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Things are rolling!!!

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This week I have been doing a lot of walking, not crazy long walks but like, grocery store / farmer’s markets / etc and walking for an hour.  This is really the ONLY thing I’ve actually done to help move things along, because pr.imro.se oil actually freaks me out (I was looking it up online and there aren’t many studies on it, and the one study conducted showed it is possibly correlated with arrested descent, long painful contractions, and use of forceps and complications and eeek). And I just haven’t gotten around to the tea, which also has not been well studied but the studies done show it’s harmless at worst.

Last night baby was doing some crazy stuff in my belly and I couldn’t even sit up properly, everything was hurting and she was shifting and kicking and pushing.  And then I got up to do the dishes before bed and I could suddenly stand closer to the sink than a few hours before. And I was like, oh, I think she dropped.

Today at my NST I was having contractions every 10 ish minutes, plus a bunch of irate uterus semi-contractions in between.  The nurse asked me if I’d had enough to drink yet and I was like yes, it is 11am and I have had 32+oz of liquid already!  I am super hydrated.  My uterus is working working working.  The contractions are uncomfortable but not painful unless baby pushes on my cervix and then I actually have to stop moving because that hurts a lot.

I also had an internal exam and I am 1cm dilated!  Last week I was not dilated at all.  So the shifting and pushing and painful cervix moves is my body starting to do it’s thing.

HOORAY!  Let’s do this!!

My in-laws are coming tomorrow through Monday, and my MIL could stay until Thursday.  So it’s actually a really convenient time to have a baby, seeing as how we could leave at a moment’s notice and not worry about babysitting, and my kids are obsessed with my MIL so they would be happy for her to be the one here while we go.  And my in-laws know all our routines, are comfortable in our house cooking and cleaning and laundering, etc.

Actually, it’s really funny, last time I had the babies on Shabbat when my MIL was here.  And my parents rushed up to be here, and my dad had to cancel the triathalon he was supposed to run on Sunday.  Well, my in-laws are coming for Shabbat, my dad is registered for a triathalon on Sunday, I’m dilating and contracting … Let’s get this party started!!!!!!!!

The only thing is last time there were tornados and thunderstorms the day the kids were born and tomorrow is supposed to be 89 and sunny.  So it’s not TOTALLY the same weekend.

(So excited and terrified)

It’s back!!!!

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I got my period again!  Two weeks ago there were signs I was ovulating and I tried to remember the date so I could see if two weeks later it came and … it did!  I think I ovulated again!

My last period was probably anovulatory, it was the massive bleed from hellll.  The period before that I am pretty sure I ovulated.  So okay.  60 days from the last anovulatory cycle bleeding, I am bleeding again, seems normalish for now.  And signs of ovulation 2 weeks ago.

Woohoo!

Oot and Aboot

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Today the babies and I were out ALL DAY, ALL BY OURSELVES.  It was fantastic.

Mr. Brightside brought the stroller up from the basement and left it folded in the lobby by the mailboxes so I wouldn’t have to carry it up the stairs, which is our new plan for when I want to go out.  It requires a little more planning, no spontaneous long day trips, but that is life with two babies.  Anyway, I managed to get out of the house all by myself!  We live in a 3rd floor walk-up so just getting out of the door with two babies in car seats plus all the gear is kind of a logistical puzzle.

I can’t tell you the sense of accomplishment I had when I unlocked the stroller brakes and we were on our way.  I felt like I could GO ANYWHERE!

The thing that got me out of the house this morning was the October Babies Club meeting in a tea shop nearby.  When I signed up for the neighborhood parents’ club I was automatically put into the October Babies Club because of the babies’ original due date.  Even though they were born in September I opted to stay in the October club because their milestones will probably be similar to the October babies’.  So the club decided to meet this morning and I wanted to go meet other new moms.

(Side note: there are so many twins in our neighborhood that the October Babies Club actually has a subgroup for October Twins, although most of the October twins were born in September.)

I was the only twin mom there and I definitely impressed the other moms, just being there.  Ha!  After I got there I spent a lot of time describing the logistics of my day.  Both babies were asleep at first, which they do to show off to others, but it wasn’t long before both of them were crying and I was doing my little dance of nursing one while standing up and soothing the other.  I’ve never done this in public before but it turns out it’s basically the same as doing it at home.  Except I got some looks from the other moms who couldn’t believe I was nursing one baby with one hand while standing, and using the other hand to soothe the other baby.  Good times.

It was great to sit around with a bunch of new moms.  We got to have new mom conversation, like, have you clipped your babies’ nails yet, and how much sleep are you getting, and how gross is it when they keep pooping while you are in the middle of changing their diaper.  Everyone was super nice and friendly, and the venue was surprisingly large considering the city we’re in and could fit 10 women with their strollers and babies.  Also this funky tea shop happens to have a bathroom large enough for a stroller and also has a changing room in it.  It shouldn’t be surprising because this neighborhood is full of babies, but it is still funny (and the changing table is covered in graffiti like the rest of the bathroom!).

I ended up doing almost a full feeding at the tea lounge.  Almost everyone had to breastfeed their baby right there in the cafe.  Awesome.  And since I had fed the babies I knew I had a few more hours before I had to be home.  So I called a friend who I was going to make plans with anyway, and ended up hanging out at her house with her and her baby for a while (doing another full feeding there, too).

In the end I was out of the house from 10:30am – 5:30pm.  That’s SEVEN HOURS out and about with my babies, taking long walks and being social.  It felt amazing.  Last night I got about 4 hours of sleep, so you can imagine I am tired right now, especially since I didn’t get a nap this afternoon, but I am so excited I had to write it down so I wouldn’t forget this momentous day.

ALSO.

ANOTHER AMAZING THING HAPPENED TODAY.

My wedding rings fit again. 😀

EEEEEEEE!!!!!!

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I’m telling my parents TONIGHT!!!!!!!  We have an appointment to have a video chat at 8:30pm.

And I made an appointment to call my bff after I get off the video chat with my parents so I can tell her, too! (Unless she already knows, I gave her the link to this blog back in June but I don’t know that she reads it)

My hands are soooo clammy I can’t get over it.  I am so freaking excited.  I have been thinking about it all week.  And now it’s here, we’re going to start telling people and it’s going to be SO REAL.

This is totally making my day, because I otherwise feel like SHIT.  This cold is kicking my ass.

I felt so terrible I had to miss our friends’ baby’s bris this morning, which definitely made me cry but I couldn’t get off the couch.  I also had to cancel all of my appointments that I wanted to go to so I could sit on the couch and feel miserable.  Mr. Brightside was very nice and went out to pick up some kosher for Passover chicken soup from the grocery store for me because our apartment has been officially switched to Passover-mode and we can’t eat anymore non KfP things in here.

Another thing that happened today that was cute.  I was sleeping on the couch with a roll of toilet paper (we are out of tissues) and when I woke up Lucy had taken the roll and destroyed it all over the rug I just cleaned yesterday.  That isn’t the cute part.  The cute part is she grabbed the pieces of paper in her paws and tossed them in the air, and then meow/grunted in joy, like she was throwing confetti.  Ridiculous.

Anyway, I can’t get over it, soon we are going to be PREGNANT TO THE WORLD.  It’s so scary and so exciting at the same time.  EEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just have to do a brain dump

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Like I said SO OVERWHELMED.  I took a nap and now I feel a little clearer but I’m still overwhelmed.  Here is my brain dump.  Later I will do a Thankful Thursday post.

  • We will probably tell our family earlier, because assuming there are still two in there at Passover it will just be plain obvious.  We’d be at 12 weeks by then, and I’m a small person.  We were going to wait until 14 weeks but wow it would be kind of hard to keep it a secret … it actually might be hard to keep it a secret sooner than that, as tomorrow is officially 7 weeks (even though the behbehs were measuring at 6w4d).

  • Do not google image search pictures of women later in their pregnancies with multiples.  This freaked me out a lot, and I started hyperventilating a little.  WHAT.  The belly gets SO BIG.  That is terrifying.  Also I’m sure some of them were photoshopped, I wasn’t investigating too much.

  • The reason I google searched that image was because I’m going to be 5 months pregnant in July, around the time my cousin’s wife will be 7 months pregnant, and we’ll both be at my other cousin’s wedding.  I wanted to know how big our bumps would be (comparison).  Also I’m speaking at a conference in July so I wanted to know what people would see, namely my former classmates.

  • Assuming we’re still on track for two by the end of our lease we are probably going to have to leave the city.  *GASP*  But looking in the areas where other young Jews with our level of observance are moving to (generally when they are thinking of or in the process of having a second kid), it looks like we could get a big place with a washer/dryer in the unit for less than what we’re paying for our little place in the city.  Two babies = need a washer and dryer like you need a bathroom.

  • I started a pinterest this morning before the appointment back when I thought we would see just one little flickering heartbeat.  This pinterest is just for baby stuff.  I made a new twitter account just for this pinterest but I don’t plan on using it (the twitter account).  BUT if you want to follow me on pinterest and share baby things I would be happy to connect with you!

  • I decided that the theme for our baby room, should we be so lucky as to get that far, would be monsters.  I hate cutesy baby things, except if they are cute monsters, but not TOO cute.  Also, no pink vs blue.  So that’s basically what I’m using pinterest for.  A lot of that stuff I can make myself, like the paintings and monster mobile and stuff.

  • Two babies is like almost a whole family all at one time.  I mean it is a whole family, but we envisioned ourselves with 3 kids one day.  So we would be 2/3 there.  I only have one sibling, though, so that is my whole family all in one shot!

  • Also, assuming all is going well, I get to do the thing I talked about – go to our fertile friends and be like “OH. … You only have ONE baby?  You should get on that.”

  • Mr. Brightside also said, well, this now leap-frogs us ahead of our friends.  I know, I know, it’s not a competition.  But… YEAHHHH.

  • We went out to lunch after the ultrasound and I got a sandwich and a plate of fries.  The fries and the bread were my celebratory foods.  Although I have decided to eat bread anyway, since it definitely stays down and hasn’t lost its appeal, while most other things I used to like certainly don’t want to go down.  I can stick to whole grain breads and stuff, so that’s okay in terms of my diet and blood sugar.  But really I just want a fresh, crusty baguette with lots of butter.

  • Lots of things to do tomorrow, including: call my ob/gyn and see if she’s up for taking on me + twins; call the thyroid specialist to make sure I can keep monitoring my thyroid regularly; call the RE to request my medical records be sent up to my ob/gyn who is in the same building on a different floor.

  • Still freaked out!!! BUT SO EXCITED!!! But so scared!!!

It’s weird that it’s not weird

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Because of PCOS, I don’t get a period without assistance.  Which means my default mode is no spotting, no period, no nothing, for weeks and weeks on end.

So right now, if I’m not feeling nauseous, I’m basically not feeling anything.  And yeah it’s been a long time since my last period but my cycles are that irregular anyway.  Sometimes when I remind myself that the reason I don’t have my period is NOT that my cysty ovaries are doing their stubborn thing and that I am actually pregnant it totally blows my mind.  It’s like my short term memory is completely shot so every time I realize I’m pregnant is almost like the first time.

EEE!

According to all the “track your pregnancy” things online, today I am exactly 5 weeks along.  When does it sink in?  Maybe after our ultrasound on March 1…