics from the last couple of weeks.

22 weeks

21 weeks

20 weeks

Prayer Request

I have a prayer request. My sweet blog-friend, Sarah, really needs your prayers right now. You can click here to go to her blog. Sarah is 20 weeks pregnant with twins and in danger of losing them. Both babies are doing great, Praise God. However, Sarah has been having a lot of contractions and her cervix continues to thin out. She is on strict bed rest and will be admitted to the hospital for bed rest in a few weeks for the remainder of her pregnancy. Please pray for Sarah, her husband and these precious babies. Please pray that God will calm her uterus and that her cervix will stop thinning and become stable. The doctors are hoping to keep the babies in for at least another 6 weeks to give them a fighting chance.

My heart is absolutely broken for Sarah and her husband right now. I cannot even imagine the fear that she is feeling right now. Sarah and I have been blog friends since last year and she is just such an amazing person. She was so encouraging through our IVF cycles and has continued to support and encourage me through this pregnancy. I so wish that I lived closer so that I could go visit her and encourage her in person.

Thank you in advance for your prayers. If you have a moment, please visit Sarah's blog and leave her some encouragement too. It's always nice to know that people care about you and are thinking of you.