Checking in

As every week passes I mean to update this blog on my weekly progress and every week just seems to be flying by.  Oh well.  I’ve gotta start somewhere.

Here I am at 20+ weeks.  Which just blows my mind.  I can’t believe it’s been almost 5 months.  Everything thus far is going great.  No morning sickness to speak of which I am so grateful for.  Beyond a bout with some back pain and little aches and pains here and there I consider myself very lucky.

Seeing my little babies this past week on the ultrasound was amazing.  Of course I have little worries in the back of my mind whether they’ll find any complications, etc.  But every time the tech would look at each of them and say the word “perfect” all the worries went away.  The 20 weeks ultrasound was long.  About and hour.  They first started started with Baby A.  Oh way back when we were at our first appointment they label the babies.  Baby A is the one that would be the first to come down the chute so to speak.  Baby A was rockin out…like she always has been.  Jumping, flailing, squirming.  She was active.  After the profile they went to check out the goods.  Now going into the appointment if you asked me point blank what I thought they were I would say two girls.  Just in the past few weeks I’ve been getting the 2 girl vibe.  No idea why.  So the tech made her way down and focused in.  My perspective to the screen is way different that hers and Jason’s and sometimes it takes me a while to figure out exactly what we are looking at not to mention I had no idea of what we were looking for.  I just remember seeing the outline of the little frog legs and the tech saying “We have a little girl”.  I got teary.

Then they went up to Baby B.  What a change.  The little one was just laying there all calm.  Long and stretched out.  We saw her profile and while we were looking she took her thumb and headed right for her mouth…already.  That is crazy!  The tech made her way to the goods and with a bit of prodding focused in.  “We have another girl!”  More teary.  Now honestly they could have said anything and I would have been completely happy.  I looked over at Jas and he had a look of shock.  First of all he had very little sleep the night before since he has been battling allergies.  Poor guy.  Then I think the whole looking at the babies always amazes him.  He is so caught up in the whole pregnancy and loves the science behind it.  Which I love how involved and interested he is.  The tech went through and measured each baby.  I had to take a couple of breaks and a few times we had to prod the girls more to get them in the right positions to take the measurements.  Everything looked great.  They both weigh in at about 12 ounces each and Baby A is measuring right on 20 weeks and Baby B is about 3 days behind.  Both great.  Heartbeats are great too…I love hearing them.

So there you have it.  Two healthy, happy and beautiful girls!  My blood pressure is down and right where they want it to be.  My back pain has gone away and I feel good.  I feel bigger each day and I’m trying not to get caught up in that.  Basically I’m just trying to take everything a little pit at a time, day by day.

I’ll have Jas put up some of the past ultrasounds and the new ones.  I hope to checkin for 21 weeks here shortly.

Thank you everyone for all the support and well wishes.  We consider ourselves very grateful, lucky and blessed.