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”