I did an absolutely terrible job of tracking my pregnancy with the twins. I was overloaded with lots at work, raising Colbie (and her strong independent personality) and the thought of bringing two more babies into our lives. So by terrible I mean I did not track it at all! I have VERY few pictures, but here we go…

I did occasionally take notes for myself of things I wanted to remember or felt were somewhat noteworthy. Here are some of the “points of interest” of being pregnant with twins- at least my unique experience.

*Morning sickness was terrible, but once I was over that I felt pretty freaking amazing for housing 2 human beings inside my body. And I only landed myself in the hospital once for the terrible nausea- after that I took prescription nausea medicine for the first trimester so I could survive.

*I did not gain nearly as much weight as I thought I would, but the size of my belly was almost unbelievable. We would look at it daily towards the end just in complete awe. I ended up only gaining 5-10 pounds more with this pregnancy than I did with Colbie. This picture was taken a few DAYS before the boys were born. If it looks painful its because it was there towards the end!

*Although my pregnancy was amazing- very easy, I was healthy and fairly active the whole time- by 30ish weeks I became pretty miserable and uncomfortable. Like cry at night because I didn’t think I could take it much longer. I was short of breath, no position in bed was comfortable and walking was seriously annoying. BUT I know I was very blessed in how not-difficult things were compared to many twin mamas. And NO bed rest! Woo hoo!

*The movement I felt with the twins was INSANE! I still think Colbie was my most active baby inutero, but having 4 legs, 4 arms, 4 ELBOWS moving around is a pretty crazy experience. Feeling movement on one side of your body and the complete opposite side simultaneously is weird. Yes, amazing, but just weird.
I could not tell which baby was moving- many people were curious about this. I just knew someone was moving.

*SO MANY DOCTOR APPOINTMENTS- I didn’t even have a difficult pregnancy and I felt like I lived at the dr. office towards the end.

*I never got tired of people’s reactions to seeing me this huge and pregnant walking around with little Colbie at my side. By the time Colbie was just over one and I was 2 months away from having the boys it got really fun. I looked like I was going to pop any minute and people would see my 1 year old and ask when I was due. Then when I got around to the part about it being twins their eyes usually get really big! Nobody ever knew what to say except “wow, you sure will have your hands full”

Two of my favorite people hosted a gender reveal party for us to find out with family & friends what the 2nd baby was. Were we having boy/boy twins or boy/girl twins??

Lauren & my mom put together this amazing party! The pictures show how fun and thoughtful this event was much better than I could describe in words. (Even though we already knew there was 1 boy I could not just celebrate ONE baby- so we popped an individual balloon for EACH baby- these babies may be twins, but they are individual people and we will treat them that way!)

2 BOYS it is!