Weekend Fun

Mom and Kristin came down to visit this weekend to see our new place. We had all three dogs together for the first time, too! Annie and Molly played together and Marco was the ref when things got too rough. Typical. We spent most of the cold and rainy day shopping and exploring Winchester until Zac got home from St. Louis. Then we enjoyed a nice dinner of duck, lamb, Greek pasta, and carpaccio (Kristin unsuccessfully tried to branch out) at this local restaurant in Paris, KY in celebration of all the exciting things happening in our family! Kristin got another promotion at the hospital, mom finished her National Boards, Zac is (almost) ready to open the office and is turning 27 this week, and, well, I am having twins. I think those are all great reasons to celebrate!

On Sunday, Kristin and I went out for another day of shopping. She needed a new wardrobe to go with her new job and I went jealously along as she looked at sleek suit separates that I can only dream of fitting into these days. We went out to lunch at my favorite lunch spot in the Lexington area, The Smashing Tomato. YUM!

What a relaxing weekend :)

Doctor Update

So after some more research on both my doctor and the whole bed rest policy, we decided to switch doctors. I had a consult with another doctor today and WOW was it a positive experience :) She was so optimistic instead of the doom and gloom that I got from our previous doctor. And the best part was that when we asked her about their bed rest policy, her response was "What bed rest policy?" We explained to her what our previous doctor had told us and she was shocked. She said there was absolutely no evidence that showed putting women on bedrest helped reduce the risk of pre-term labor. In fact, it actually was worse for your body. This was exactly what Zac and I had thought and had seen in the research we found, so it was nice to hear someone who was actually looking at what the studies proved instead of an old theory.

She said when the babies are born, I'm going to be running a marathon so now is not the time for my muscles to be atrophied and out of shape...I need to be as active as I can be up until the day of delivery. She also said she doesn't like the term "high-risk pregnancy" for twins because most twin pregnancies are just like any other pregnancy, just a little shorter. Just as long as I remain healthy and don't show signs of any negative symptoms, then it should be treated like any other pregnancy.

What a sigh of relief! Now I feel like I can actually enjoy my summer and pregnancy and be excited about what is to come instead of being worried and paranoid that I'm doing too much. Yay!

Now if we could just speed up the next five weeks of school....

One Boy...One Girl...

"...Two hearts beating wildly..." For those country music fans, you should now have some pretty cheesy lyrics floating around your head. I have nothing but true true joy and thankfulness floating around in mine. After staring at them for an hour and a half as the ultrasound measured everything from their brain to their toes, they seem very real to me now. And, most importantly, they are 100% healthy, cute babies.

We celebrated by buying an outfit for each one :)

Here I am at 19 weeks!