[NotChicken]

amybeth: i hear you on the babies r us..but my downfall is Gymboree! I LOVE that store - I just used gymbucks on my last trip, 9 pieces for 33.00! that store is crazy addictive ( I never pay full price for anything - that makes it a little better )

[BabyOBabyIWantABaby]

Wow I had no idea that store had such a good deals. I would rather not know, but Thanks!lol

Here are my almost 29 week pics, I think you can see my belly button hole,ehh!

[dlrust1]

Originally Posted by BabyOBabyIWantABaby

Wow I had no idea that store had such a good deals. I would rather not know, but Thanks!lol

Here are my almost 29 week pics, I think you can see my belly button hole,ehh!

I love the belly pics! I love to see all of us growing with our little ones.

I think I also see a little hint of a tattoo. Everyone told me not to get one on my belly but, so far it hasn't changed a whole lot.

[amybeth]

Awwww! Super cute belly shots everyone! Maybe I'll get up enough nerve to take a bare-belly shot this weekend.

[Cupcake08]

For those of you that are Gymboree fans... in Plum Magazine(pregnancy mag for ladies over 35) there is a 20% off total purchase coupon. This is huge since they are having a big sale already right now!

I LOVE all of the belly shots! You all look so beautiful. I have a bump for sure but its surrounded by a bunch of "padding".

The 4D pics are also amazing. I hope to get another shot on Monday at my appointment!

Take care!

[hopefulmama]

Originally Posted by amybeth

Mary Kay: That is great news about you fFN test results!!! Continuing to take it easy is the best thing you can do for those little munchkins!!!

We just got back a little bit ago from our second trip to Babies R Us today! The first one was earlier today when we went to go pick up the crib. Wow that was a big box!!! We had to open it up and just put the pieces in the back of the Q7! There wasn't much room left for anything else, so we took the crib home, put it together, and went back to do the rest of our shopping. With the huge 15% off sale this weekend, we wanted to make sure to take advantage of that! We ended up getting the crib mattress, some really cute crib sheets that DH picked out, a safari themed mobile (called Zanzibar or something like that) to compliment the Pop Monkey bedding, some mattress pads, and I caved and got a glider and ottoman!!! I sat in a few and fell in love with the one that Angela had gotten Cherry Glider/Ottoman Combo with Fern Microfiber - Shermag - Babies "R" Us. We got the cherry wood with fern microfiber cushions. Unfortunately they didn't have it in stock, but they ordered it from their warehouse and said it would be there in 7-14 days. Saving the 15% was nice with all the stuff we got today! We're going to hold off on any other big purchases until we get our rewards certificates for the last few trips. We'll have bought our crib, pack and play, and glider (among a bunch of other little things) so the rewards will hopefully add up nicely!

Now all I have to do is finish a few loads of laundry so I can finish putting the bedding together for the crib! DH got so excited about everything and even put together and attached the audio/video baby monitor and the mobile! We'll have to move the mobile eventually as he centered it perfectly on the crib, and I've read you aren't supposed to have it directly above the baby. But it was so cute that he got all excited and put it all together! He even tested the video portion of the monitor with a stuffed monkey and stuffed cow!!! I love that he's getting so excited about our son being born!

Amy Trying to catch up on all the posts and saw that you mentioned rewards certs for brus. How do you get these? I'm so out of the loop with this kind of stuff.

[hopefulmama]

Originally Posted by amybeth

Here's two of the pics of the nursery! We decided not to spend money on matching furniture, as we had a chest of drawers and a dresser from an Ethan Allen bedroom set, which will be our son's once he gets older anyway... we also had an older bookshelf that will hopefully soon be filled with kids books!!! The money we saved on other nursery furniture will be used for other baby items!

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Amy I love the color. The monkey comforter looks so cute on the crib.

[hopefulmama]

Originally Posted by BabyOBabyIWantABaby

Amybeth-that is so cute. I love the Monkey. Our furniture is mixed too. We have a lot of antique items and our beds are different because we had bought one before we found out we were having twin.The room looks so small now but it is amazing walking into the room and you can picture yourself with your little bundle/s of joy!Here are the pics of where the beds are.The walls look blue but they are a neutral green.

Your nursery looks great too. Cute cribs and I love the girls names spelled out on the walls. I'm buying a decal "E" for the nursery from pb - since both of our names start with E it makes it easy.

[hopefulmama]

Originally Posted by bq122

HI Thread sisters..Thanks for asking..

Yes, OB did answer some of my questions. He seemed kind of mad because I am not taking the BH serious. When I told him I get them for hours & every 5 mins.
He wants me to go to the hosp. He wants to slow them down. With twins I can start dilating really fast.
So I had to promise him that if it happens again I will call and go to L&D. ( I guess I will spending 2 or 3 nights at the hosp. because that how often it happens)
He wants me to be on modified bed rest. UUGGGHHH
because I really do nothing as it is. So now I have to do less, I didnt think that was possible.
He did do the swab test to see if I am in pre-labor. The results will be back tomorrow. He said cervix looks good.
I go back to him on Feb 9. Both babies are head down. He said my goal will be to make it to 34 weeks.
He will stop the contractions up to 34 weeks after that he wont.
The GD test wasnt back yet...

Barbara I'm sure there's more posted on this latewr but wanted to say I'm sorry you're on modified bed rest and that you'll be going to l&d. Better to be safe though. Hope the pre-labor test came back neg.

[hopefulmama]

Originally Posted by BabyOBabyIWantABaby

Barbara-I think they were around 4 1/2 pounds but their lungs were mature and they did very well.
Courtney-I am sorry you are having a rough time, pregnancy does not seem to help much at all. We are all close so we just have to hang on!
Susan-Did they say if they would try to turn your baby a?

My MFM was great today. Cervix was 2.1cm so it has stayed put another week. Baby A gained 2 oz and now weighs 2lb12 oz.Baby B gained 7 oz and now weights 2lbs 9oz. This is amazing because just a couple weeks ago their was almost a whole pound difference between them! He said my chance of deliver in the next 2 weeks is around 10% I will take it!

Mary Kay THat's great news that you will prob no go into labor in the next 2 weeks. I was so happy to see that baby B caught up to babyA

[hopefulmama]

Originally Posted by Rademaker

My OB-gyn said that they could not turn Baby A (only can turn baby b with twins). But, now I'm not seeing my OBGYN. Now I'm seeing the fetal specialist for everything and he seems to think we should probably just do the c-section. He said for Taylor being breech but also wanted to have everyone we needed there for Chance. My questions is what happens if I go into labor before the scheduled c-section? I guess they'd do an emergency one but then it wouldn't be planned like he wanted it. I don't know.......
I do know one thing- if I were rich- or even just a little rich- I'd go ahead and start my maternity leave. I'm taking 12 weeks but want to wait until they're born. Especially with Chance's condition.
Oh, and Mary Kay- my babies were last measured last week and are at 2 lb 11 oz and 2 lb 8 oz, so we are right about the same.

That makes sense that they're planning a c-section. Whatever they need to do. I would def ask what the plan is if you go into labor early so that there aren't any surprises. I've been keeping Chance in my prayers...

[hopefulmama]

Originally Posted by cali_girl_in_sweden

Hello Ladies,

Here is one of the pics from today's session. My hubby emailed it to me. We have to get the others off of the disk but I wanted to give you an idea ...

Have a wonderful hump day!

Scarlet

Very cute pic of her!!!

[hopefulmama]

Originally Posted by cali_girl_in_sweden

Thanks ladies for the positive comments.

My Midwife measures but doesn't tell me the number. This last time she said I was measuring slightly large. At the u/s yesterday the tech calculated that the baby may be alittle over 9 lbs at birth ... yikes!

9 pounds!!! Yikes!!!

[hopefulmama]

Originally Posted by ~Rae~

Hey guys

I got to see Macie's little face today

Oh she's beautiful!!

[hopefulmama]

OK finally caught up!! Sorry for my posting marathon

Deanna Scarlet and Mary Kay You all look great!!

Am I the only one without a bellybutton piercing LOL?

Patricia Has your friend thought of a surrogate with either her and dh's embryos or donor embryos? Prob costs big bucks though. I always thought before I found out about my high bp that I would be a surrogate.... Always wanted to give someone else the chance to be a parent.

BTW My doc doesn't measure my stomach either. I'm thinking it's b/c I get so many us....

Well my appt went well. Baby's measuring well and the hb was good. The baby is breech but there's still time for him/ her to flip. I did the gest diabetes test too - the orange flavored drink - it wasn't too bad but I def felt dizzy - thought I might fall over. By the time it was over I hadn't eaten in 12 hours (fasting from the night before) - boy was I hungry!!! They've also been checking my bp and it's still pretty good 120s/ 84 - gets a bit higher if I'm nervous but if they let me rest in the room it comes down.

Scarlet My next appts are:

Jan 29 reg ob, Feb 17 us at high risk doc

They are starting the non stress tests once a week at 32 weeks - ugh it's 1 hr each way to get to the high risk doc for this. but whatever I have to do is fine with me.

Hope everyone has a good night.

PS Never heard the results of Barbara's testing (whatever it's called to see if you're going into labor) or did I miss it?

Did I miss the update on Chance?
There was so much I had to catch up on...