The babies are continuing to grow! We had another anatomy scan last Thursday, just one day before reaching 32 weeks and got confirmation again that we have some huge babies growing! Landon (baby A) is weighing in at approximately 4 lbs 10 oz and Parker (baby B) is weighing in at approximately 4 lbs 4 oz. Crazy! Landon is head down, as he pretty much has been the whole time, and Parker is breech (head up, right at Landon's feet and I'm sure getting some kicks to the head). Just a note: 5 weeks previous to this appointment, Landon was weighing in at 2 lbs 11 oz and Parker was 2 lbs 8 oz. So clearly Landon is our big boy!
We also started monitoring at Dr. G's office, our perinatalologist. We did 1 a week for 2 weeks and then this coming week we start monitoring twice a week. Monitoring is basically having them hooked up to fetal monitors to measure their heartbeats, movement, etc. So far we have been very lucky and have had good readings in about 30 or so minutes, but the nurse did warn us with twins, they could take up to 2 hours if necessary. Luckily, the boys are very active in the afternoons when we happen to have our appointments scheduled!
We also welcomed my bestie's new baby girl on February 12th! Baby E is absolutely beautiful. I think the boys are unsure about her because whenever I hold her, they punch and kick the crap out of her from underneath. Little boogers! LOL! I am sure they will all be best friends though! They have no choice though right?! ;)
At the end of January, I was also lucky enough to have my wonderful friends throw me an amazing baby shower here in Vegas. It had a huge turnout and it was a great time. I have to admit, all the gifts and the opening of them all, was a little overwhelming, but I am so blessed to have so many wonderful people in my life! We were very fortunate to get so many items for the boys/nursery/etc. that we needed, I couldn't be more grateful! And the theme was fabulous. My friends did a Dr. Suess theme, specifically focusing on Thing 1 and Thing 2! It was too cute! Loved it! It was also a great shower because my sister, mom, and mother-in-law all made it in for the weekend! So wonderful!
Phew! A lot has happened. An update on my stats...as of Feb. 14 I was weighing in at 181 lbs. I measured my belly and it was measuring at exactly 41 inches. Wow! LOL! We have another appointment with our OB, Dr. M this Tuesday. Hopefully we have a little more of an idea as to when these 2 boys will be joining us. At Dr. G's appointment last week, we were informed that my placenta finally moved away from my cervix (which we've had since our first appointment with Dr. G, called a Placenta Previa, and then moving to a partial). What does this mean? This means that the possibility of having a vaginal birth (sorry if TMI) is more of a possibility. It's crazy because up to this point, I always thought because of the placenta's position that we would only be able to have a c-section and now...who knows. I am hoping that Dr. M gives us some insight this coming Tuesday during our appointment.
With all that said, we probably have about 5-6 weeks left, and that is because Dr. M won't let me go over 37 weeks with twins. So...I promise I'll update after this week's three appointments! Now, how about some pictures?!
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Bella! First, congratulations on your double blessing! I'm so glad you found my blog, and I'll be sure to follow along with your journey from now on.
ReplyDeleteAs far as bottles for us, we definitely did some trial and error. The hospital sent us home with some awful way-too-large nipples and standard tiny bottles. I can't believe they let newborns (premies even) use those nipples.
We had registered for Dr. Brown's because I read good things. We also had medela bottles because of the pump I had purchased. We started out with the Medelas but Grace's gas was so bad that we decided to try the Dr. Browns and it was much better (not miraculous or anything, but better).
Just an FYI- Dr. Browns have a lot of parts to wash, but I think they're worth it (and a lot of mom's seem to agree). We ended up buying 16 of each size, the 4oz bottles and the 8oz bottles. We used the 4oz for Caleb for about two months and just switched Grace to the 8oz about a week ago. We bought so many (after about three weeks) because we were SO tired of having to wash bottles multiple times during the day. We were feeding them 8 times in 24 hours for a while, so this way we would only wash bottles once per day.
I use the Medela Freestyle pump and I have something like 16 of those bottles as well, because I was pumping 8 times per day for a while and didn't want to wash those more than once.
So, whew, that's a lot of bottles. But it was way worth it to not have the chapped hands and extra time spent at the kitchen sink!!!
Please let me know of any other questions you ahve. I felt SO nervous about all of this stuff before the littles arrived, I wish I would have asked more questions! I'm an open book :)