YAY

Everything so far is fine with the babies and their weight is normal for their gender. But I still have to go back to the doc next week just to make sure. :)

30 weeks

So this ultrasound didn't go as planned BUT one great thing is that Zola is head down (baby A) now, but Zev is a little slanted. Zola is 2 pounds and 11 ounces and Zev is 3 pounds and 9 ounces, so Zola is almost 3 pounds and Zev is almost 4. They are a pound apart, and apparently that is a bad things with fraternal twins. I've read so many stories online about people in the same situation, and it scared me. Some people said they had to be induced at 35 weeks, because of the weight difference. Their heart rate is normal, its just their weight that is a little off. I have my prenatal appointment tomorrow so I'll ask more questions. I have to go to get a Fetal Testing  and Doppler study next week and the week after that. With the Fetal testing BPP I'll get a non stress test, and the Doppler study takes a closer look at the umbilical cords functions and blood flow within the babies.

MY FEET!

My feet are swollen now, and I don't know why. I've read if you drink a lot of water, your feet and hands won't swell. WHYYYYYYYYYY. I have about a month or so left in this pregnancy, and now this. I don't want my hands to swell, just not my hands pleaseeeee!!!!

Crazy new pain...or tickle...

It just happened and it was so weird.  It felt like my girls foot kicked my hip bone and then pushed it. It actually tickled me aand wasn't painful.

Saturday!!

My hubby made it to Augusta, GA safely and he loves it. I read so many crazy negative stories about Fort Gordon and it made both of us paranoid for a while, but again every ones experience is different. He even seems much happier on the phone which makes me happy, when we use to talk when he was in Basic Training he sounded like a zombie, but now he sounds like his old self, back to the Timo I know and looooove.
So day three of weird cramping. I found out that I was constipated, and that is all. So now I'm getting a weird pain in my hips, butt and pelvic area. I think Zev head is causing that pain. Plus I'm having two babies and the weight of Zola and Zev are effecting my lower area. I guess this all means my birthing time is near. They still kick a lot, and I think they kick more than ever. More stretch marks, which is horrible! My stomach got pretty big is such a short time so I guess stretch marks were bound to happen. I have a sonogram this Wednesday and I can't wait. 

My Soldier

He looks so much younger without facial hair, but VERY handsome indeed :)

29 week belly

Now I'm about 90% ready!

I finally ordered My Brest Friend Twin nursing pillow, I hope this will help. And I got the best thing I ever bought while breastfeeding my son Jacob. Lanolin nipple cream works wonders, its like a little bit of magic. When I nursed my son I got major cracked nipples and it was very painful. Sometimes he wouldn't latch on right and I totally regret not checking. I had to nurse on one breast for a month till I found the best product to help, I think it permanently changed my breast size, which is weird. But when I put this product on, It fully heeled within 2 days, and was able to nurse the 3rd day with no pain. Oh yeah my son is starting kindergartner September 8th (the day I hope to go in labor) and I'm about 80% ready for that but only 20% ready mentally. He's still my baby, my almost 5 year old (Aug9th) baby. He's gonna still be a baby to me when hes 21. He is my first and me and him are so close. Now I'm gonna have 3 BABIES forever. I don't see Arie as a baby, He's my little man. He's so independent, sometimes I feel like he has an old soul. Although Jacob is the oldest I see Arie as being the oldest. I love my mini family ^_^

My babe graduated...He is officially a soldier!

I'm so happy for him! He has been away from his family for 3 months, but it was for a great reason. I'm 29 weeks pregnant now and I feel great, but something feels different. I think my baby girl is now head down, or something. I have more movement from her side, but I'm also getting more movement from my boy. I feel my little Zevy stretching and it kinda feels like they are fighting all the time. Zevy will move then Zolie will go nuts and vise vera. I think they have no more space to move freely without disturbing the other.

29 weeks today!

I'm about 80% ready

28 weeks

My babe is graduating !!!!!!

He is finish with Basic Training, and he graduates tomorrow. I couldn't make it sadly but I'm so happy for him. He called me today and I seriously felt like my heart was melting, I love him so much. We have been sending mail back in fourth but now when he goes to AIT we will be able to talk or webcam!

OMG

I lost my ring around April when I use to live in Connecticut, BUT I JUST FOUND IT, at my moms house?!?! I remember I took it off and put it down on our couch, then the kids came near me on the couch and I totally forgot I put it on the couch till the next morning. But by then the kids already played on the couch so anything could of happened to it. My husband thought I threw it away (early pregnancy crazy hormones) but I knew I didn't but I thought the boys put it somewhere. So today me and my mom switched rooms and I had my nephew take apart the couch so he could move it and POW it was there. It was under the couch, UNDER! I never looked there but omg I was so happy. Its a simple little ring but it means so much to me. I can't wait to tell Tim, he's not going to believe it. When me and Tim moved we moved that couch down stairs to the car and then out the car to my mom's apartment and it never feel out the couch that whole time. I guess it wasn't meant to say lost ^_^

28 weeks and 5 days

SUPER FUN DAY!

Me and my mom went shopping for the babies together. We went to 4 different stores (Cookies, Burlington, Babiesrus, Target) and got some great deals. I got receiving blankets, winter blankets, a snuzzler, a cute changing pad, socks, towels and some other stuff. I compared prices online to the ones in stores, and I saved 60 bucks by shopping in the stores, that is amazing. 

We saw some double strollers in Babies r us and they are freaking huge, it looks like I'm pushing a little bus around. So me and my mom kinda agreed on getting a baby trend snap and go stroller frame and two baby trend car seats. I also saw a women with the stroller I'm going to convert to when they are a little older and I love it even more. I think I talked to about 6 people about my pregnancy today, and everyone said I was so tiny to be 7 months (28 weeks) with twins. I don't feel small at all, I feel HUGE! It was beautiful weather today in the Bronx which made the day better. I walked so much today and had no pain or discomfort till the end. I have a doc appointment tomorrow at 9:45 am so I need to get my butt to sleep ^_^ 

On March 2,1955 my mother and her twin sister Beverly were born. Sadly Beverly didn't survive, she was a little smaller than my mother. I think they were fraternal twins, cause the twin gene only runs on the female side and I think my mother has a cousin or aunt that were twins too. Is it weird that I'm a little paranoid  about my twins all the time? I always feel Zola but sometimes Zev doesn't move at all. Zev is the bigger one and his heartbeat is a little slower than his sister (maybe cause he is so calm) and Zola's heart rate is faster (she is always on the move in there) and a few ounces smaller. I'm so attached to them already and I love them with all my heart. I'm healthy and the babies are too, so why am I so worried?

Last night was horrible.

I couldn't sleep at all, every position was very painful. If I lay on my left side, I get a sharp pain up near my ribs. Doctors usually tell you to lay on your left side to help with circulation, but it hurts me. I can't lay on my back cause I can't breathe, I literally feel like I'm chocking. Then if I lay on my right side my back gets a sharp pain in it, and my right arm goes numb. Nothing is comfortable, NOTHING! I kept waking up every 20 minutes, I felt like I was going to cry a few times, I was just so frustrated. I feel like my body isn't made for twins, but thank god I'm towards the end, kinda. 10 weeks or less away. I'll be 35 weeks September 3rd and 37 weeks September 17th, and twins are usually born around 35 to 37 weeks. I keep having dreams about the number 13, so maybe September 13th, which is weird cause its in the middle of the 35th and 37th week. I just hope it does't mean August 13th ( I'll only be 32 weeks). I have a prenatal appointment Thursday and a sono on 30th of this month. So hopefully I get some answers, or is this all normal for someone carrying twins.

Israel and Palestine

My husband is half Jewish and has family that lives in Israel (my babies are a quarter Jewish) and I don't know how to feel about this. I haven't been able to talk to my husband about it because he's still in Basic Training. This seems like a bunch a mess and there is too many deaths. There are over 100 deaths so far that are not Israeli (they are some Israeli deaths too) . I just saw the most disturbing photos of children burned from the bombs. There are many problems between these cultures that won't be fixed over night but I feel like Israel isn't trying to help the situation. I'm not anti Israeli, my husband is part of that culture, my children will be as well, but somethings gotta change. I've read so many anti Israeli articles, and they want people to boycott there products and such. But maybe that is not the answer. Try to put yourself in these people shoes. Hearing bombs, friends or family members dying, and not knowing if tomorrow will come. How will you feel if your son or daughter saw a mother or father holding their lifeless child crying out for help. Your child will have so many questions, that no child should ever ask. How will you feel if a bomb hit your house and you found your children dead. This is a problems everywhere that nobody should ever experience.Dizzy Wright- World peace.

40 Inches around :)

Heartburn?

Not sure if this weird feeling is heartburn but its like a burning feeling around my ribs. I had this before and I think its my uterus expanding upwards.  I felt Zev recently which was super exciting, I was a little worried cause all I feel is Zola moving around. Zola is higher up then Zev and I still think she is breech so maybe that is why I feel her every 30 minutes. She is VERY active, I wonder if their behavior in the womb reflex there personality later in life. Zev is going to be like Jacob, which is mellow and Zola is going to be like Arie (my step-son) which is a little more hyper, he always has so much energy ^_^ I want a little calm girl. I don't think I was bad as a kid, spoiled maybe but not bad. Jacob acts like me, when I was a child. ^_^

27 weeks today

I'm not having a baby shower

I don't have much people to invite and I don't have a location. So there is no point, plus doesn't someone else suppose to plan the shower.

Braxton Hicks and 3rd trimester

Everyday I get that pain that reminds me how painful labor is going to be. Now that I'm in my third trimester I think this is going to happen every day. I have a appointment next week and I need to talk about this pain. The last time I got this pain was two days before J was born. But I've heard braxton Hicks come earlier and more painful for women that are having multiples. I have about 8 to 12 weeks left. Am I ready....not really but I can't want to see their cute little faces.

I feel huge but...

Im only 39.5 inches around my belly.

26 weeks

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Names

Zola Clair and Zev Blair... hmmm kinda like that.