Monday Again

HOORAY FOR THE END OF THE SINUS INFECTION!!!

Last week was pretty miserable on the health front. A cold turned into a sinus infection that got so bad I felt like my teeth were going to fall out of my jaw from the pain and pressure. Zithromax was prescribed, and unfortunately that caused the requisite intestinal upset... but with a couple of days of probiotics on board I'm feeling MUCH MUCH better.

So good, in fact, that I actually WOKE UP with my alarm this morning (insane, I know). So hopping back on the exercise train this week with a 3 day schedule - tues, wed, fri. Thursday is a big day with another ultrasound of the bebes and my first admissions interview at Birthingway College of Midwifery.

I still need to find SOMTHING to wear.

;)

Belly Pic

Ok... I will admit that this makes it look like I don't have much of a belly, but its THERE!!! I swear by the fact that none of my size 12s will button anymore!!!

There you have it - 10weeks and 6days pregnant with twins... lets just watch it grow!

more noticeable by the day

it is becomming fairly obvious that I am pregnant... that or I'm just gaining a LOT of weight in my belly. My lower belly is hard and firm and there is definitely some flab developing above the uterus and on the sides (joy...). I spent Friday/Saturday and most of Sunday on the couch because of this damned head-cold. I was WASTED tired, my whole body ached, and my widdle nose is still red and raw even tho my hubby bought me two jumbo boxes of puffs pluss with lotion... which are my favorite tissues of all time, bar none. Massive ammounts of OJ were consumed but food was sketchy. I have very little appetite when I'm sick so I just tried to snack all day long.

According to all of the Twin Pregnancy books I've been reading I am supposed to be getting upwards of 3000 calories per day. Have I mentioned this already? Have I also mentioned how HARD it is to eat 3000 calories of nutritious whole-food per day... especially when your stomach is used to accomodating 1800 or so MAX? What is really cool is that this is such an amazing learning opportunity for me. I am getting to do research on a new topic and I'm loving it.

Exercise is light but going well. I only went in twice last week, but I'm confident I'll make it to 3 this week... and after a few weeks at 3 I'll bump it up to 4 which is probably where I'll stay for the remainder of the pregnancy.

I am healthy, I am happy... how about you??

exercise is good...

just the little bit of exercise I've gotten in this week has really been helping my energy levels... it is not a myth that exercise improves your energy... I'm walking talking living breathing proof!

Three weeks till our next peek at the little ones. I am not used to getting so many ultrasounds and in fact with my youngest son we had none. I'm trying to enjoy all of the extra attention this is bringing me... but honestly there are some bits I would be happy to do without.

I KNOW people are going to touch me... without my permission... and that bugs the CRAP out of me... since WHEN did women become public property when ever they have a protruding belly? (mine isn't protruding too far yet... but it will, oh yes it will). I know people are going to comment on how big I am at any given time and aren't I ready to pop yet, and all of that stuff, and since WHEN is it ok to tell a woman how BIG she is? Even if she's pregnant??? As IF!!!

Ok... I know its a little early to be ranting about this stuff, but today I hit 10 weeks and the embryos graduated to fetus status and I'm seriously just about to bust out the maternity clothing because there is NOTHING in my closet that will fit around my waist anymore and I'm already anticipating I suppose. I should knock it off and just revel in the fact that I have the vast privelage of nurturing two new human beings into existance over the next few months.

Yes... that is what I'll do.

Forget the hormone riddled ranting above. I am a good and happy person... really I am!

;)

PROMISE!!

whoah...

monday already??? and its been a WEEK since I posted??? What the heck?

Ok... life right now consists of eating, sleeping and working... today I will do my first "workout" in about 8 weeks. The speed at which a body deconditions is astounding and suckey. Its so much harder to start slow when you know where you were... when you know what shape you SHOULD be in.

The doc gave me licesnse to exercise moderately until my body tells me to stop. He doesn't want me running, jumping on any trampolines or playing competative/contact sports.

So the plan this week is 3 days... light full body weights and 10-20 minutes on the TM or eliptical depending on how my heartrate holds up. Shouldn't be too tough, I suppose.

I am supposed to try to gain 5lbs by my next appointment on November 3rd, and I am trying to eat more... but I don't want to eat a bunch of crap that is void of nutrition either... so I'm eating more frequently, and adding protein anywhere I can. Eating for three is a very difficult venture. Luckily the nausea seems to have gone for good and I am only having to deal with food aversions at this point. Time for my mid-morning cereal and protein shake!

I keep apologizing...

for not writing more... and the truth is that I WANT to post more, I really do. I have all these things going thru my head (not to mention my body) and I'm reading more and more about twin pregnancies and I'm finally seeing the perinatologist for the first time this week so I can get some guidance on how much I should be exercising, but the truth of the matter is... I am beat. exhausted. the fatigue is monumental.

I knew that I would be tired going into this pregnancy... I had no doubt that I would be tired... but this is beyond anything I have ever experienced and THEN I read a book that tells me I should be getting 2 30 minute naps each day and I have to stop and thing... when the HELL am I supposed to work 2 30 minute naps into each day??? Insanity I tells ya!

So I walk during lunch at work (don't worry... I'm still eating... pretty much constantly in order to keep the queasyness at bay), and that's about it. Getting up early to exercise? HA! Evening workouts? No freakin way, my friends. I have gained 4lbs since the beginning of this adventure, and according to all of the literature I'm already 5lbs behind (don't worry, I'm CERTAIN I'll catch up). But what I am enjoying is just the fact of all of this.

I am pregnant again when I thought I would never get to experience pregnancy and birth again. I am getting the very unique pleasure of carrying a multiple pregnancy and that's not somthing I would ever have gotten the experience of under "normal" circumstances... AND... overall, it really isn't that bad. Fatigue, yes... nausea... some... but seriously kids... This is pretty freakin cool.

In less than 10 days all of the major development of the babies will be completed even tho they're less than an inch long... and from that point forward it will be growth and maturing the structures that are already there.

Its insane, and its wonderful, and I am loving it (even the crappy parts!)

Good Eating Habits Start Early

I think that it's important for me to instill good eating habits in my kids at an early age. I'm lucky in that my kids will pick string cheese and an apple over goldfish crackers for a snack... they will eat green stuff without threat of punishment (and often ASK for salad with dinner) and they think white-bread is weird!

I also know, tho, that some of their eating habits are not just luck... some of their eating habits are due to our families efforts to make good food fun... for example:

Nate's Snack Today!

Cut up fruit... put it on a stick... INSTANT ENTERTAINMENT... and he ate the whole thing too!!! There's grapes, apple, pear, and pineapple on that skewer. My husband helped him create his masterpiece and sent me the picture this morning. He paired that with some cheese and talk about healthy!!! :)

I remember one of my favorite things to eat was the "Saturday" they'd talk about during Saturday Morning Cartoons... it was a little cartoon bit like the "don't drown your food" and "call me yuck-mouth" ones... A saturday was a ring of pineapple, with a half a banana sticking out of it, cottage cheese or yogurt around the base and a grape on top.

My sisters and I would gobble those things UP! I think that is probably what started my healthy appreciation of all things cottage cheese! ;)

I'm glad I can make healthy food fun for my kids... we do have treats and junk around the house, but its so gratifying to see them choosing the healthier options on their own... feels like a job well done.

progress

Feelin better... which is a VERY good thing... went for a walk today and I've been able to eat again, which is so wonderful, I can't even describe it.

Still have some aversions... beef for example and the sniffer is on TRUE overdrive, but I am starting to feel like I might be able to get back into some actual exercise (YAY!!!) so only a couple of weeks off the wagon due to this whole "morning sickness" crap... not too bad!

I am 8 weeks on Wednesday... its going... quickly... I feel like I should have some sort of "count down" type thingie, but I have ZERO idea how to do that... heck I have a hard enough time just adding BUTTONS to my layout! ;)

speaking of buttons... you simply MUST head on over to Renee's new site: FatFighter Blogs!
I'll be adding a button for the site as soon as I figure out how to do it, she's got some GREAT ideas growing over there and its going to be an amazing community as it grows.

ok... enough from me, time for SLEEP!!!