My mother threw me a sweet little baby shower for the family. My sister Alexandrea, my aunt Debbie, aunt Kathy, cousin Kira, a friend of the family, Jeanette, and Kira's friend who made some pretty cakes were there along with my 3 kiddos. I got 2 car seats, a double car seat frame stroller, some clothes, 2 handmade blankets, and some other cute little things. Games were fun. I think I was the first to catch someone saying "twins" or "baby", but I was definitely not the winner! =o) It was nice to see everyone, and it was nice to get out of the house for something other than work. Thank you everyone!

I never knew they gave babies percentiles at this point, but I was given this info because at 95% they are considered Macrosomic (pretty much just means really big, and usually occurs due to poorly controlled GD - fyi my total weight gain is 7 pounds). Until they ever reach that possibility my doc is just considering them extremely happy in their home, but now she is mentioning a planned c-sec. I pushed out 3 pretty average sized babies. I dont understand why I would need a c-sec for this reason alone. Im likely to deliver atleast a few weeks early anyway, right? Of course I will listen to my doctor, but I want to understand this. Not to mention my doctor thought Ashley was super large (I know it was 14 years ago, but not that much has changed I think) and she was born 7lb 8oz at 40 weeks.Im eating even MORE beef (Im getting really tired of it), taking more iron with OJ on an empty stomach, and drinking milk at dinner.Anyhoo, thats what has been going on. I see my doc again on Monday (6/25), and get another US in 3 more weeks. Any bets on how big I will measure this time? lol I measured 33 weeks at my 24 week appt and 27 weeks at my 20.5 week appt. Im going to need an engine hoist to get out of bed soon! haha

26 week appt: Some coworkers were trying to guess what I would measure (for a singleton pregnancy) at my 26 weeks appt. Remember, at my 20.5 wk appt I measured 27 weeks, and at my 24 weeks appt I measured 33 weeks.At exactly 26 weeks I measured 41 weeks!!!! lolIm doing pretty well considering I look (and walk) like a Weeble. BP is good. Still no worrisome contractions. I am getting some swelling in my feet and legs that just wont go away (compression socks here I come). The pressure on my pelvis is getting almost unbearable sometimes. My tailbone feels like its being pushed out of my body. I cant sit, or get up from sitting without a lot of pain. When my doctor did a quick ultrasound to get the babies heartbeats she said one head in on my tailbone, and one on my bladder! I have to use the restroom every half hour to an hour already. That hasnt happened with past pregnancies until the last couple of weeks or so.I met my doctors next goal of 26 weeks on Monday. Her final goal is 35 weeks (Aug 27), but I would love to make it to September. I told her that I think I could stretch to about 57 weeks! hahaI have another long US scheduled for 7/19. I guess we will know for sure if I have to have a c-sec then. I hope not.

Today I got another long look at the babies via ultrasound. Both boys are now head down! Baby A is pressing against my cervix. Baby B's head is higher up with one leg stretched over his brother. They are still facing eachother. I didnt tell the tech the sexes and she said they are very proud boys. lol HB's were 129 and 137. The tech was really good. Usually its kind of painful because they have to push on one baby pretty hard to see around him to get a good view of the baby they want at the moment. The only time it hurt (and this hurt!) was for some reason Baby A wedged himself against my cervix and wouldnt move. The tech couldnt get an image of my cervix so after having my bed tilted upside down for 5 min with no luck, she manually pushed him away. OMG, I was just about climbing off the bed to get away from her! lol I think he is back in his little place again. They are measuring pretty large. The tech asked if Ive had a GD test, and I told her I got the results yesterday from my gestational diabetes test and my score was 97 which is great (I also got my iron count back and is was painfully low - 28, when it should have been ATLEAST 36). I was 25 weeks 0 days and Baby A measured 26 weeks 2 days and 90th percentile, Baby B measured 26 weeks 5 days and 91% (they are both 2 pounds and a couple ounces each).