It's amazing how much love, responsibility and fear you can feel for these 2 little babies that haven't been born yet.

Please please please

Unabashedly asking for positive thoughts, good vibes and prayers. We love these 2 little boys in my tummy but want a few more weeks before we introduce them to the world. 

2 hearts

2 hearts beating in my one growing tummy...video from our last ultrasound. :) (click on play)

Week to Week

Alright! One more week down!

Appt didn't have 'great' news, but didn't have bad news either. Cervix is at 2.8 cm so essentially no change. Means I can still work! Gotta keep taking it easy though. Go home and lay down right away, keep my feet up, limit my activity...but tomorrow we're at week 26 and that's one more week down!

Just gotta keep them in and nice and safe and warm. :)

Update

hee hee...I know I need to be better about updating our blog. Time is just whizzing by, the holidays were wonderfully busy, the babies have been doing really well, and it's hard to think of what to say or think about what people might actually care about hearing sometimes. ;)

Thought I'd post a couple of our last ultrasound pictures from December. The boys at the time measured 1 lb 3 oz each (yay for equal growth) and were right on track.

Baby A - lower left Baby who we affectionately refer to as Barry or B

Baby B who we affectionately refer to as R or Ronnie

So everything was smooth sailing for quite a while, but we hit a little snag unfortunately last week. Thankfully albeit a little scare and fast trip to Queen's Labor & Delivery, both babies are completely fine and continue to be right on track. Unfortunately the incubator (me) needs to be a little better about staying off her feet and taking it easy to prevent a shortening cervix. Have been trying to be REALLY good since then, and we are now going to weekly appointments to measure my cervix length. Our fingers and toes are crossed for Wednesday's appointment where Dr. will let us know whether or not I need to go on immediate bedrest. Have been spending almost all of my nonwork hours horizontal, and when at work am 90% off my feet, so we're hoping that'll help!

We continue to talk to the boys daily and tell them often we love them but don't want to see them till April. :) Gotta keep them in as long as possible!!!

Will update more soon. Sorry for the hiatus. :)

love, stace

Kidisms

Here are some funny kid-isms from the past couple months about my being pregnant.

The usual:
- Do you have a baby in there?

Slightly more funny:
- Did you have your baby yet?
- Are you having your baby today? (No, hopefully not today) Tonight then?
- My mommy had 7 babies.
- Whoa. Your stomach is BIG. (and then the next day) Whoa. Your stomach is STILL big!
- I think you should name your baby _insert child's own name__ Jr.!

Hee hee...and this one from today which was my favorite:

Kid 1: Is there a baby in your tummy?
Stacy: Yes there is. How did you know?
Kid 1: Cause it looks like you've been eating too much.
Kid 2: What? There's a baby in your stomach?! (eyes big)
Stacy: Yes. It's growing in there.
Kid 2: How'd it get in there, did you swallow it?

movement!

We have movement! We have movement!!!

Someone or maybe both are dancing around there right now! Lots of little fluttering and wiggling going on in there, and got my first firm nudge yesterday while we were driving in the car that actually made me exclaim, "Whoa!" outloud. Little Ronald (Barack & Ronald aka Left & Right) has nudged me firmly twice now and seems to be quite a bit more active them Barack. Not always but occasionally I can tell distinctly which side the movement is coming from. :)

Amnio results soon. Fingers and toes are crossed.