26 weeks

Pregnancy Survey Fun!

How Far Along: 26 weeks 3 days

Weight Gain: 17 lbs 

Innie or Outtie: Still hanging on to the innie status.  

Maternity Clothes: ONLY lol 

Stretch Marks: Let's not talk about it :(

Sleep: Is just a far off wish at this point. I accept it as preparation for when the babies get here and that I'll probably not get sleep again for another 18 years. 

Pregnancy Perk: People will do almost anything for me. haha. 

Embarrassing Pregnant Moment: Waddling is the worst now. Gas has gotten better, ahaha.   

Baby Purchases this week: CAN'T. STOP. BUYING. CLOTHES. but that goes for all my family, lol. 

Best quote regarding baby this week: Every single person who tells me that I look small. There's a lot of them actually! 

Gender: Still a boy and a girl :)

Movement: All the time. You can see it from the outside too now!

Food Cravings: Still chocolate milk or milkshakes or ice cream. 

Food Aversions: None. 

Labor Signs: None

How’s Mama? Holding up. My back is getting worse, but my chiropractor is trying to help. I feel like my pelvis, pubic bone, hips and lower back are goners. 

What I am looking forward to:  Next time I get to see them (4 weeks) and getting my Gestational Diabetes test overwith. Pray that I pass!!

Our Baby in Veggie/Fruit Terms: Cucumbers, although they are weighing 1lb 15oz. A little behind singleton pregnancies. 

Milestones: I want to count every week as a milestone! lol. And we got the babies nursery painted finally!!

24 weeks-6 months



Pregnancy Survey Fun!

How Far Along: 24 weeks

Weight Gain: 16 lbs :((

Innie or Outtie: Barely an Innie!! 

Maternity Clothes: Strictly maternity pants. Some shirts, but they have to be huge sleep ones. 

Stretch Marks: Yup. They're really starting to come out now :((

Sleep: Isn't really happening. I'm exhausted, but in so much pain that I toss and turn constantly. The Pubic Symphysis Separation is awful. 

Pregnancy Perk: I'm getting tons of attention, which this Leo loves. haha.  

Embarrassing Pregnant Moment: Gas. Waddling. Animal noises when I bend over. People asking if I'm due any day now.  

Baby Purchases this week: We bought a bunch of clothes, socks, mittens, and hats the past couple weeks. Now we're really trying to focus on the nursery decorations. 

Best quote regarding baby this week: "You don't look 6 months with twins! Your belly is just so perfectly round and smooth. It's like perfect!" - my chiropractor, whom I may have proposed to after that. 

Gender: Still a boy and a girl :)

Movement: Constant!! Baby girl is quite the busy bee and baby boy loves to kick his mom in the vagina, which is the weirdest feeling ever. 

Food Cravings: Still chocolate milk or milkshakes or ice cream. 

Food Aversions: None really, but I haven't tried steak again still.  

Labor Signs: None

How’s Mama? Feeling the time constraint of 14 weeks left until we're full term and the nursery isn't done or even hardly started. The Pubic Symphysis is killing me too, but I'm toughing it out until at least 32 weeks. Then I may not make it very much farther. 

What I am looking forward to:  Next ultrasound to see how much they have grown!

Our Baby in Veggie/Fruit Terms: An ear of corn according to my app.  

Milestones: 24 weeks so my babies are now considered viable babies and could survive outside the womb. 

Registry Fun

On Sunday Curtis and I ventured out to the big city in order to work on our registry at Babies-R-Us.

What. An. Experience.

First off we get the gun and Curtis immediately takes possession. He did not let me have it besides the minute he had to use the restroom. I'm not even kidding. Sometimes I forget that even though we have the step-kiddo, Curtis didn't get to experience all of the typical things with babies/newborns as he was in the military when Baby Mama was pregnant with James. So I tend to let him have his fun with certain things...to an extent. Of course, he walked through Babies-R-Us scanning everything with his "little princess" in mind. I will admit though, it was very adorable and made me very giddy to see how excited he was.

Ok, enough gushing about how cute my husband is....

I went in to Babies-R-Us with a short list I had compiled and the impression that we would just go down each aisle and scan what we need. HOLY COW DO WE NEED A LOT! I'm not going to lie, I got about halfway through one side of the store and was basically overwhelmed with it all. I'm still going back to the registry online and adding more things that my Mother or Sister point out that we forgot. I still feel like we're not getting enough of certain things (blankets, crib sheets, cloth diapers to use as burp cloths, bottles, etc), but I think we won't know until the babies actually get here. It's even more difficult to pick things when I'm not sure if they will be colicky (therefore requiring a certain bottle) or if one will have an allergy to a specific brand of diapers (hence me not buying diapers yet, which kind of panics me). When I stop to think about all of it, I just want to sit down in one of the gliders and have someone else do it for me. Thankfully we're making a trip down to my hometown next weekend so that my Mom can help me put some more finishing touches on it. We still have plenty of time before the baby showers (no dates have been set), so I am hoping we'll get it all settled by then.

In the meantime, wish us LOTS of luck! And feel free to check out the registry, Name: Lindsay Henderson, and leave some comments on anything else I might need. I am totally up for suggestions!!

19 weeks aka HALFWAY ALREADY!!

Pregnancy Survey Fun!

How Far Along: 18 weeks 6 days

Weight Gain: 7 lbs

Innie or Outtie: Innie still, but it's getting shallow-er?

Maternity Clothes: A couple weeks after Christmas I got two new outfits from Motherhood. I can't wear very many shirts that aren't huge or maternity and all pants need to be either unbuttoned or stretchy. 

Stretch Marks: None that look new or are red, but belly is getting more itchy. 

Sleep: Really starting to suck, but I'm sure it's not near as bad as it's going to get! My hips are killing me and I'm having to switch sides every hour to relieve pain. I'm ready for a body pillow!

Pregnancy Perk: Eating like a cow with no judgement, everybody loves a pregnant belly so I get LOADS of attention. haha. 

Embarrassing Pregnant Moment: Nothing really stands out... 

Baby Purchases this week: The cribs and mattresses!

Best quote regarding baby this week: I had a ton of people tell me at my brother's wedding that I am glowing and absolutely beautiful. Gawrsh you guys!!

Gender: We got a confirmation at our cervical length check that I am indeed carrying a boy AND a girl! I didn't get good pics or anything so I'm going to wait until our appt next week to post more about it :))

Movement: Finally!! It comes in waves and they seem pretty active this far!

Food Cravings: Chocolate Milkshake and nasty McDonald's :((   

Food Aversions: Still steak. 

Labor Signs: None

How’s Mama? A bit stressed with bills and stuff coming out of the wood works, not to mention effing taxes, but I'm doing better now. 

What I am looking forward to:  Still the gender scan, even though we know, cause I want more pictures!!

Our Baby in Veggie/Fruit Terms: My app says Mangos (6 inches and 1/2 lb), but I assume we'll know more on Wednesday. 

Milestones: Movement (finally!!), cervical length is great (6cm!!) and we're at the halfway mark!!!