Will I ever have these babies, will we be ready for them and jus
At the end of my 5th month and starting week 22!! More than half way and finally I'm able to feel the babies move around. What a strange and wonderful sensation! I've now had 4 sonograms and we've gotten to see the babies' heartbeats and watch as our doctor measures each one. We just love those sonograms - it's so much fun seeing how much the babies have grown! We've had the opportunity to videotape the sonograms, which is great being able to pop that in anytime and see the babies.
At the end of 19 weeks my doctor finally started laying down some ground rules of things I'm not able to do. NO: standing for extended periods, lifting, pushing, pulling, reaching or anything that will put pressure on the muscles of my stomach! Yikes that is going to put a real strain on my lifestyle! I quit work right before my doctor told me all this - women's intuition? No, I was just getting tired and it was already getting hard to walk a lot.
When we were 22 weeks along we found out that one of the twins was a boy! We had discussed between us if we wanted to find out the sex of the twins. We decided no, but then during sonogram #5 our doctor said he could tell and wondered if we wanted to know. We said sure, odd spur of the moment decision, but kind of fun to know! Then he told us we had a 60/40 chance of having a boy and a girl. We thought those were strange odds, but then he's the doctor and we aren't.
When a woman is pregnant with one baby her fundal height (uterus measurement) usually measures right along with the number of weeks she is pregnant. Well, with twins I was measuring about 10 weeks bigger. At 22 weeks I measured 31 cm -made us wonder just how huge I was going to get and how a woman's body can stretch that much!
When we first found out we were pregnant with twins, our doctor said that he wanted me to gain 30-35 pounds during the pregnancy! Not so bad, I could deal with that. At week 22 I had gained 22 pounds! My doctor was not happy - "That's too much and it was 10 pounds in one month". What we didn't tell our doctor was that the only thing I had been able to eat was fudge sickles and ice cream! No wonder I had gained so much - guess I would have to work on that. By the end of the pregnancy I had gained 50 pounds!
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