I have long neglected this blog due to life being crazy chaotic around here. I am thankfully still pregnant with our twins, and simultaneously navigating selling our home (a two bedroom apartment won't cut it for our soon-to-be family of 5!) and parenting our 3.5 year-old son, Rowan.
Twin pregnancy has been very different to that of my first pregnancy. Everything has stretched faster, ached faster, everything has in fact been faster - including baby movement, which I felt the first flutters of at 12 weeks pregnant! Now, at 18 weeks, flutters have become pokes and I can distinctly feel a baby on each side of my tummy which is kind of fun.
I am carrying monochorionic-diamnotic twins (or Mono-Di for short), which basically means the babies are each in their own amniotic sac but share a single placenta. This means extra monitoring via ultrasound (scans every two weeks starting at 16 weeks, and will progress to once per week from 24 weeks on). The extra scans are to ensure that both babies are growing as they should be and that one isn't getting more or less blood flow than the other. So far so good with our scans, but I'm always cautiously optimistic as I've been told that things can change very quickly in mono-di twin pregnancies.
So, want to see our babies? Since 12 weeks, Baby A has been in a better position for photos (the twin closer to the front of my uterus, therefore easier to scan) so we've gotten some great shots. Baby B remains a little more elusive and is very wriggly (but I know we'll get that gorgeous profile shot at some point!).
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| Our twins at 12 weeks (Baby A on the left, Baby B on the right) |
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| Baby A at 16 weeks (with a profile and nose just like Rowan!) |
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| Baby B at 16 weeks |
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| Twin bump growth at 12 weeks vs 14 weeks (when I started to really pop quickly) |
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| 16 week twin bump (see what I mean??) |
And lastly, at our 16 week scan we were able to find out what we were having, I'll leave Rowan to fill you in with the details! ;)
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| It's BOYS! |
One of the best recommendations for maternity and breastfeeding clothes was made to me by a friend who couldn't find any items that matched her fashion sense as none of the high street shops had the things she was looking for. She came across a European company called My Tummy www.mytummy.co.uk online and she only bought from them. They have really cute maternity blouses and dresses that double up as breastfeeding dresses too. I've only tried the pregnancy trousers so far but I really like them. Let me know if you check them out! x
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