Saturday, November 20, 2010

Twins

So, as most of you know, I am 20 weeks pregnant with twin boys! Of course, this was quite a shock a few months ago when we found out but we are nothing but thrilled. We went to the "BIG" anatomic ultrasound yesterday, which lasts much longer when there are 2 babies to evaluate. So, we were there for almost 2 hours. By the end of it, we had seen all of Baby A and Baby B...and they are both doing wonderful and are perfectly healthy! My cervical length was also good, and I was very relieved to hear that. As you may remember, I was put on bed rest at 28 weeks with Calan because of my cervix shortening (thinning) prematurely. I do NOT want this to happen with these 2 fellas, so I am tackling this pregnancy very differently than the first. While pregnant with Calan, I still worked out 5 days a week, traveled vigourously for work and pretty much led my same ole normal life (with few modifications). This time around, I have not exercised since early in the 1st trimester...I was not feeling well until around 18 weeks and now that I'm feeling better, if I stand for too long I basically feel like I need to sit. Obviously, everything is much more accelerated, so I really feel like I'm 30 weeks pregnant, when I'm only 20 weeks along. I've not had much of an appetite still, and have only gained about 6 lbs at this point, but I feel confident that the babies are getting what they need after seeing them in there yesterday.