36 weeks pix

I had my 36 week Dr.'s appt today. Babies still look great. Their heads are VERY low down.. sonographer lady predicted any day now.. I guess that's the reason I am in so much discomfort... yaaaoooow!
The 'big' news is that I am 3 cm's dilated and 100% effaced (have been totally effaced for over a month now)!! So, we are just waiting for the contractions to come on.

My legs (one in particular) are very, very swollen.. all the way through the thigh. Hence, 2 trips to the ER in the last few days. Alex was concerned about a clot so I had ultrasounds done on my leg to check for DVT (deep vein thrombosis). All checked out clear.

So, now we wait....

35 week pix

We made it this far...


































My Mom insisted on this skin-bearing one. My first nekid pose ;-)

34 week pix!!

Finally... a peak at Baby A

Baby A finally decided to present himself after months and months of incognito...
To compare, I thought it would be neat to post the latest picture I have of Baby B (from 28w 5days):

Baby A (33w)














Baby B (28w 5d)

32 1/2 weeks!

Ok, so we made it this far.. next goal is 34 weeks.

I haven't posted belly pix in a while.. so here are a few...

Baby Shower #2

Last Saturday (3/28) was my baby shower that my Mother-in-law hosted.
It was absolutely amazing, delicious and beautiful!
I was told by many that it was the mother of all baby showers :-)

As Alex and I pulled up in front of the house about 1 hour before the festivities were to commence, I couldn't help myself and shed tears. There were flower arrangements, decorations and balloons all over, outdoors and indoors.

Some wonderful relatives spent days helping my MIL with the food, flower arrangements and decorations. And at the Shower, certain (poor :-) friends were assigned tasks (or took it upon themselves) to help run things smoothly. I cannot thank everyone enough!

We received an abundance of wonderful, generous gifts. But more importantly, seeing so many of our friends and relatives, that took the time to honor us and made the trip from all
over, was priceless!

As I was busy trying to spend as much time with everyone, as possible, I asked others to please take pictures with my camera and videos with my new Flip Video Mino Hd (love it!!). I will post a sampling of some pictures below (out of order). (I am sorry I don't have pictures of everyone!)
In my current bed rest condition, I have yet to edit the videos, so those will have to wait.

Close call!!

Holy Moly!
So, as most of you may already know, we had a BIG scare this past week.. More specifically, on April 1st... (how ironic), I had a routine Dr's appt, where they noticed that my cervix was dangerously short. The Dr. asked if I was feeling any contractions... which I wasn't.

They immediately sent me to the hospital so they could do more testing and put me on a contraction monitor.

To our TOTAL and utter surprise, I was having contractions 3 minutes apart!!!! And, to top it all off, my cervix was effaced and a little dilated.
I was admitted to the hospital and they immediately started me on drugs to attempt to halt or slow down the contractions. Also, I was given the all important steroid shots that mature the lungs of the babies - if they were to come so premature. It took a while to stop the contractions, but it eventually worked.
All in all, I was in for 4 days. The Dr (and Alex) was hesitant to send me home because they are concerned that I may not feel the contractions on my own. So, I am trying my damndest to be in tune with my body :-).
On a serious note, I am home on bedrest. The goal is to obviously keep these buggers in there as long as possible!! Oh and speaking of the buggers.. they are doing wonderfully! They monitored them regularly as well. It seems that they are OK to stick around in there for some time longer. It's just my uterus and cervix that are 'done' and want out :-).
Fingers and toes crossed by everyone for us, pleeeeaaaase!