Category Archives: Parenting

There is no way I’m going to be able to have these babies vaginally. This is fairly depressing for me, because I was so looking forward to a natural home birth. There’s only one doctor in town that will even consider doing triplets vaginally, and everybody else thinks he’s a little nuts. When you think […]

Hopefully the doctors will be able to tell the babies apart at birth. In other words, we’ll know who was Lefty and who was Sleepy. Since they are in separate sacs, they should stay in the same place and be identifiable. Plus, the later ultrasounds will be able to judge weight fairly accurately. Since it’s […]

Brian and I have been married for five years, and when we got married we said we would wait five years before having children. It worked out perfect, even though we started trying a year early. The first few months we were on the fertility drugs, my mother kept saying I was too young to […]

I guess it’s not too surprising that I’m already feeling the babies move. From what I’ve been reading, moms of multiples feel movement much earlier than moms of single babies. It’s not uncommon for twins to be felt around 12 weeks, and I would swear I’ve been feeling flutters since 10 weeks. I just love […]

Lately, I feel like my life revolves around sleep. I get 7 or 8 hours a night before I have to take Brian to work, then usually wind up taking at least a 3 hour nap in the afternoon sometime, and I’m still tired in the evenings, although I usually manage to stay up then […]

I’m looking forward to my next appointment on Wednesday. I’ll be far enough along then that I’m hoping the doctor will be able to tell the sexes. I’m really getting spoiled; every time I go in I get an ultrasound, and pictures and video to take home with me. I don’t know what I’m going […]

I can already feel the babies moving around, quite a bit sometimes. It feels like a “thumping” inside my tummy. Every day it gets more distinct, more definite. It’s hard to describe exactly what it feels like. Sometimes it’s like gas or just general intestinal movement, only I know it’s not because my intestines aren’t […]

I think the egg must have split once, and then one half split again, if the babies are identical. At least, none of my biology teachers ever told me a cell could split three ways at once! Brian would just love to have identical babies. I think we’ve finally worked out an arrangement for bedrest. […]

After all the research and reading I’ve done, I’ve decided that I need to gain 75 pounds by the end of the pregnancy to help ensure that I have some big babies. It sounds like a lot, but it’s not really when you consider the recommendation for one baby is usually around 25 pounds or […]

I took my rings off just a couple of weeks after I found out I was pregnant, because I could already feel them getting a little snug (I had lost weight before so they were loose) and I didn’t want to forget about it and get stuck with them on. Last week I was feeling […]