28 week check up

I had my 28 week check up almost 2 weeks ago, since I have my 30 week check up on this Thursday. This whole pregnancy I have been really nervous about check-ups. You walk in thinking everything is okay… but you might not walk out! My doctor has already told me to be prepared not to go home from these appointments… because if I have signs of pre-term labor she will admit me for treatment just like she had

 to with my first pregnancy.

When I found out I was having twins again… I immediately pulled up a calendar to count the weeks to see when I would go on bed rest assuming this time would be similar to last time.  November 30^th would have been the day.

When I realized this I thought for sure I would be in the hospital on bed rest over Christmas. I was upset about this my whole pregnancy.

But at my 28^th week check-up on December 19^th, everything was fine. Everything was prefect and I walked out of the door and drove home.

I sang to myself, “I’ll be home for Christmas!”  That weekend we decked the halls, much later than the usual of Thanksgiving weekend… but I couldn’t bring myself to do it earlier because I would have drove myself crazy thinking about what if I am not here for Christmas.

At my 28 week check-up, I showed no signs of pre-term labor. My cervix length was 3.54cm and closed. No signs of TTS with baby A weighting 2lbs 10oz and baby B weighing 2lbs 7oz.

I am quickly getting uncomfortable my body aches and I have a lot of swelling, my blood pressure is good so there are no worries of preeclampsia. Just normal growing pains of being pregnant with two babies.

I did have a scare the Sunday before my 28^th week appointment.  It started Saturday night. I was very short of breathe like panting while at rest. It was actually scaring me but I tried to play it off. I laid on the couch and watched a movie… but still I could not catch my breathe. We took my blood pressure and it was fine… and I played it off saying I felt better and we went to bed.

The next day I was still having some issues but continued to not make a big deal out of it. I thought if I went to the hospital for this they would “lock me up” and I would stay there for several weeks so I did not want to make a big deal out of nothing.  Sunday night after dinner… it got much worse similar to Saturday night… panting really hard and could not catch my breathe… even while resting.

Finally I said this is not normal, this is not safe, so I called my doctor’s office and was told to come in. A VERY long story short… the babies and I are fine. But I have a hernia that is pushing my stomach in to my lungs which is laboring my breathing even more after eating, and even more than being pregnant with twins. So basically I just have to eat really small amounts at time. So that is why both nights after dinner I was having such a hard time. I usually have a small appetite for breakfast and lunch as it is.

Thursday I go in for my 30 week appointment and I hope all is well! 

Not for Sale!

 We are not moving. We are staying put.  I felt weird talking about this while we were not living in our house and while our house was on the market. Also since we were not at our house I didn’t have the free time I normally do to blog which lead to my lack of blogging for about a month.

My husband owns a small business where he currently has to rent office space to work from. He found out in late September that the person he rents from needs the space himself and would not be renewing his lease at the start of the year.

As Mike started to look into renting a new office space and the cost ($$$), he had the idea to buy a bigger home with a detached garage that he could work from. So instead of money going to rent why not put it into a bigger nicer house where he could be close to us… since my husband spends a lot of nights working to meet deadlines.

I was sold on the idea. But told Mike to rent a place for a year and then we could revisit the buying a home he could work from idea then… when our life was on less of a time crunch! (The whole me being pregnant with twins, bedrest hanging over my head and him needing to be in a new office space at the start of the year.)

Well unfortunately life would be easier if husbands would just do what we said haha… so you know where this is going…

Well what happened was Mike found this awesome house… that we both fell in love with.

So many things would have to happen for us to be able to get the house… like contact our real estate agent for showings, loan approval, selling our house, and the buyer accepting an offer with our house on the market (a first right refusal).

I was amazed when everything lined up! I was ALL in! We got approved for a loan, they said they would accept our offer… meaning they would wait for our house to sell… but here is the catch… they wanted our house on the market first.

We heard they would accept our offer on a Friday night. That night we started packing and working like wild people to get our house show ready and on the market. That weekend we hauled all of extra stuff to a storage unit. We took all personal items down, painted, weeded, gardened, blew leaves, steamed carpets, both of our families were over helping like mad.

We were ready to list our house Monday morning. Our real estate agent called us Monday morning… we assumed he was asking us if we were ready to list… however he was calling to tell us that “our” house had went under contract on Sunday…they got a contract for full price and a 30 day closing.

The whole time I told myself not to get excited about this house because it was so much of a stretch. I even told Mike that someone could come grab this house while we were trying to get all of our ducks in a row and that we should NOT get excited.

Well I got excited… it seemed like everything was coming together and it seemed like this was our house!

Mike and I told our agent we would have to think about if we STILL wanted to list our house for sale.

We had done so much work getting the house ready to sell… that neither of us wanted to not list and at least wanted to try to sell it. 

Since ideally you should have your house under contract before you start looking so that you don’t go through the heartbreak we did.

So we decided we would give our house 30 days on the market to see what would happen. We priced our house just below fair market value for a fast sale. This left us with no wiggle room in the price. We would basically be breaking even on the sale of our house.

Our agent also did some research on the time frame of houses sold in our neighborhood when priced at mark value… all sold within the last year sold in less than 30 days! The longest was 22 days!

We felt good that our house would sale at its price and quickly.

We knew there was no way that we could keep our house show ready with two dogs and two toddlers, us living there and our parents watching them while we worked at our house.

So we moved in with our in laws so that house would stay clean/show ready and so that it could be shown whenever needed.

Within the first two week we had 9 showings.  By the end of the 30 days we had 14 showings.

So we had nice traffic in and out of house… but got no bites. We got positive feedback and the only negative feedback we received was things we couldn’t change like our lack of a backyard (we back in to woods with a stream which is nice and at least private), or they want all the bedrooms on the same level (me too!), or they like our house but have just started their search and aren’t ready to commit. I was uncomfortable staying on the market longer because I am a planner and wanted to be able to start to prepare for these twins.

Secondly after viewing many houses our self… we found NONE we liked. So there was no motivation for us to stay on the market.

Listing your house over the holidays it not the best time… so we pulled the house off the market and moved back in.

We thought we would try again in a year or so. But my husband is doing a 3 year lease on an office building and got a business loan to expand his business.

So moving will be in the more distance future now… but works more with my original 5 -7 year plan I had when we purchased our home.

On a side note… we purchased our home almost 3 years ago (in April). Before we were engaged, married, had kids… NO ONE could have told me how different my life would be in just 3 years!

So you can look forward to some post about small nursery planning and our playroom! 

Test Results

I got my test results back yesterday. At my last doctor appointment I had blood work done for my glucose test as well as to check for anemia and to see how my thyroid levels are doing.  

I had a hard time with my glucose drink… just like with my last pregnancy. It is so gross… and you have to drink it on an empty which makes it VERY hard for me to keep down. Even with the help of Zofran!

So I drank about half on the drink… and knew I was going to get sick… and sure enough I did. I threw it up. I waited a little while for my stomach to settle and drank the second half. I didn’t know if I would… but I managed to keep the second half completely down.

When I got to my doctor’s I told them the drink had made me sick and that I had thrown up half of it. My doctor tested me anyways… I passed… but because I had a hard time keeping it down… she is going to make me retest in a month to be sure. 

I was surprised I passed… because I felt awful and jittery the rest of the day!

I also passed the test for anemia.

However… my thyroid is ALL out of whack so I have a new prescription for that! BLAH.

I guess 2 out of 3 isn’t bad.

26 weeks!

26 weeks!

I know it’s been a while… but hey… I AM 26 WEEKS and NOT on hospital bed rest! With my first set of twins I went on HBR during my 26 week appointment. I was really nervous for my appointment this week as I thought this could be the end of my normal life and this week I would be confined to a hospital bed for the rest of my pregnancy.

So I went in for my appointment… and the first thing my doctor asked me is… when did you go on HBR the last time… I said at this appointment… she said I thought so.

So begun the test to see how I was doing. First the Ffn test, then a manual exam, the manual exam revealed my cervix was high and closed. I was still sent upstairs to get my cervical length on the ultrasound machine and finally transvaginal and with pressure.

All checked out and I was cleared to leave. Next appointment two weeks… where they will do all the same tests again to see how my cervix is holding up!

I am hoping I can make it past Christmas… I mean how depressing would it be to be on HBR during Christmas. AH!

December 26^th put me on bedrest I don’t care… but Christmas?! That’s just cruel!