Time To Do A Comparison!

Hey everyone! Having reached 12.5 weeks today, I thought I would compare my prepregnancy [right before I got pregnant with the twins] to a picture I took today!

Sorry the dates are off so bad lol My camera just.. sucks.

My bra size went up, as you can probably already notice, so I feel a lot bigger than I look lol 

Don't be shy to let me know what you think, or if you guys want more comparisons, I think I'll be doing another at 20 weeks of these two and the new one.

Have a great day everyone <3

Cathleen

The Days Wear On

For those of my readers who have children and are housewives, you should know that cabin fever is very real, and effects most of us.  We tend to lose contact with our friends, and we tend to have our lives revolve around housework and keeping our children out of trouble and healthy.  I have made it a goal for this week to make plans for supper or something of that sort with a friend, and just relax, and it has to be child free.  I have never thought that a twin pregnancy would be just so draining, and I guess thatès the biggest different as of yet, and it's severely exhausting. 

I'm not a single mother, but for those of us who have husbands who are workaholics, it can feel like our husbands are big children who have mastered the ability to create mess and clutter.  Anyone who is currently pregnant [for some reason, after pregnancy we tend to forget quickly], just LIVING is tiring sometimes and standing for 5 minutes to clean makes us dizzy and feel sick and weak.  My house has gotten to the point where it will take a good day or two of hard work to get it all done, and the laundry still wouldn't be all done, it can be very frustrating at times. 

Of course, I can't complain, my bills are paid and food is bought.  The chores and child rearing are my entire responsibility though, which can be a heavy load at time.  During the winter, some of us Canadian mothers feel that cabin fever settle in.  I have been told by my doctor that I can no longer push our double stroller through the slushy sidewalks, so I have not really left the house.  I went to a corner store last week I think to quickly pick up some fruit... that's it. 

My personal goals for this week include the following :
1. take a warm bath
2. schedule a supper out with a friend, no children
3. clean the living room today
4. clean the dining room tomorrow [including folding all the clean laundry
5. do some dishes today
6. try to remember to be grateful for all I have, even if sometimes my responsibilities seem overwhelming

Those are the most important anyway.  Let's see how many I can do today, and hopefully there won't be many left by Friday to do.  I will give myself until Sunday to finish though.

What does everyone do to keep motivated?  Sometimes... I feel like it's all piled up for too long and there is no hope lol 

12 weeks!

YAY!  Okay.. so... I took a billion pictures today haha  I'll share!  Sorry if you computer crashes!

Thank you for all following us on this journey, and I hope you enjoy the pics!!  hehe

Cathleen xoxo

Had To Share As I Am In Tears

Last night I became a god mother!  My best friend delivered a little girl last night, and I have been waiting since the first pregnancy test to see this little girl.  I have been poking at mommy's tummy and talking to her even when her mother thought I was a loonie toon!

Life is a wonderful thing to give, and I'm very proud of Sara for all that she has gone through to bring her second daughter into this world.  I got the call last night shortly after 9pm and after I hung up, I had to choice but to cry, I was over joyed! 

I don't know why, but it made me look at surrogacy as an angelic thing last night, as my couple will unfortunately never go through labor together as my best friend and her partner did last night, but instead, will be holding each a leg as their babies are brought into this world by someone over an ocean away from their home.  That moment will be magical, and with every follicle of my being, I can't wait!

An Update... What A Lot To Update!!

Soo... I don't remember the last time I sat down to do this, but I know this is wellll over due for.

We have installed our new computer in the house and that is what I am on, so for now on, you can expect those regular blogs again to update  you all!!  I feel so bad for having not been around the last two months, and I promise to make it up to you somehow!!

OKAY... First of all, I doubt I have my last few weeks' belly pictures up lol  I'll start with 9 weeks

9 weeks

10 weeks

11 weeks

To date, we have had our appointments as such :

January 14th - ultrasound, confirmed twins, was put at 8w6d

January 28th - first obs with our specialist who will be following us through out the pregnancy and birth

January 28th - screening for genetic defects blood test completed, first pregnancy blood test for levels completed.  7 vials total

Upcoming appointments are as follows :

February 18th - OBS and probably ultrasound with specialist

We don't know when any other ultrasounds such as the anatomy ultrasound will take place yet, nor do we know of any other appointments.

I knew I felt them at 10w1d, just wiggles.

To date, I've so far gained 9.5 lbs, which was a loss of 2.5 lbs in 2 weeks-probably due to the severe morning sickness.

First "thud" was felt February 2nd while chatting with my IF over inbox messages.

Doppler was bought February 2nd, looking into newer versions though, more accurate, with a display screen so that we don't have to count the beats per minute and a speaker rather than headset, but we are very grateful for the one we currently have.

Don't be shy to ask any questions as we go as well, possibly updates I missed, or thought weren't as important as the others!!

Thank you all for stilll being here, I love you all!!

Cathleen

6.5 weeks!

Well folks!  We're over half way done the first trimester!  WOOHOO!!

That picture was for 6 weeks!!  Looking more pregnant, less bloated more and more!

So I now have a computer thank goodness.

I've missed my IPs soooo much the last few weeks, and I was absolutely CRUSHED to not be able to take live tests with them over skype like I had planned for.  

Well... I've been intensely nauseous for the last 3 weeks now.  I'm on the verge of throwing up, constantly.  I feel like all I have to do is throw up and I'll feel better.. but I don't, it just never goes away!  I'm getting my dictlecton tomorrow and now I just have to see if it will help.  I have hot flashes all day and all night.  I'm exhausted constantly... yay for pregnancy though!  it's going to be sooo worth it when I push these little ones out and watch their parents with them for the first time.

I am now delivery in England.  So i will have to fly out at 28 weeks with my two children.  I'm reallllly not looking forward to the actual travel [mostly for health purposes of the stress and physical strain of bringing all that over myself] and being away from Josh for around three months.  It will also be the first time I travel outside the country... and it's more than a little scary... let alone to probably have to go alone with two children under 3.  To say I'm nervous is an understatement.  But it makes their lives a lot easier...so on a journey to England I shall go...in exactly 5 months from today!

I'm just hoping that everything else starts to fall into place because just thinking about the travel is stressful.  We are going to try to save up enough to bring hubby over with me at least.  We will need both big carseats, luggage, the two children, me with a big tummy and a diaper bag.  

I'm also looking for health coverage for when I go over ... if anyone has any ideas, plleeeaase let me know!

There is so much to do still!  The part I thought was the biggest part [getting pregnant] soo wasn't.

Alright, so I think I updated for the most part lol

I will be blogging more regularly now that I have a computer!  Just got it tonight!

Will have more pictures on Sunday when we hit 7 weeks!

Less than a month to wait for our first OBS!

Hope EVERYONE had a GREAT Christmas!!!

Cathleen

and I update FINALLY

Just a verrry quick update for now, but I have another belly picture!

Im enormously bloated right now, so hopefully that will go down in a few weeks.

Blood test results were POSITIVE.

So now just waiting to have access to a scanner so that my IPs can FINALLY have it grr  I came to the library so that I could scan it for them and get the money, just to find out their scanner isnt working and paypal needs to process my banking information for 2-3 days FIRST and then the transfer takes 3-5 business days, so up to 8 more business days lol



This was taken on Sunday, exactly 5 weeks... now the wait is on to see if both sacs survived and if there are more than one baby per sac, how exciting!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

I should have a computer right after Christmas, and i promise to keep up better once we doo.

We have to buy a new harddrive for my computer (ugh) and hubbys is finished, so we're buying one second hand for now... and then i have to wait to be able to afford to get the harddrive!

Cathleen