belly/baby pics

here is the 37 week belly. (yeah, i know i have no head & its a 3/4 view... N isn't the best photographer & i was in a rush to shower after being in the garden all afternoon. so i figured a bad picture was better than none!)& for fun, here's the boys at 37 weeks, not quite 3 weeks old & still in the NICU. so tiny & sweet.... makes me look forward to meeting #3 all the more, especially since we'll get to take 3 home with us right away! :)

Twin v. Singleton Belly: Part VII

33 1/2 weeks with #3. (yeah, i'm in pj's & look crappy. everyone will just have to deal with it!)

& 30 weeks with the boys. this was the last belly pic i took with the guys, since shortly after this i started getting really sick with pre-e, & we were in & out of the hospital way too much to think about things like belly pics.
i think i look similarly big, i'm just carrying REALLY differently. believe it or not, at this point with the guys, i was actually measuring past 40 weeks. & conrad was pretty much living in my rib cage. ah, good times! carrying 1 at a time is SOOOOOO much easier, even when it sucks.

& i have to say, i'm ready not to be pregnant anymore. no, i don't want to rush 3-- as far as i'm concerned, 3 can take all the time the baby wants, since we are totally unprepared still. i just mean i'm looking forward to the end of the summer, when (hopefully) i will be sleeping a bit again & will have lost (some) of the baby weight & will generally be feeling less like a small planet. i will have been pregnant or recovering from being pregnant for pretty much 2 years straight by the time 3 gets here, & i'm ready for a break!!

more preggo belly pics (yup, Twins v. Singleton belly, Part VII

ok, THIS is the belly i've been trying to show! i usually wear baggier things at home, so the clothes kind of mask the enormousness of the belly. i wore something a bit more clingy yesterday & scared the crap out of N. he must not have been looking at me much recently, bc when i asked him to take this picture, he gasped & yelled-- "WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU?" cracked me up. (& val is in this pic bc we were going out to dinner & he was insiting on being held.)

me with #3 at 28ish weeks:

me with the dudes at 28 weeks:

Twin v. Singleton Belly: Part V

here i am 24 weeks with the boys...

& here i am 24 weeks with #3...

totally think i look just as big with this ONE baby as i did with TWO last year... sigh...

Twins v. Singleton Belly: Part IV

here i am at 23 weeks with #3.

& at almost 23 weeks with the dudes.
i feel like i'm about the same size still.... but i do think this one is hanging out lower. or maybe i'm a tad smaller finally? my butt is definetly huger this time tho... sigh... at least N is a butt guy.

twins v. singleton pics: part III

i still don't feel like posting much, so i'm cheating by posting more pictures! eventually i'll post something of substance again...

here's me at 19 weeks with the boys:

& me at 19 weeks with #3. i think they're close to the same... maybe slightly bigger with the dudes....

belly pics: twins v. singleton part II

me with #3 at (almost) 18 weeks. the sweater kind of hides the tummy, but trust me, i'm not normally that big!

15 weeks with the boys. yeah, i know this shoudl be an 18 week picture, but thsi is the closest i had. i really suck at remembering to take belly pics, so they're all sporadic. still, i think i'm kind of the same size at 18 weeks with 1 as i was at 15 weeks with 2.

Fun with Pictures: Twins vs. Singleton, Part I

13 weeks with the twins

13 weeks with a singleton (thanks amanda for the shirt!)

8 weeks with twins (& rafter, aka chunk the cat clawing my leg)

8 weeks with a singleton (with scouty chewing on my fingers, & yes, that's a baby bump, i'm not that plump normally!) there are no pics between weeks 8 & 13 with this pg, bc i am lame. i'll try to document better in the future, but i was flaky with pics for the twins too... regardless, i thought i few comparison shots throughout would be fun (for me at least!)

Guess This Explains Why I've Been So Tired...

1st beta: 53
2nd beta: 167 SURPRISE! still trying to wrap my head around this... will post more when i'm coherent...

please, if you "know" me in any venue other than this (i.e. facebook, twitter, real life, whatever) do NOT mention this anywhere but here. It's very early, we don't have the best track record & i don't want the world to know yet.

(later same day edit) it occurred to me that i should answer some basic questions here, even if i'm not ready to "talk" yet.... no, we weren't trying... yes, i was on the pill (well, the mini-pill)... yes, we're totally shocked... yes, of course we're worried, our history with pregnancies sucks... & yes, we ARE cautiously happy.