32 Week Bumpdate

Sorry for the gap in updates. My computer is broken so I haven't had a chance to update my blog. I also don't have pictures of every week, but I'll post what I have.

                                                                 29 week Bump

 

31 weeks

 

32 week bump

How far along: 32 weeks
How far along am I measuring:  39-40 weeks - clearly getting bigger by the day
Weight Gain: 45 lbs - After a rather discouraging response from my perinatologist about my weight gain a few weeks ago (he basically said I was fat), I asked my OB and she said as long as I wasn't vomiting or intentionally restricting calorie intake, she was ok with my weight gain being so low! she was surprised I hadn't gained more!! :)
How Big are Babies: The ultrasound at 30 weeks showed Baby A was 2lbs 15 oz and Baby B was 3lb 2 oz. Dr. said they're growth is very good! The specialist said that he was surprised they're growth has continued following the same upward curve because I guess twins usually start to slow down around 29/30 weeks.  But they're both still right around the 40th percentile. Also, Dr's are very happy that they're growing at the same rate still. They said they want twins to be within 20% of each other in regards to size and our girls are within 6% of each other!  This week they're supposed to be about 3.75lbs each and almost 17 in long!
Major Achievement for Babies: They have hair now!!  From here on out they'll gain an average of .5lb per week (although twins usually gain less than that)
Maternity Clothes: Exclusively
Sleep: Last few days sleep has been pretty good.
Movement: Constantly! Its fun to feel how different their movements are. Baby A is very gentle; just rolls around and occasionally kicks or hits. Baby B flips around like crazy and kicks so hard my entire stomach moves.
Food Cravings: French Fries and Burgers.
Food Aversions: healthy food... yuck!
Genders: Baby A - GIRL!!!! Baby B - GIRL!!!!!
Symptoms: Back Pain, edema, fatigue, shortness of breath. And stretch marks... they finally revealed themselves right around 28 weeks, and have continued to grow and deepen. I'm 98% ok with having stretch marks... its part of being pregnant, but I had no idea they would HURT so much!!!
Best Moment(s) This Week: Baby Shower a few weeks ago was wonderful! I also had my first maternity massage.... hopefully will go once more right before the c-section. We also did our maternity photo shoot and we're so excited to get the pictures :) Oh yeah, and its finally flip-flop weather!! I am SO relieved to beable to finally wear flip-flops. My feet are so swollen, none of my other shoes fit. The girls also passed their first Non-Stress Test (NST) today with flying colors! It didn't even take the entire 20 minutes; I'm definitely a proud mama :)
What am I Looking Forward To: Next Baby Shower is in 3 weeks and I'm very excited! Next ultrasound is on the 23rd and I'm anxious to see them again!!


Couple of other things since my last update...

1. We ended up in the ER, again, last week. I was diagnosed with "preterm labor brought on by dehydration and GI spasms." Basically, I had a 24 hour stomach bug and all the vomiting and diarrhea caused me to have contractions. Fortunately, once my symptoms were under control, the contractions stopped.

Of course, it was, once again, a bad experience. Got another RN who didn't know what she was doing, but at least its over with and both girls are healthy.

2. How you can help us:

We've had a TON of people ask what they can do to help us and say they'd like to bring us a meal once the girls are born. Well, since you all insist on being so wonderful ;) our dear friend Beth helped us set up place for people to sign up to bring us meals. Its the a website called Take Them A Meal (I attached the link below).

http://www.takethemameal.com/index.php

If you follow the link, at the top of the web page is a spot that says, "Find a Meal Schedule." Just type in our last name, and then the password is "meals."

The nice thing with this website is that then people can pick a day that works for them and you can put what you're planning on bringing and see what other people are bringing... because, as much as we love lasagna, I have a feeling we'd get sick of it if everyone brought us lasagna for 3 months straight :)

We have ZERO expectations for people to sign up to do this; however, because we've had so many people offer to help, we wanted a central place to coordinate everything. So thank you in advance!!!!!!

3. Only 5 weeks from tomorrow and we'll be holding our precious daughters in our arms!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!