Almost 34 weeks!

Well we have almost made it to another really important milestone...34 weeks! Tomorrow I will be at 34 weeks which is a huge accomplishment! My doctor continues to be surprised by how well I am doing. The babies are looking awesome, growing like little peas in a pod. I am still on modified bedrest because they want me to try to go as long as possible and the more I am up and moving the more that I contract.
SO you may be wondering...what does one do to pass the time for weeks on end? And the answer is....puzzles, lots and lots of puzzles and movies and reading, and hanging out with my family and friends. Jeremy and I celebrated our anniversary early this year because he has to work this weekend. We got all you can eat crab legs and gelato!!! It was quite the little outing for me. We have been married for 5 years and gone through so much together. We had such a great time celebrating our life and we are right on the verge of such a big life change.
34 weeks...I am so thankful for having a healthy pregnancy and healthy babies!!
Who's belly is bigger?
I think I beat the watermelon on this one!
At this point I have had more grumpy days than usual just because I am barely sleeping, so uncomfortable, heartburn is raging, contractions are painful, nothing fits, and I waddle everywhere I go...but there is a light at the end of the tunnel. We scheduled a csection for September 22nd (38 weeks) if I make it that far, our babies will be here by then for sure!!

2nd Goal!

We will be at 32 weeks tomorrow!! That was the second goal my doctor gave me. We are breathing a huge sigh of relief today. We had a perinatologist appointment today and they measured the babies and checked them out. They are still growing, both head down, looking great, and no concerns from the doctors!! Ellie is 4 pounds 1 oz and James is 3 pounds 11 oz. I can not express how thankful we are to have 2 healthy babies and to have gotten them this far!! Now we need to make it to 34 weeks and anytime after that the babies can come with a lot less worries about preemie issues. All this modified bed rest has been worth it!
Talking to Oscar about the babies! When will they arrive?? You can post a guess and I will add it to the calendar. Whoever is closest gets a gift card in the mail!

1st Goal

Well we made it to our first goal of 30 weeks!! It has been 1 month since preterm contractions started and I have been on modified bed rest. I CAN NOT believe how big my belly is getting!! Check it out!
The stares I get when I do venture out are priceless!! Also in the 3rd trimester I have noticed heightened emotions aka lots more crying about things and more late night cravings like the one below...


Mmmmm s'mores brownies so delicious! So glad I have a hubby that will stay up late making me ridiculous things. HE IS THE BEST!

Update

It's been a fun couple of weeks with lots of things to look forward to. Kinsey, Melissa, and Rachel threw me a lovely shower! It was so much fun and so so cute!!

I am at 27 weeks in this picture, just relaxing on the couch enjoying all the friends and family who came.

Everyone painted the cutest onesies and bibs.
Rae made the cutest diaper cake too!

These are a few pictures of the nursery in the making. My aunt came up and helped organize and wash a bunch of baby things, it was a huge help! My grandma in California is an incredible artist. She painted a mural on a canvas of the characters from the series "if you give a mouse a cookie." It turned out soooo cute! "It's cheerful, and bright, and a celebration of the babies,"she said was her inspiration.

Both the cribs are white--the girls bed is pink, the boys is green. Most of the accents in the room are green with a little bit of pink here and there. We didn't want to make it too girly.


Jeremy built these shelves in the closet so we could have more storage and made the hanging rack from one into two so that we could have a boy and girl rack.
The picture frames on the canvas are for putting pictures of the babies each year they grow.
This weekend my mom, shanna, sarah, and Jeremy's mom threw a combined shower for me. It was so much fun to see family and friends from all over. I really appriciated everyone who made such a long drive from Colorado Springs and Woodland Park.
My sisters Sarah and Shanna made the cupcakes and the fondant flowers. Soooo cute!
Everyone assembled day packs for Jeremy and I so we can grab them and throw them in the diaper bag and be ready to go! They will be a huge help.


Dad was busy making delicious frozen drinks for everyone because it was almost 100.






The showers were such a huge blessing!! We got so many wonderful gifts for the babies. Thank you to EVERYONE for being so wonderful and supportive!! Unfortunately during the shower the contractions started and got worse and worse and I ended up here.
Only to be sent home hours later because even though they were 1 minute apart and painfully uncomfortable they didn't change my cervix. This is just the story of my life right now...rest rest rest.

Scary!

Well we had a little bit of a preterm labor scare that started on Thursday. I went to lunch with some of my girlies from college and had a great time. When I got home I felt really tired and laid down on the couch to talk to Jeremy. I started having contractions at 3:23 but they were like 20 minutes apart. We called the doctor because something just didn't feel right about it and we didn't want to wait until after the office closed. They told me to lay down drink 4 glasses of water wait and hour and they would call back. If they stopped great, if not I would need to go to the hospital. Well they didn't stop actually they got way worse. They were 2 minutes apart and intense. I started crying because I had just gotten to 26 weeks that day and it was just too soon for these babies to show up. We haven't even bought any diapers yet!! Jeremy loaded me up in the car and took me to the hospital. We went straight to labor and delivery and got hooked up to all the monitors. The babies did not like all those bands and monitors and would kick and push away from them every time. They were SUPER active (I think it was because they didn't like all the contractions either). The contractions got to one minute apart. They checked my cervix multiple times and felt that it wasn't changing enough to warrant staying in the hospital. They put me on some medication to take away some of the intensity of the contractions and sent me home. We got home at 12:30pm. The next day we saw our doctor and he checked my cervix again and saw that it was starting to funnel. He also said it had changed over a cm from two days ago at our last visit. He put me on another drug to try to stop the contractions completely and put me on restricted activity which means that I can get up to go the bathroom but that is it. I was instructed to lay on my left side until Tuesday. Thank goodness for Jeremy and my wonderful family! They kept me sane with movies, puzzles, food etc. We had another appointment yesterday and the contractions still had not stopped but they have lessened in intensity and they have not changed my cervix any more!! That was really good news! The doctor said that I am the size of a woman carrying one baby at full term right now and my uterus is reacting like it is at full term because it doesn't know there are 2 babies in there!! Unfortunately, this means I can not travel at all now so we had to cancel my baby shower in the Springs that Dianna was going to host. We are combining it with the one in Denver my mom is hosting because I am allowed to go to that one if I take it really easy! I am allowed to get off the couch a little more now, sit up, do very limited things around the house (no dishes, cooking, laundry, exercise, grocery store, shopping, etc, etc) I will stand on my head for a week if it will make any difference! I just want these babies to keep cookin'! Right now our goal is to get to 30 weeks and then 32, then 34, etc... I had the most awesome ultrasound tech take some profiles of the babies and a funny one at the end! They are so cute and still doing great in there! Hold on tight James and Ellie it's not time to come out yet!

Our baby boy's profile with his arm up.


Baby Ellie's profile--she is always so much harder to get pictures of! The boy's little bottom!! How funny!!