15 weeks 2-3 days

Hello,

I have decided to post more since I am feeling better and I plan on using this to doctument my pregnancy.

Yesterday, I think I felt baby C kick me in the rib. I was sitting at the computer and typing. I don't know what else it could have been if it were not a kick. I could honestly say I have never felt anything like it before.

I have started to take my prenatal vitamins in the morning. I was having trouble taking them in the evening and I found that I could only take the bigger of the two pills. I believe that the other pill would be nice if I could take but I can't so I am not going to force myself to take it.

I have started to think about how I am going to doctument the children's development. I have a few ideas but I would really like to find something where I could just fill in the blanks rather then creating something from scratch. My years as a nanny have taught me that simpler is better. I have already created a chart to track what each child is doing day to day. I feel that at the begining the children will not always be taken care of by me and I don't want one to only do one activity all day inadvertantly. This will also allow me, or other people, to write intresting things about what that specific child did that day. This will help me when later (my guess is much later) I create baby books for each of them.

Other then that not much new to report. The weather here is hot and humid so I am just staying inside with the AC on.

That is all for now!

Jennifer

Oh by the way, the reason why I have 15 weeks 2-3 days is because the last ultrasound showed the children one day ahead of schedule as far as growth.

My belly at 14 weeks 5 days

Hello Everyone!

It has taken me some time to do this but here I am. I wanted to find an outfit that I could wear for a "before" and "after." Unfortunately I am the one normally taking pictures in this family so there are very few of me!!

The "before" picture (Tony and I together) is from right after we got engaged. Granted this may not be the best before photo since I gained 10 pounds to get pregnant in the first place. At any rate you can see that I have a relatively flat tummy.

The "after" picture was taken just a few minutes ago. The surprised look on my face is just me making sure Tony was using the camera correctly. Like I said, I normally am the one taking pictures.

In both of the photos I am in fitting clothes so it shouldn't be too hard to see the differance.

That is all the news I have for now!
Jennifer

I had trouble uploading the pictures. Sorry for the post being a few days old already. Not much has changed with me though.

Hello it is Jennifer talking this time!

Hello,

I thought I would post a message on here since I haven't done so in a while. As you can see we posted pictures of the babies yesterday. I thought I would also give some other information since people have commented that it took us a long time to post between pictures.

I have 2 appointments set with the doctor.

The first is a cervix check on June 8th. They do this via way of ultrasound, we are hoping that they will also check to see what we are having at that time as well! I am unsure if they will give us more ultrasound photos then or not. For those of you that are curious my May 18th cervix was 4.4 cm.

The second is on July 6th. This is my "level 2" ultrasound. To my horror I have found out that this is to check if there is anything physically wrong with the children. I am told that they take many measurements of the babies and I should expect that the ultrasound will take 30 minutes per child, at least! Obviously if we are unable to tell what they are on June 8th we will know on July 6th.

As Tony has said, the babies are all doing well and I am holding up as well as can be!

For those of you that are curious we have registered for some items at Babies R Us. (www.babiesrus.com if you would like to look online.) This is mostly for Tony so he know what I want after the children are born and I can't get out, however if anyone wants to purchase things feel free to do so! We will not turn anything away! Along these lines I also want to point out that I am looking for a yellow rubber duck that is sealed (no water can get in) and squeaks. I know that they exist but I can't find one. If you know where I can find one PLEASE let me know!!!

We will be assigning colors to the babies once we know what we are having. This will help us easily identify them when they come home from the hospital even though none are identical. I figure that regardless of how many mothers may protest, most babies look alike when they are born, so we are going to need all the help we can get for that. My goal will be to have at least one item of their clothing have the said color on it at all times. (Tony wants to magic marker their feet, I told him no!!)

I hope to have a picture taken of myself soon so you can see my belly. Many are curious on how I have changed. For those of you that don't know, I am in maternity clothing already.

Oh, one last thing on the children, the babies all measured a day ahead of where I am. I don't know if that will change my "due date" or not I just thought I would mention it.

That is all the news I have for now. Talk to you all later!!

Jennifer

13 weeks 3 days

We went in for another check-up on Thursday, May 18. The babies look like miniature people now! The pictures on the blog don't do them justice. All were very active. Baby B has already found its thumb, and we could see him or her sucking on its thumb. Then Baby B arched his/her back. While this was going on, Baby A was busy kicking Baby B in the head. Baby C was the hardest one to get pictures of. He/she turned his/her head towards the probe when the technician was scanning, and every time the tech tried to get a still image, he/she disappeared! (And here I didn't think there was enough room to hide - especially with two siblings in there!) We finally got pictures of Baby C, as you can see. All three babies have two arms, two legs, hearts, stomachs, and we could see the bladder for one of them. The babies were all ~70 mm long. (~3 inches).

Jennifer is feeling much better. The babies are letting her eat solid food now and she isn't feeling as nauseas anymore.

Tony