Yesterday we went for our 20 week ultrasound sound and anatomy scan. I'm always so nervous when heading to these appointments. I basically pace around all morning, tell Justin roughly 20 times I'm scared to get in the car, and then feel like I might throw up until they see something moving around on the screen. Yesterday was no different. They told me at 15 weeks I probably wouldn't feel them move around much because both their placentas were in the front and blocking me from feeling their movements.
My mom is in town helping us move and Justin had to check out of our old house so my mom loaded up Claire and we took her to daycare. After dropping her off we raced back to the hospital to make it there for my 8 am ultrasound that was supposed to last two hours. They called me back and had me lay down in a different room then I was in the last time. There were going to be two ultrasound techs looking at the girls today! That scared me alone. They started the ultrasound and we saw the girls moving around so I could finally just lay there and relax.
Baby A was the first to be scanned and everything checked out perfectly! She has all the right parts, everything is measuring on track, and she was cooperative through the whole thing. Baby B was second and had the same report. No issues with feet, hands, or nose- I didn't even know they looked to make sure they had a nose bone?!? It is just crazy the amount of things you can see on an ultrasound. At the hospital I was able to just lay there and look up at the ceiling where they have the little monitor to watch the ultrasound. The girls are for sure moving in there and kicking each other around. They are both currently head down which is different that 5 weeks ago when one was sideways and one way breech. They can always move more in the coming weeks. I'm just not sure where they are going to fit in there! I feel like my stomach has been stretched to its max. Baby A is measuring in at 12 oz and Baby B is measuring in at 11 oz. I got to meet one of the other high risk doctors yesterday so I'm starting to feel really comfortable with how things are going. We will see them again in 2 weeks just at a small check in and then again in 4 weeks at another measuring check in.
Last week I started feeling more movement on the right side so I knew something was going on in there. I'm obviously bigger than I was with Claire at this point, but I still think it's so strange I don't feel them as much as I thought I would since there are two of them. We've been busy moving since last week so I haven't been paying that much attention to them moving around, but it's starting to pick up speed. I can feel more movement when I get home from work and just sit on the couch.
We've had the girls ultrasound up on the refrigerator door since 15 weeks so when we were moving they got moved into a bag for safe keeping. Poor Claire went in the kitchen one day and came back out asking "where my sisters?". She also keeps asking me if my tummy hurts. Sweet baby.
*Just a side note to myself: I've been really uncomfortable and have been having to drink a cup of water or something in the middle of the night. The night before I had had a red gatorade by the bed. When I woke up I finished it off and went to brush my teeth. I gagged and of course threw up...the red gatorade. I stood there and freaked for about 30 seconds to a minute that I was about to die and Justin was going to be left to raise Claire alone. I then looked down and saw the empty bottle and sighed a big sigh of relief. Glad I didn't die yesterday.
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Sunday, August 19, 2012
You Know You Want to Hear About This
Warning: This about potty training. If you don't want to read it, don't. It's for the seriously funny memories of Claire...not at the time, but now it's funny.
It's been almost a month since Claire and I embarked on the most insane 3 days of our 2 years together. At this point I have decided I can talk about it and write it down so that I will remember this for round 2 with 2 more little girls. Since I found out we were pregnant with a baby..and then 2 babies...I decided I would not be having 3 little booties to cover up with a diaper! I had originally planned to do this in Texas with my mom as moral support and an extra set of hands, but then got to thinking that I did not want to take a new potty trained booty on an airplane for 8 very long hours! On to Plan B: We would start this craziness after Texas and our Aulani stay!
While in Texas I had sent Justin out for drop cloths to put on our crazy hard to clean Pottery Barn rugs. The night before we woke up to pure craziness I put the drop cloths down and covered them with beach towels so that when there were accidents, and there were, I could just pick up a towel and put another one down. I put out activities for us to do, put out her treats, and called it a night.
Day 1: We woke up and took off the last diaper. I put all the diapers in a bag and put them in the garage. I couldn't throw them away like the lady said. We slipped on some new princess undies from our stash of 30 pairs that include princess, Dora, Minnie, Ni Hao Kia Lan, and got breakfast going. I began my lines of the week "tell mommy if you have to potty" " are you keeping _____clean?". I literally thought my brain was about to explode at 8:45 from hearing myself say this. Our first accident of the day was right after breakfast and a large glass of milk. She started yelling and saying "uh oh"over and over. I scooped her up and ran her to the bathroom to finish going. We made lemonade, ate popsicles, lots of fruit, and never left each other's side! By nap time I was scared it wasn't going to work. She would start going pee and just scream "ahhh" but was so proud of herself when she got to call someone, got a sticker, or a Skittle! I sent her to nap time with no diaper or pull-up on. I just knew I'd be getting a wet bed and toddler, but 3 hours later she was still dry! We did the happy dance all over her room. The afternoon went a little better because of encouraging text messages and emails back and forth with people who had potty trained their kids already, but when Justin got home from work I decided there was no way she would make it through the night and went and got some pull-ups at Target. I was still at the very tired phase from the twins and getting up to change sheets at 1 am didn't sound appealing to me!
Day 2: We woke up and started the day out the same. Changed from night undies aka pull-ups to regular undies. I repeated the same thing I did on Tuesday roughly 950 times and I could already tell a difference. I won't lie though, I called my mom at about 8 and almost quit. I was so tired of repeating myself and day one wore me out. Entertaining someone at all times is hard work! We danced, played with paint, played with play dough, watched movies, read books, ran to the potty, drank some pink drink aka lemonade, ate popsicles, ran to the potty, ate skittles and M&Ms, and just waited for the accidents to start happening...but they never did! She was even dry after nap. There were no accidents on day 2 and by the end of day 2 I needed to see another adult.
Day 3: We repeated our morning from day 1 and 2. We got ready for a playdate at our house because I wanted to experiment with being "busy" and having to potty. Needless to say it went great. She did wake up wet from nap that day, but I partly blame myself because I gave her a glass of water 20 minutes before nap without even thinking. Other than that there were no accidents from the day!
Stats of Potty Training:
Day 1: #1 11 times, #2 1 time, 7 accidents
Day 2: #1 13 times, # 2 1 time, 0 accidents
Day 3: #1 9 times, # 2 0 times, 0 Accidents
Claire went back to daycare on day 6 and had no accidents! It's actually been really easy for her and I'm glad. I did send a crazy mom note in on the first day back that said "DO NOT PUT A DIAPER ON HER, PLEASE!!!"
Almost a month out and she is a very independent potty goer. Her newest lines "be right back, guys", "no stay away", and while jumping around "okay pee". She did fall in the toilet one night that she was having a very tired meltdown anyways. She didn't want any help from mommy so I walked away and told Justin to go handle that :) by the time he got in there I heard a splash and just about died laughing. She was screaming "I fell in the potty" while Justin came to her rescue.
My favorite sight is her little tiny booty in undies running around the house.
It's been almost a month since Claire and I embarked on the most insane 3 days of our 2 years together. At this point I have decided I can talk about it and write it down so that I will remember this for round 2 with 2 more little girls. Since I found out we were pregnant with a baby..and then 2 babies...I decided I would not be having 3 little booties to cover up with a diaper! I had originally planned to do this in Texas with my mom as moral support and an extra set of hands, but then got to thinking that I did not want to take a new potty trained booty on an airplane for 8 very long hours! On to Plan B: We would start this craziness after Texas and our Aulani stay!
While in Texas I had sent Justin out for drop cloths to put on our crazy hard to clean Pottery Barn rugs. The night before we woke up to pure craziness I put the drop cloths down and covered them with beach towels so that when there were accidents, and there were, I could just pick up a towel and put another one down. I put out activities for us to do, put out her treats, and called it a night.
Day 1: We woke up and took off the last diaper. I put all the diapers in a bag and put them in the garage. I couldn't throw them away like the lady said. We slipped on some new princess undies from our stash of 30 pairs that include princess, Dora, Minnie, Ni Hao Kia Lan, and got breakfast going. I began my lines of the week "tell mommy if you have to potty" " are you keeping _____clean?". I literally thought my brain was about to explode at 8:45 from hearing myself say this. Our first accident of the day was right after breakfast and a large glass of milk. She started yelling and saying "uh oh"over and over. I scooped her up and ran her to the bathroom to finish going. We made lemonade, ate popsicles, lots of fruit, and never left each other's side! By nap time I was scared it wasn't going to work. She would start going pee and just scream "ahhh" but was so proud of herself when she got to call someone, got a sticker, or a Skittle! I sent her to nap time with no diaper or pull-up on. I just knew I'd be getting a wet bed and toddler, but 3 hours later she was still dry! We did the happy dance all over her room. The afternoon went a little better because of encouraging text messages and emails back and forth with people who had potty trained their kids already, but when Justin got home from work I decided there was no way she would make it through the night and went and got some pull-ups at Target. I was still at the very tired phase from the twins and getting up to change sheets at 1 am didn't sound appealing to me!
Day 2: We woke up and started the day out the same. Changed from night undies aka pull-ups to regular undies. I repeated the same thing I did on Tuesday roughly 950 times and I could already tell a difference. I won't lie though, I called my mom at about 8 and almost quit. I was so tired of repeating myself and day one wore me out. Entertaining someone at all times is hard work! We danced, played with paint, played with play dough, watched movies, read books, ran to the potty, drank some pink drink aka lemonade, ate popsicles, ran to the potty, ate skittles and M&Ms, and just waited for the accidents to start happening...but they never did! She was even dry after nap. There were no accidents on day 2 and by the end of day 2 I needed to see another adult.
Day 3: We repeated our morning from day 1 and 2. We got ready for a playdate at our house because I wanted to experiment with being "busy" and having to potty. Needless to say it went great. She did wake up wet from nap that day, but I partly blame myself because I gave her a glass of water 20 minutes before nap without even thinking. Other than that there were no accidents from the day!
Stats of Potty Training:
Day 1: #1 11 times, #2 1 time, 7 accidents
Day 2: #1 13 times, # 2 1 time, 0 accidents
Day 3: #1 9 times, # 2 0 times, 0 Accidents
Claire went back to daycare on day 6 and had no accidents! It's actually been really easy for her and I'm glad. I did send a crazy mom note in on the first day back that said "DO NOT PUT A DIAPER ON HER, PLEASE!!!"
Almost a month out and she is a very independent potty goer. Her newest lines "be right back, guys", "no stay away", and while jumping around "okay pee". She did fall in the toilet one night that she was having a very tired meltdown anyways. She didn't want any help from mommy so I walked away and told Justin to go handle that :) by the time he got in there I heard a splash and just about died laughing. She was screaming "I fell in the potty" while Justin came to her rescue.
My favorite sight is her little tiny booty in undies running around the house.
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