We are uneventfully entering our 2nd trimester. WHEWWWWWW! (Insert very big sigh of relief here)
All
is going well with FB and our little ones. We had our Nucal Fold
Thickness scan ( just a fancy term for testing for Down Syndrome and
other chromosomal defects of the fetuses by looking at the fluid around
the neck) done at the delivering hospital just the other day and the
results were GREAT!!! Baby A is measuring about 5 days smaller then
Baby B, Fetal heart rates are 150 and 152 and both have a nasal bone and
all that other good stuff they look for. Basically both look great and
the scan report says all is well in utero.
Our
official due date now by ultrasound is August 24, 2011. That is 2 days
before Blaze's birthday ( he was 3 weeks early). Now it is unlikely
that they will go to the full 40 weeks, but still Blaze's siblings will
be almost 2 years apart from him. I think that is the perfect age
difference.
We are trying to prepare...once again. A
little part of me is REALLY hoping we have at least one boy, since I
went a little crazy with clothes, shoes, hats and little boy stuff for
Blaze. It would be such a shame to not be able to use it all again
since it is basically all like-new.
The big question
always seems to be the same..."So, do you know what you are having?" And
our answer still and always remains the same..."Not until they are
born." It gets some strange looks but when we explain the policy of
India it usually changes to a smile and, "Wow that's a great surprise!"
Truly I am just hoping and praying for 2 healthy babies no matter what
sex. We are already listing our favorite names and have to come up with
2 of each...not such an easy task. After all we do have a 'Blaze' and I
don't think a 'Joe' or 'Jane' sounds just quite right.
It
feels all so strange to be going through this journey again. Same
similar feelings when the emails and phone calls come through from
India, your heart skips a little beat. We have decided to make our 3
car garage into a 2 car garage and build an enclosed play room with
access to the house, for the kids. A pretty big task to take on.
Blaze's rain-forest themed nursery will now be the twins (with a little
work on refinishing the crib since Beaver Blaze made work of that). It
is a gender neutral theme so we can't go wrong. So, Blaze will move
next door into one of the spare bedrooms. We are still deciding on a
theme for him, but Gerry found a cool Firetruck bed on Craigslists and
we thought that might be a slightly easier chore then the months of work
put into the nursery.
We are feeling slightly more
comfortable with the process of India, etc. since this will be our
second time around. But it will be almost 2 years since our last visit,
so we are preparing for any changes as with the bureaucracy of India we
are sure some have occurred.
I am a little more
relaxed at this part of the journey, but much more anxious about the
coming months and the fact that we will now have 2 newborns and a
toddler in tow. I think I am having anxiety attacks regularly when I
start to think about all of it. I now can officially say I am freaking
out. Excited, but super duper scared and anxious of doing it all again
times 2, plus 1. Oh my...just typing it, makes my heart race. Now
Gerry on the other hand is Mr. Cool Cucumber...'We will be fine.' 'How
hard can it be?' 'I am sure we will have struggles, but everything will
be okay.' Yes, as always, I am the glass half empty and he is half
full. We make a great team though, as we certainly meet somewhere in
the middle with us both being at either ends of the spectrum of
feelings. I suppose only time will tell, and in my eyes time is flying
by.
So without further ado... here are our perfectly precious babes:
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