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God's peace be with you and your family!View Thread
I delivered my twins 2.5 months early. Eva was 2 pounds 13 oz delivered vaginally, her sister Autumn was 3 pounds 1 oz delivered c-section 31 minutes later. They were in the NICU for 6 weeks and left when they were 5 pounds 10 oz. They were SO healthy compared to the rest of the babies there, and caught up in growth at around 7 months old. They will be 1 year old May 16th, 2011!! They are standing and starting to try to balance without support, and they can walk if you hold their hands. It is likely your twins will be born early, though hopefully not as early as mine! I think they only were early because Eva went into distress - I think her sac had ruptured because I was leaking the night before - didn't think it was her water breaking though. It was a very close call - the doctor didn't believe that 4/5 symptoms of pre-term labor were cause for concern, so I didn't go in until about an hour before Eva was born. She was crowning by the time they did a cervix check.
Please, if you think there is an issue, GO TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM! Doctors are not infallible, and ones you trust can be just as lazy as anyone else (my doctor was on call and she was the one who said it was nothing - I think she didn't want to have to take the time to see me). I and my girls were very blessed, and I hope your pregnancy goes as smooth as mine did MINUS the pre-term labor.
(Really, I had no serious issues during my pregnancy up until the girls were born).View Thread
I went to have a tummy check on Thursday and I had gained 5 pounds in two weeks!! I was appalled at that, because I know it was due to chowing down on candy and drinking a lot of soda...I've already worked on going back to my good diet. Tonight I've eaten a lot of rich foods and soda, but I think one day won't hurt too much, as long as I behave tomorrow. Anyway, that's my only weight gain so far (due to eating so healthy in comparison to how I used to eat).
I started showing at about 13 weeks and now I'm quite obviously pregnant. Women in my family usually don't show until 6-7 months or so.View Thread



It took DH and I a little while to get used to the idea of twins, since it also doesn't run in either of our families and we had no fertility assistance. We wanted a boy and a girl, but are thrilled to know we so far have two healthy girls growing. U/S's are so exciting! I would freak out right before every visit and then everything would turn out fine and I'd be good for another month before stressing something was wrong. We ended up getting quite a few ultrasounds because every time they couldn't verify both babies' heartbeats, they would confirm with an U/S. The way they check for both heartbeats is by positioning the sonar device over each fetus. You can't really pick up one baby's H/B unless it is directly over it, and the twins are usually positioned in such a way that you can get distinct H/Bs. Also, for our girls, they each have different heartrates - like I said, if they can't hear one or both, they will likely do another U/S.
My weight gain so far is probably about 7-10 pounds. Most of that is recent because I started eating sweets again. Early in the pregnancy, I wanted nothing to do with sweets and I avoided them, ended up losing a few pounds. Last time I was at a doctor's office, they said I was about 5 pounds over what I started at - not bad considering I was 21 weeks along with twins (granted, I'm overweight as it is and don't need to be gaining a lot).
I hope you feel better soon! M/S is no fun!View Thread

We considered Abigail as a name, and my name is Alexandria, so didn't want to use anything close to it like Lexi. Eli is a great name, though! Our little boys would have been Anthony and Michael.
I'm tellin' ya though - I would name a girl Michael if DH would let me!View Thread


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