Swoon

Little man hands...

I will blog again

I swear I will blog again...soon.

I'm just starting to find my groove and once I'm more settled I intend to blog more regularly. I hate when people abandon their blogs and I am going to try my darnedest not to!

I will write a more in depth birth story but for now here goes:

I went into L&D on May 7th in the afternoon- I steadily dilated without pain to about 8-9cm. I stalled a bit at that point so I had pitocin at around 8 o'clock that night- I was wheeled to the OR and began pushing. 3 hours later Oliver (5lb 13 oz) was born followed by an easy 4 pushes for Harrison (6Lb)!
They were born just before midnight and almost didn't have the same birthday! We made it by 4 minutes!

My mom and husband were my coaches and they were amazing. We have since settled in at home and am slowly figuring everything out. They certainly have very distinct little personalities!

HAVING BABIES!!!!

At the internal this morning I am dilated to 5cm!!!!

They are sending me into L&D to have the babies!!!!!

Hoping for a quick and speedy and delivery!!!!!

Drumroll please...36 weeks!!!

I found this diagram on baby center, at that point I was 24 weeks- I clicked through and couldn't imagine getting this far! The sideshow stops at 36 weeks!!!
Every week I would go back and check my progress, well after today there is no more checking, I've reached my goal! At this point the boys are a week from full term for a singleton. Meaning it is highly unlikely that we would have any NICU time!!!!!!!

I have an appointment this afternoon- hoping I've made some progress!

MAY DAY!!!!

It's May and I am still pregnant!!! Amazing!

My belly has taken on a new shape- it's squared off on the bottom due to the two sets of shoulders jammed in there- pretty interesting.

I've been upping my activity to get things moving so I can avoid induction. Today I went to visit my friends Jenny and Eric at their shop The Red Awning and made some scent beads to have in the hospital. Lavender/Lemondrop was my mixture of choice- it's both uplifting and soothing which I'm guessing will be the perfect combo for labor! If you haven't been to The Red Awning you should go, the blending bar is so much fun you can mix up any scent you like into virtually any product- you can even recreate your favorite perfume and save tons of cash...
I then headed over to Lindsley's greenhouse and bought my goodies for this years pots and veggie garden. Once Bubba gets home from work, it's planting time!

In other news- I have not had a drop of caffeine this entire pregnancy but those McDonalds frappe commercials were killing me so I indulged and got a small one today- dear heavens the thing is absolute pure ecstasy!!! I looked up the nutrition facts and it has 6 grams of protein in it so it's virtually a health drink! ;)

I'm hoping by the end of the day my water will break and I will get to run around the house yelling "May Day!!!!!!!!"