Nursery!

So blogger is not letting me upload photos right now. If you are friends with me on facebook I put some pictures up in my Baby Anderson #1 & #2 album instead for right now. I will try to get blogger to cooperate later this week. Sorry!

UPDATE: So my computer crashed and along with it disappeared my photos. Temporary delay will be continued. Sorry!

29 weeks and a scare!

28.5 weeks in this pic

•How far along?: 29 weeks

•Total weight gain: 20 lbs

•How big is baby?: The size of an acorn squash!

•Maternity clothes?: I basically live in sweats and Gerry's oversized shirts. I don't fit in anything comfortably anymore.

•Movement: More hiccups. Also retaliation after contractions (More on those a little later)

•Stretch marks?: No one ever told me how sore stretch marks get

•Sleep?: doing surprisingly better this week

•Symptoms?: Heartburn, back pain, rib pain, Braxton Hicks contractions and "real" ones!

•Food cravings: egg salad sandwiches... weird right?

•Belly button in or out?: Off-center outie

•What I miss: Being mobile. Not hurting at my joints.

•What I'm looking forward to: MFM appointment tomorrow! Can't wait to see if babies are still measuring a week ahead and what position they are in (at my OB appointment on Thursday they were both transverse with their heads on my right)

•Best Moment this week: Finding out even though I was getting crazy contractions the rest of my body was fine. All signs point to no early labor at this point! Yay!

•Milestone: Into single digit weeks left! OB said they would induce at 38 weeks (May 20) if Alice and Colette don't come on their own before that.

•Nursery Progress: Basically just need to hang some stuff on the walls and get a few boxes/bins put away. I am about to write a post with pictures. :)

As promised here is my crazy contractions story:

Friday (3/9) I had braxton hicks (BH) contractions all day. These my doctor said would happen and to call if I had more than 4 an hour for 4 hours straight. I had been taking it easy that day and yet they continued. Toward the evening they got more and more frequent and I started having some painful ones. They were anywhere from 10 to 3 minutes apart. I started freaking out a little but not wanting to call my OB since it was 9:45 on a Friday night. Gerry told me I should at least call. So I did. My OB said go to Labor and Delivery and get checked out. In we went. I think we were the only people there on the L&D floor. They hooked me up to monitors and sure enough I was contracting every 2-3 minutes. Not huge ones but they were uncomfortable. They then did a physical check and an ultrasound to make sure nothing was dilating and everything looked good on that front. No sign that these contractions were putting me into pre-term labor. They then did a fetal fibronectin test. Basically if this test is positive you go into labor typically within that week. Mine was negative. A good thing. My blood pressure was high (because I was stressed I think) and so they decided to monitor the babies for a bit. So first we had to find the babies. Every time the nurse would find one and move on to the next one, babies would move. They were having a hard time getting them on the monitors. Also, Alice, usually our calm child from what we can tell via ultrasound, was so mad. She kept kicking the little sensor and so it had all sorts of misreadings since she didn't want it on. Colette kept trying to hide from her sensor. They had been being squished all day from BH and they were done. After each BH both of them would flail around like crazy. My stomach looked like a water bed.

Monitoring came back good and Dr. said to go home, rest, drink lots of water and come back if I had 6 painful ones in an hour. All day Saturday I continued to have BH and it was annoying. My body was so sore from all the tightening. Then on Sunday we went to church and during Relief Society I had 7 painful contractions in 40 minutes. I started panicking again. Gerry took me home. Filled me with water and put me to bed. I guess I had overdone it. Monday the BH seemed to slow and although I have them occasionally still they aren't too bad anymore.

At my OB appointment the babies were transverse laying with their heads together on my right side. They had been head down and my Dr thinks that this move on their part may have caused the contractions to get out of hand. Anyway, I'm doing better now. Drinking my weight in water and babies are staying put. :)

28 weeks

•How far along?: 28 weeks

•Total weight gain: 18 lbs

•How big is baby?: The size of a rutabaga!

•Maternity clothes?: Yes and some maternity shirts are getting too short!

•Movement: Oh yes. They never stop... like never... always on the move. Hiccups are happening more and more

•Stretch marks?: I think I'm part tiger now...

•Sleep?: I get great sleep during naps.

•Symptoms?: Heartburn, back pain, rib pain, the usual. :)

•Food cravings: bready things. Cinnamon rolls, crescent rolls

•Belly button in or out?: Off-center outie

•What I miss: Being able to get up or out of bed easily, laying on my stomach, not getting winded or sore doing anything, being able to get in and out of the car easily.

•What I'm looking forward to: June 3...

•Best Moment this week: realizing I've hit 3rd trimester!

•Milestone: I'm in my 3rd trimester! I'm almost there!

•Nursery Progress: Basically just need to hang some stuff on the walls and get a few boxes/bins put away. I am about to write a post with pictures. :)

27 weeks

•How far along?: 27 weeks

•Total weight gain: 16 lbs

•How big is baby?: The size of a cauliflower!

•Maternity clothes?: Yes and some maternity shirts are getting too short!

•Movement: Oh yes. They never stop... like never...

•Stretch marks?: Let's just say I'm starting to look like a road map.

•Sleep?: It's hit and miss. Not bad when I'm alone and sometimes it's ok with Gerry there. Sometimes not.

•Symptoms?: Heartburn, back pain, rib pain, The waddle has begun

•Food cravings: Strawberries and whipped cream

•Belly button in or out?: Off-center outie

•What I miss: Being able to get up or out of bed easily, laying on my stomach, not getting winded or sore doing anything, being able to get in and out of the car easily.

•What I'm looking forward to: MFM appt on the 19. Hopefully we will get some 3d of Alice this time. Getting the nursery put together!

•Best Moment this week: Going the nursery furniture put together.

•Milestone: There are cribs in my house.

•Nursery Progress: Furniture is together! I will get pictures ASAP!