Wow, those babies on the right of this blog are getting big!  I remember when they were just little tadpoles…

I don’t think I posted after my appointment Tuesday, did I?  Well, let’s go back to last Friday (the 13th).  I stopped my IVs that day, because the talk was that they wanted to take my PICC line out on Tuesday.Unfortunately, by Tuesday morning, I was throwing up.   So, the PICC line stays and I am doing IVs every-other-day until we re-evaulate at my next appointment, July 31st.  Sigh.  I know it’s keeping me stable and I need it, but at the same time, it’s itchy, it’s a pain when I need to bathe/shower, I can’t swim and I hate pumping myself full of meds while I am pregnant.

I am just going to bounce all over the place here, because I’m feeling a little ADD in my thought process today…

Today is belly picture day, I’ll have to remember to make Skip snap a photo before he goes out (boys’ night playing poker — they must all really suck because Skip won last time they played!  Ha ha! (Love you, honey.))

What else?  Back pain.  Oooooh, the back pain.  I can’t sit at my computer for more than 1/2 hour to an hour before it just hurts.   An online friend is sending me a back brace (that reminds me, I need to check my PO box) and I hope it helps.  Oof!

Other than that, I’m doing ok.  The babies are really moving these days, and I love that.  They start kickfest when I go to bed and Skip has even been able to feel them, so that’s exciting.  I actually didn’t have an ultrasound at my last appointment,  but we have one on the 31st that will be the anatomy scan (where they check EVERYTHING) and it will be two hours long!  I hope to get some good pictures from that.

I went to a local Mothers of Multiples pot luck yesterday and met a few other twin moms.  It was a small turnout (only 4 families) but one of the couples there had 3 week (and 2 day) old twin boys.  Oh.My.  Nate started to cry (Nate would be one of the babies, mind you) so his momma let me hold him while she ate.  He didn’t want much to do with me and just wanted to nurse off my arm (poor boy) but I think that’s the first newborn I have held in a very long time.  I was actually afraid of him.  Afraid I’d let his head bobble too much, afraid I’d drop him, just generally afraid of him!  I have pretty much always been scared holding other people’s babies, though, so I’m not too surprised.  To see those boys so tiny in their big double stroller…  it’s exciting and terrifying at the same time.  We are going to have TWO babies.  Everyone tells me how hard it is, but they all lived through it, right?

I like to watch all the birth stories that are on during the day and today’s “Special Delivery” (on Discovery Health, I believe) had a twin delivery which was all fine and dandy but the mom had a lot of bleeding and ended up with a hysterectomy…  that part didn’t scare me, it was just her moaning and crying and barfing during the c-section that freaked me out — that is so going to be me.  I’ll still keep my fingers crossed that this stubborn old placenta moves the heck out of the way and these babies come out the door God made for them!  I’d rather have a me-free twin birth than a c-section any day…  eeeps.

Other than that, nothing much going on.  If you get tired of waiting for me to post updates, check out the links on the right.  I add links to other bloggers who I read or who have linked to me (thanks!) and there are many infertility blogs as well as some general good links.  If you have some time, check out “Ellen in Liberia”.  She is the 14 year old daughter of our friend who is currently on a mission trip in Liberia.  It’s pretty remarkable.

All right, my back says it’s time to lay down or stretch or something…  then I need to work.  I’ll post the belly pictures later!

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