Twin Pregnancy - 33 weeks - Loving Our Messy

When I was pregnant with both of my boys, I had an incredibly vivid dream that I had given birth and was holding my brand new baby. In my dream, Caleb was a fair skinned blond haired baby. Which he turned out to be. In my dream of Eli, he was a dark haired, darker skinned baby. Which he was. This week I had another incredibly vivid dream that I was holding our first twin who had the sweetest, fair skin. In my dream my doctor handed the baby to me and said “we didn’t expect this, but the first twin weighs 8 pounds 8 ounces” (!!!). I woke up before giving birth to our second baby and the first thing I thought was that I never asked if the baby was a boy or a girl! Pregnancy dreams are so crazy. I wonder if this one will prove partially true? I also continue to dream that we have boy/girl twins and name them Jack and Lily. (Neither name is on our list.)

I’ve heard that with twin pregnancies, you get to a point where you just hit the wall. Meaning, a point where the pregnancy gets really tough and this week I totally hit that wall physically and mentally (and emotionally!) I was actually thinking that maybe I was going to be exempt- not so much. It’s getting so much harder everyday to do life and motivate myself to keep on trucking. Approximately every minute I’m at work I think about starting my maternity leave but that equals less time with my babies once they are home. So on we go.

Josh finished building the boys their new bunk beds and now they are painted and ‘the best thing that has ever happened in our house!’. They have been sharing a room for a couple months now by choice so now they have the new beds to make it official.

We also had another ultrasound at our appointment this week to check on the monkeys. After being close in weight this whole time, they have started to get further apart. Twin B who is now presenting is around 5 1/2 pounds and Twin A is around 5. Our OB has now changed her guess and thinks we have one of each but I’m not so sure. The ultrasound went great otherwise. Everybody is happy and healthy in there! Seeing them move on the monitor is still amazing and I can’t believe they still think they have so much room to do that…