Happy Halloween

I know. You're saying to yourself, "No she didn't!" Yes she did. Here is the Halloween belly as of 34 weeks 2 days. Artwork courtesy of my hubby and step son. Impressive huh?

S0 here I sit with my painted belly hanging out for all the world to see eating all our candy before the trick or treaters take it all!! Rug rats! LOL

Happy Hallopween all! enjoy the goods!

short funny

If you look at the latest picture I posted you'll see me in a brown shirt that I recently purchased. As I always do when making light of my ever increasing belly, I asked my husband, "Does this shirt make me look fat?" He laughs and won't commit to an answer. I said, "But look! It has rouching! That is supposed to make me look skinnier!" My step son heard all this and said, "I don't know who this Mr. Rouche is but he was wrong!" LOL

Out of the mouths of babes....

33 weeks and counting

Will the fun never end? There is that old saying "It's always something" and I know it is true. What a week!

Tuesday I had my 2nd non stress test and monthly ultrasound. Good news at the ultrasound: Claire is no longer breech! We may be able to deliver vaginally! I have been dreading a Csection. So then we move to the non stress test and discover that I am having some contractions. "We're going to have you go upstairs for some monitoring and they will decide what to do with you. HUH? Panic sets in!!! I'm only 32 weeks I can't be having contractions!! Wouldn't I be in some serious pain?? So I go upstairs and get squeeezed in. They do a swab test call Fetal Fiberconin or something like that to see the likelyhood of me going into labor in the next 10 days or so. Of course since I have HMO they can't get the blood test results stat but will call me when they come in and may want me to come into the hospital for monitoring. Go home and go to bed and wait.

The doctor was really nice. She called me twice with updates but couldn't get the results any faster. Thankfully it was negative but she didn't find out until 2:30 AM. Meanwhile I'm freaking out and so is my mom, mother in law and husband. So I got the all clear the next morning. No delivery imminant in the next 10 days but call if there are any problems.

I got to work and we have my shower which was really nice. Kudos to the accounting gals who organized the whole thing. Of course this totally exhausted me so I passed out last night at about 7:30! Wake up this morning to Sam being sick. Fever, cough, sore throat, stomach ache. Sounds like the flu. Wait, he had the flu vaccine so that means it is most likely H1N1! Damn damn damn!! I am asymptomatic but am now waiting for it to hit me as I chose not to get the vaccine. My mother in law took Sam for the day to let me clean and steralize and wash sheets etc. Now I am trying to get in touch with my OB to see what they want me to do. Oh the joy.

Well that was fast. OB just called and they are putting me on Tamiflu proactively as a precaution. Please let this work!! So both the kiddo and I will be on the same medicine and this should do the trick.

Though now let me say that I am pissed! My mother in law has decided that she doesn't want to give him his ADHD meds today and just didn't. So now I have a hyper kid sitting around eating everything in sight and bouncing off the walls andI don't have the patience to deal with that! I told you to give it to him. You don't make executive decisions like that for me! Damn I'm pissed!!! And she then tells me he wants McDonalds and that daddy said it is ok. Well no shit he is hungry - he has no impulse control and over eats when you don't give him his medicine! So with a sick stomach you want him to eat greasy McDonalds. They are out of their minds of they think I'm stopping for that! I won't do it! ARGGGGGGG

OK done venting - for now. God help me this afternoon.

FYI here is the latest belly picture form earlier this week. Enjoy.

30 weeks 5 days

Went to the OB for my weekly check this afternoon. Got to see yet another doctor. He seemed nice and thorough. Tunrs out my blood pressure is going up. Which is not good news. He mentioned turning me into a couch potato if it gets higher. I could handle that I think. LOL So I got more bloodwork and will wait to see if there are markers for high blood pressure to go along with the reading today.

He also measured the belly and we are at about 38 weeks in size now - for a single baby. So considering that I have 2 babies growing they aren't concerned because I haven't gained any weight this week. But I feel huge...

Next week I start getitng non stress tests. These are basically monitors on the babies to see what the resting and playing heart beats are. These will be done weekly to make sure the babies are not under any stress.

He also mentioned that they would consider me full term if I make it to 35 weeks. He seemed to imply that if the BP goes up this may happen sooner rather than later. So I could be having these kids in 5 weeks!!!! I don't think I'm ready. I know the nursery sure isn't! LOL

In other news, our new TV and DVD player are getting installed tomorrow. I can't wait!! At least if they put me on bed rest then I will have some high quality TV watching! :) Plus the Eagles games in HD on the flat screeen will be awesome!!

My mom bought a new car yesterday. She is getting all prepared for the numerous trips up the blue route to come take care of the twins. How cute is that? Expensive but cute.

We have made some progress on the nursery fianlly. Craig and his brother put up the dry wall on Saturday. My brother and friend will be helping with the spackling, trim work, and rest of that stuff this Saturday. Hopefully this will go fast and we can get painting so we can buy the cribs etc. I just want this room done!!!

OK time to go lay on the couch some more. Yawn...