A Warrior at Heart: Rock Stars

I go to the doctor every week. This is the highlight of my week. It's the only time that I really get out of the house. I am always so exhausted afterwards that I email Zed the results of the day and either pass our or zone out for basically the rest of the day. I know a lot of you like to know what happened right away, but really, I am completely spent by time I get home. It's kind of crazy, because when I was pregnant with Otis I would get up and drive 1 1/2 hours to my doctor, have the appointment, go shopping at one or more stores, grab lunch and then drive the 1 1/2 hours home. I seriously spent all day out and about. That includes my last few weeks when I was dilated, I walked around at a 5+ with that kid and didn't go into labor on my own. In comparison, yesterday from the time we left the house, had my appointment drove clear across town to pick up my boys and return home was almost exactly 4 hours. And I spent pretty much the rest of the day on my bed--with the exception of going to the kitchen for homemade pizza and brownies. It is so foreign to me to be so weak and tired. Not like I'm normally a wonder woman, but it is obvious to me how much harder this pregnancy is from the others I've had. My whole body just aches. And I am constantly losing muscle mass, which kills me when I think that I've coach and played volleyball pretty seriously since Otis was only a few months old. Doing nothing is great sometimes, until I realize what I can't do and what I'm going to have to do in the gym to be able to compete against my high school girls again!!

(Shout out to KHS Volleyball, I'll be back ready to block you all soon enough! Can't hardly wait to be in the gym with you guys again!)

Well yesterday's appointment reminded me that these little boys are such rock stars! When I emailed Zed I was just so excited to have good news again. These boys are doing better than ever. They are also moving all over. I told him that they were rocking and rolling all through the ultrasound, which made things very difficult for our tech. Yesterday was supposed to be pretty short at the office because they just wanted to monitor the cords again. But when the babies won't hold still at all, and every time the babies move it moves the cords around it takes a while to monitor the babies' cords and blood flow. But in the end the doc said that things were looking great! I love that news!!

Then I had to make sure that all my aches and pains were normal. My muscles and mostly ligaments are so tender and easy to just hurt. Some of the pains seemed familiar, so I assumed they were pregnancy related, but I'm not used to this much intense pain so early on. Don't worry, I can guarantee they aren't contraction pains. The doctor agrees that these are all just pregnancy pains derived from the ligaments being pulled so tight, so quick-- most women feel this in the later half of the 3rd trimester, so I have felt them before. Basically any movement is painful, walking is difficult sometimes, and just laying around I might get intense abdominal pains across the ligaments. They usually last several minutes, or like the other day 45 minutes, so I know it's not contractions. I'm also to the point that walking is starting to be fairly painful. There is just a lot of pressure on my body with these two little rock stars.

But they are moving like crazy. I am feeling kicks and hits a lot now, and they are strong enough that I get to see my stomach moving a few times a day. Loving these babies and the excitement of bring them home has been so much fun as I get good news!