It is like I have been visited by the ghost of trimesters past. My morning sickness and heartburn has returned with a vengeance. So not fun!
I have woken up every morning for the last week feeling queasy and like I am not on the steady foundations of my house but on the deck of some rickety old boat. I have been popping Rennie’s like I am living in a remake of the Valley of the Dolls. Apparently the heartburn could mean that I am expecting a couple of hairy babies...hopefully not Robin Williams hairy (I have scary visions of masses of hair poking out of the arms of their sleep-suits ‘Mork & Mindy’ style). That being said, it would be nice if they had full heads of hair. I myself didn’t really have much hair at all as a baby - and if you have seen baby pictures of me, you may think that this is a bit of an understatement!
Sickness and heartburn aside I am now 33 weeks pregnant and I feel like my bump is getting bigger by the day (I will post a new bump picture next week). The twins’ seem to be getting stronger and stronger with each passing week, at least this is what their kicks and nudges are indicating.
I am getting more and more excited and nervous by the day. The countdown to birth has really started to set in for me. I have potentially 4 more weeks left which to me is not sounding like a very long time at all! I can’t wait to meet the babies, I am just feeling fairly scared about the giving birth part. You may be thinking, ‘I know what’s new – you have been terrified for weeks, stop banging on about it’ and if you are thinking that you are right. I have to say in my defence though, that I have no defence. I am just scared and being the kind of person that over thinks and dwells, I am my own worst enemy.
My mission this week is to find out as much about birth, the natural way and birth by caesarean, so hopefully once I know all the facts I will have something concrete to go on without all the mystery and I will be altogether calmer, less anxious and most of all prepared. I was once a pretty good Brownie (not the cake, more of the camp-fire Baden-Powelldo-gooder type) so I know something about being prepared - it wasn’t just the Scouts that had to go after all those badges and if they made a badge for birthing twins it would be mine after the kind of prep I intend to do this week.
To end things on a cheerful note my Pram arrived at the end of last week and it is gorgeous. We got the Cosatto you2 Twin (Snap). It was quite thrilling to get it out of the box and put it all together (actually Rob did all the heavy lifting and most of the putting it together whilst I watched and pointed at things). I have posted pictures of it below...seriously, how cute!!!
