Missing

Well, I haven't been on in a while due to extreme morning sickness. I'm still not over that part yet and feel like I still have a ways to go to get past it. The other night I had a horrible gall bladder attack, I had it with both of my other pregnancies but not until much later and not quite as intense. Something tells me this is not going to be a fun pregnancy at all.

My mom is coming up from Florida at the end of May to help me out with Alex & Jack, I think it will be good timing since I am already having a hard time getting off the couch to change and feed them as it is. I am really looking forward to the help, and maybe will be able to get out of the house before I become a hermit once the twins arrive.

TWINS!

Wholly cow, who'd of thunk? Well, it's still early and I was informed that anything can happen and that the chance of something going wrong is much higher then that of a single pregnancy. I just have to keep my hopes up that all will go well and I will have 2 beautiful babies at the end of this. So far so good though, they have good heart rates, Baby A is 171 and Baby B 160, both measuring equally at 8 weeks. Now I am getting excited and looking forward to this adventure.

Issues

Well, between computer issues and morning sickness I haven't been on in a while. Once we get things working again on the computer and I can do more then rotate on the couch I'll be back to fill you all in on my pregnancy and the boys, one of whom is currently chasing the beagle with his brothers old walker.

Molar

Jack is FINALLY getting another tooth in after 6 months! But it is a molar. Seems a little strange to me. He has the 4 front top teeth in and 2 front bottom teeth in, but nothing else. Maybe he will be able to eat human food better pretty soon. We've been avoiding foods that don't dissolve easily in his mouth because he has a tendency to swallow his food pretty quickly no matter how big it is. He also chokes pretty easily. It'll be very nice not having to worry about that anymore.

Anti Parenting Board

I just ran across the funniest board on the internet. A bunch of hate filled individuals that like to complain about parents and their children. It is actually quite entertaining if you can get past the name calling and the assumptions that are placed on all "breeders". They don't like to be stalked by breeders and have plenty of posts about it, yet they apparently stalk pregnancy and parenting boards to get fuel for their threads. Anyway, it's a bunch of sour old hypocritical hags that speak without experience about what it is to be a mom. I'm just glad that these child/mom haters aren't going to be breeding.

Symptoms

I'm 4 weeks and 6 days along today, and it is going so slowly. The last 2 almost 3 weeks, I've had painful breast tenderness and on and off mild nausea. I woke up during the night panicking, I noticed that my breast tenderness had all but disappeared. It just seems really early for that to happen. With my boys, I don't even recall any breast tenderness, actually I didn't have any symptoms until 8 weeks, so to be losing symptoms this early is quite disconcerting. I still have extreme fatigue, and waves of mild nausea, I wish I could just relax and enjoy pregnancy. Looking forward to getting to the 2nd trimester. Actually, I can't wait to get to the ultrasound at 8 weeks. I have to go by myself since someone has to watch the boys, and we haven't told anyone yet. But I think I will be able to relax a lot more after that.

Anxious

I have never cared too much for the first trimester of pregnancy. The constant worry, and questioning that forever swirls around in my head. Every cramp and twinge of pain, wondering if I should have told my MIL to bugger off when she wanted to go to the zoo today. It ended up being 40 mph winds with snow, making it blizzard like conditions. We had to pull the boys backwards in the stroller so as not to get the snow smacking them in their faces. What a nightmare that turned out to be. It is nice when nobody is there and you can let your kids run around without worrying about them disappearing into a crowd. Anyway, once I got the boys in the car and the stroller in the car and then drove the 30 minutes it ended up taking to get home, my tummy started cramping a bit making me feel like I just overdid it today. I can't wait until I'm past the first trimester so I can relax a bit.