14 weeks

Pregnancy Survey Fun!

How Far Along: 14 weeks 2 days

Weight Gain: 5 lbs

Innie or Outtie: Innie still...should be for a long time. 

Maternity Clothes: Got four new shirts for Christmas from my parents. My maternity jeans are getting a bit tight though and I had to use the hairband trick on my normal jeans today, so I should get some new pants soon!

Stretch Marks: How Far Along: I say 9 weeks 6 days, OB says 10 weeks 1 day. 

Weight Gain: 3 pound 

Innie or Outtie: Innie

Maternity Clothes: Not since my last purchase. 

Stretch Marks: Yes. I haven't been diligent about using lotion though. Don't ask my why? I guess I'm just super lazy. I'm surely gonna pay for it!

Sleep: Still doing fine, but I think I will soon be off of stomach/side sleeping. I'm also ready for a body pillow!

Pregnancy Perk: Getting out of doing things I don't want to do or anything else I can use it as an excuse for. 

Embarrassing Pregnant Moment: My expanding gut and people commenting on it. Also my pregnancy brain is kicking in and Curtis makes sure to point it out endlessly. 

Baby Purchases this week: None still :( We got the gender prediction, but we don't want to jinx it. 

Best quote regarding baby this week: "TWO BABIES!! But you're so small!!" - owner of a Chinese food restaurant in town. Everyone else says otherwise, much to my dismay.  

Gender: Prediction of Boy and Girl!! Will confirm February 13th. 

Movement: Still none, but I'm getting so much gas that I could just not feel it. 

Food Cravings: Nothing really stands out.   

Food Aversions: Steak. 

Labor Signs: Wayyyy too early. 

How’s Mama? Still tired, still irritable, but feeling great! 

What I am looking forward to:  Gender scan :)

Our Baby in Veggie/Fruit Terms: They say Navel Oranges, but the babies usually measure an inch or so behind a singleton (at least they did at 12 weeks), so maybe 3.5 inches now? 

Milestones: Passed the Nuchal tests and are in the 2nd trimester! 

Long Overdue

I just looked back at my last post and Eeeek! It's been a LONG LONG time since I've updated you guys. I seriously am crazy sorry, but I have some good excuses:

• Stepkiddo was in town for Christmas!! We got almost two whole weeks with him (December 24th to January 4th) and it was great. We also got the opportunity to tell him that he was going to be a big brother to two precious babies. He took it the way I think any other 8 year old would, he's excited but more concerned about presents and video games. Haha. We'll see how he does in the summer when he's back and they arrive. Excuse number one!!
• We bought our first house!! It's super exciting and we're all moved in, still trying to get settled, but we're having so much fun thinking of ideas for paint and how to make this house truly ours. As I'm sure most of you know, the process of buying a house, especially around Christmas, is hectic and took up a majority of our time. Excuse number two!! 

So as you can see, we've had quite a full plate for the last month! Don't fret though, I hope to be back on track as far as my blogging goes. I will have much more to talk about, like nursery ideas and the GENDER of each baby and names and, of course, more dreaded belly pics! (Please contain your excitement). So, without further adieu, here;s an update on our little babies:

• Nuchal Test: Both passed! We are looking at a 1 in 10,000 chance of downs with them. 
• We even got a gender prediction (emphasis on prediction) of a boy and a girl, EEEEEKKKK!!! I'm sure hoping that ultrasound tech is right! 
• We will find out the genders for sure on February 13th. Early Valentine's present for us. 
• My uterus is now right below my belly button. Maybe pretty standard for you guys, but that is just crazy to me. From something that used to be the size of my fist, to now my entire lower stomach? What?! The female body does some serious stuff during gestation guys. 

That's pretty much it for now. According to the doctor, everything seems to be going really well. She was going to take a "sneak peak" at them at our 14 week appointment (this past Thursday), but their portable ultrasound machine was down. She did use the fetal doppler and even the stepkiddo got to hear their heartbeats, which is fast becoming my favorite sound in the world. Next appointment is the 18 week check up (Jan 29th) and then gender scan at 20 weeks. The dang ultrasound techs won't schedule you before then, ugh, even though my doc said we could find out at 18 weeks. Whatever! Maybe their u/s machine will be working again and she'll do a sneak peak. She also plans on checking my cervix length then. If it is nice a long, she sees no reason to worry and won't check it for a while longer? I'm going to need her to clarify when I talk to her next. 

Other than all that, the babies and I are doing just perfect! Like I did before, I'll give you another post complete with survey and belly picture. I hope all of you are doing well and had a wonderful Christmas (or whatever holiday you may celebrate with your family). Here's to 2013 and having another fun-filled year! My wish, besides a continued healthy pregnancy and two healthy babies, is that all of you get your hearts desires. 

Much love and Baby dust!