Crappy Week

This whole week has been horrible.  I've waking up nauseous and feeling excessively tired... I'm wondering if I'm going through a growth spurt?  My tummy is still 36" wide, but my belly feels heavy. We met with our potential home builder today and signed up for Direct Buy yesterday.  There's so much going on.  I feel like things are such a blur. 

I can't wait until things slow down and return to a semi-normal pace. 

I hate this weird taste that is in my mouth.  I've been chewing a LOT of gum.  I rarely chewed gum before being pregnant. Now I have at least 2 -3 a day.  Hallelujah!  I no longer have to take any more extra meds... just my multi-vitamin and Iron supplements, plus Diclectin.

I'm really hoping all this nausea will go away soon.  Not sure how much longer I can really take this...

11 weeks and 2 days

 I can't wait until all this nausea goes away.  I hate not being able to wear normal clothes.  I have a 36 inch waist now. One of my friends suggested I create a time lapse video of my belly. What a great idea! I did take photos last week but I forgot to include the tape measure... now that I look back at the photos, I don't know how "appropriate" they look since I do look like a whale... =)

I did feel like crap this morning and still went to work... but at least I will take a day to recover tomorrow. I'm going for another ultrasound and NT (Neck Thickness) test next Wednesday. I feel like time seems to pass slowly when you're pregnant... maybe it's because I have feeling so "slow" and crappy...

It was funny when I found out a male staff member asked another female teacher if they had noticed me putting on extra weight.  To which, the female said, "What? You know she's pregnant with twins, don't you?"

My first trimester will be up next Saturday, so I can officially announce to everyone about my pregnancy at the end of this week and I will get to stop all these extra meds... how awesome will that be!

Getting Bigger

Yikes!  I just noticed 2 days ago that my belly button is disappearing!  I have also gained at least 15 pounds. When I went to visit my GP on Friday, she mentioned that I have the belly of 16 week single pregnancy!  I was only 10 weeks when I saw her!

We are settling into our new temporary home. It's not as bad as we had first envisioned it being.  We cut back and have brought the bare bones of what we need.  I guess we really don't need much... =)
Still feeling nauseous and I can't wait until these symptoms go away...

So Far So Good

I had my 8 week ultra sound last Friday, August 23, 2013.  My doctor said everything was looking great... 2 very strong heartbeats and they were both growing at a healthy rate.

This week has been busy. We've been trying to box up as much as we can and are slowly moving things to various homes (a special thank you to our dear relatives who have given up valuable room in their homes for our stuff). I've been back to work, a few hours, a few days a week for the past 2 weeks.  I forgot how much stuff I had to sort through because of the new flooring and lack of time at the end of June.

In terms of health, I'm doing way better. I have my good days and my bad ones... thankfully more good than bad.  I hear this "yucky" feeling will go away after the 1st trimester... I am looking forward to this!  I will be going for another blood test in 2 weeks to check up on my iron levels and I should schedule for another ultrasound (around 11-12weeks).

An Aweful Night...

I woke up at 3:15 this morning. I decided to go downstairs for some Tylenol because I was feeling rather nauseous and crampy. By the time I swallowed the pills and headed back to bed, I was in agonizing pain.  I woke up my poor husband as I could not stand my pain and I could hardly breathe. He, of course, was freaked out.

I was so uncomfortable. I couldn't lie on the bed; I couldn't sit and I could barely stand up. At some point, I was even rolling on the floor!  Then within minutes, I was at the toilet hurling for 5 minutes.  I felt minimally better at that point.

My cramps calmed down after another 20 minutes while my dear hubby rubbed my back with VapoRub. By now it's 4:00am. Both of us are confused. I'm scared that I'm going to have a miscarriage... luckily we are scheduled for an ultrasound this afternoon.

I had my sister drive my to my ultrasound appointment since Wil was scared that I might get into an accident if I drove myself.  This time I made sure Wil was videotaping the ultrasound! We saw 2 heart beats! Yay! It's official! We have twins!  They are growing at a healthy rate, 6 weeks, 5 days old.  We scheduled another ultrasound for next Friday.

So, as aweful as this morning was, at least the babies are fine.

Crazy Beta HCG

I just had another Beta HCG done today. My level is crazy! 65000! This had me worried so I "googled" it.  Most people are reporting that this is about right for a twin pregnancy.

My first ultrasound is on Thursday.  I can't believe it's only been 4 weeks since conception. My belly is definitely not getting smaller and I am going to have to invest in some new bras over the next few days.  I haven't been able to wear underwire bras since last week and my pants are definitely tighter.  I'm just thinking that this is way too fast for me to be losing my figure! =)

This is a picture of a 4 week old embryo.

Beta HCG Levels & Drugs Galore

Since coming back (approx. 5 days), I have seen my GP twice. I was catching a cold and dealing with major nausea, cramping, whole body "achiness", insomnia... it was bad. I haven't been eating these last 2 days... absolutely no appetite.  My beta HCG for  Thursday, August 1 was over 4000! Crazy!  This a great sign for twins! I have an ultrasound scheduled with my local fertility doctor on August 15th. That's when we'll know for sure.

But my iron levels are super low.  This makes sense as to why I have no energy to do anything! So my GP is prescribing Iron supplements.

My drug/hormone/vitamin load is absolutely ridiculous right now.  I think I'll get full just eating these pills. Starting tomorrow I will be officially ingesting 13 pills a day! This is a combination of Estrogen, Various types of Progesterone, Iron, Preg Vit 5 and anti-nausea pills... thank God I am not officially working yet...

I believe I have actually recovered from the whole time zone change!  However, Wil is struggling with that...