How twins changed our lives!

This is to give you an idea of what a day in the life with twins is like.
6:00am babies wake to eat and Dustin gets up to go to the Gym
7:30am Kyla wakes up and comes into my room to wake me up and Dustin usually gets home not too long after
8am Breakfast and Dustin leaves for work. Usually the babies are still sleeping so I do the dishes from the night before, I don't do the dishes in the evenings cuz that is time I like to spend with Dustin and I don't want to waste that time cleaning
8:30-9amish Jayci and Presley wake up and lately when I go in their room I peek in their bed and they look up at me with these huge grins, it makes my morning when I see that. So we change bums, feed both, burp both, bath both and get dressed. Then I put them both in the swings and they go back to sleep. I play with Kyla, sometimes shower, or call Kristy. We usually talk at least every other day. I love her.
10:00 Kyla mid-morning snack (she gets grouchy when she is hungry, kind of like her dad! ;)
11:30 start thinking about lunch and what to make
12:00 feed Kyla lunch and change babies bums and feed. I'll do one first if one is waking before the other. I don't usually feed them together, I can and if they are both hungry and I will but I like feeding one at a time, it's more of a bonding time.
12:30 Kyla's naptime and the babies usually go back to sleep too, most of the time one of them stays awake and it's very rare when all three are sleeping, so I enjoy more that ever this time! I clean, shower, make phone calls, go on the computer, or sometimes only like once a month lay on the couch and nap or just rest. I LOVE that time! Oh and I eat lunch around this time finally.
2:30ish Kyla wakes up change her bum and I give her a snack then the babies usually wake up too and I chaneg their bums and feed them too.
3:30 start planning or getting dinner ready
4:30 make sure dinner is pretty close to being done cuz I know the babies will be hungry around 5ish
5:00 rush time, get dinner finished, get kyla dished up and then once again do the baby routine of changing bums and feeding.
6:00 Dustin gets home, eats and showers...oh ya somewhere in all this I eat too, usually when Dustin eats cuz the babies are all settled again and Kyla is happy. Clean up supper and tidy the kitchen
7:30 bath time for Kyla, Dustin usually baths her cuz he plays with her forever and then he gets her dressed and plays with her for a bit. She loves when Dustin gives her attention and I think he loves it just as much as she does.
8:00 babies get changed and eat again and Dustin gets Kyla ready for bed, teeth brushed, read a book, prayers, and tucked in
8:30 Kyla's in bed and babies are fully awake, they usually stay awake from the time dinner is getting ready till bedtime. Dustin and I usually play with a baby and see what is on TV that night, which we rarely get to watch cuz the babies always need something. This is a crazy time cuz the babies are wanting attention so nothing gets done cuz we each have one.
10:30 get the changed into sleepers and take them up to our room. I feed them in our room cuz they know that it's bedtime since i've fed them in there since they were born before bed. I feed one at a time, and Dustin burps them and puts them in their bed
11:30 they are finally in their room in their crib asleep and we get to go get ready for bed and maybe have some together time until I am to tired to even talk and I usually fall asleep...poor Dustin
But that is our day. Not too bad eh? We are very lucky to have such good babies. Of course not every day is the same but that's the jyst(sp?) of it. They usually sleep the entire night until 6am to eat then they go back to bed until "real" morning. I have figured out what I hate to do and thats do dishes and fold laundry. I don't mind doing the laundry but I hate folding it cuz there are so many little things to fold like sleepers, onesies, baby cloths, etc. People usually wonder what it's like with twins and now you all know. I will try and keep this up and let you know as the girls grow, what changes we have. I think this blog is going to be more of a journal for me until we get a new computer cuz I can't upload pictures, sorry. I do put some on facebook every once in a while but until then....enjoy!

Summer

Well I hate not having a computer that works, I can't upload any pictures lately and I'll be surprised if this even works. We are hopefully getting a new one in the next couple months. This summer has gone by pretty quickly. Not too much has happened we just took our first holiday last week and went to Taber and Cardston to see the families. We also got the babies blessed in Cardston on the Sunday. We decided to do a small family blessing after church in the releif society room and it was amazing. I am so glad we did it like that. It was so much more personal and spiritual. We had about 30 people there and it was great. We headed back to mom and dad's after for a light supper and it was so much fun. We were originally planning on blessing them in July when Presley went into the hospital so we had to wait until now. They looked adorable in their dresses and I loved them. I wanted something plain but cute and a little different from eachother so they were perfect. I hope I can upload some pictures on here but I doubt it. We also got to see Brandon and Kristy's little baby Gavin. He is a cutie and it is so weird seeing Kristy as a mom and also having a boy in the family. He is the first boy in our family, it's just to bad they live in Oregon cuz we will hardly get to see him. Distance sucks when you grow up and get married. I'm glad our move here is only temporary only cuz I miss being around my family. I do really like it up here in Fort Mcmurray, anything anyone has ever said bad about up here is wrong cuz we love it. The ward is great, the people are great and you have everything you need up here. We live in a great community and Dustin has an amazing job. We are really happy. So our luck has sort of taken a turn for the better, we rented out our Condo finally and the couple is great that moved in, they are newlyweds so it was perfect for them. We did have one tiny little thing happen, ok it was a big stupid thing. While we were on holidays Dustin's mom and I and the kids went into Lethbridge to do some running around, well our first stop was the wrong place and we came back out into the van and it wouldn't start, yup it broke down. Luckily we were in the parking lot of Canadian Tire. But we had to call and tow company to take our van into the garage of canadian tire, we had to pay $50 for a tow truck to get it around the stupid corner. Anyways it ended up costing $1000.00 to fix our van. Yup we have good luck eh? ha well it could of been worse, we could of been on the highway in the middle of nowhere while we stopped to feed the babies. I guess I just try and look at the bright side of our crappy situations! haha. Well we are back home and happy now and are starting to get ready for Christmas...well thinking of what to get everyone. I realized I need to start planning a lot sooner than I have been especially with how big our family is getting. Well that's a little update on our life lately and i'll try to get more on later, as you see I have one busy life!! But I do love it!

My sick Presley

Man, we just have one thing after another around here for bad luck. First my pregnancy was crappy, then preterm labour and babies in the hospital, then the sale of our house in Okotoks fell through on the day of possesion, and now this. On Monday night last week during the night Presley was crying and was really fussy. She wouldn't go to sleep unless we were holding her so I finally got her to sleep in my arms in bed. I noticed she was pretty warm so I took her temperature and she had a fever. She also didn't like being moved, she was very irritable and would scream everytime someone would move her, so I knew we had to take her in. I called our pediatrician and got in right away that morning. She checked her and couldn't find anything physically wrong so she knew she had some sort of an infection, since she had a fever. She said when babies are that young and preemies they don't accept a fever cuz it usually means something more serious. We took her into the hospital and they had to do a bunch of tests on her, they did blood work, unrine sample, which was sad cuz she had to get a catheder and she had to get a spinal tap done. The spinal is what checks for meningitis. It came back positive and the doctor said her white blood count was the highest she has seen in a long time. She knew it could of turned serious and she told us that. They got her on 3 different antibiotics cuz they weren't sure yet of what kind it was. It came back bacterial menigitis, so they took her off two of the antibiotics and had to be one just one. Her fever stayed for a few days and then slowly went away. It was amazing how fast the antibiotics kicked in, she was so different after about 12 hours. She was more alert and just looking way better. She looked so sick before. We didn't know what to do, Dustin had to work and I had to stay in the hospital with her. I was breastfeeding both babies and Jayci had to go home so luckily I had some in the freezer from the hospital in Edmonton still so Dustin gave her that. Thank goodness my mom and sisters came up and were here from Thursday till today. They saved us. They also went nuts in our house and finished moving us in, they even got pictures hung up! I love my house, it now feels like a home. I am so grateful for their help and I am so happy they came. I called the releif society president and she set things up for this week for help with the other 2 girls since Dustin couldn't miss anymore work. We are still catching up from being in Edmonton and him missing work. The doctor said she had to be on antibiotics for at least 10 days. Yesterday she came in with good news. She said that since she is doing so well and she isn't contagious she could come home on a pass. We have to go in 3 times a day though and get her antibiotics, her IV stays in the whole time though. She gets her meds at 8am, 4pm and midnight. I am so glad we got to bring her home. I am running low on breastmilk and pumping just isn't working to well, it's not the same as them actually nursing. We are now home and have to go back till friday for her meds. The nurses are shocked at how well she is doing. The one nurse said that she has never seen a baby with menigitis do so well and be so alert so quickly. Dustin gave her a blessing the morning we took her in, and then we had Travis and Eamon come and do a sick blessing on her in the hospital. I have a true tesitmony of the blessing and that it helped. I know that that is why she is doing so good. She had no side effects of anything and is doing amazing, she is even still nursing so well. There are so many scary things that can go wrong with meningitis, she could have seizures, deffness (sp), fluid in her brain, and can even be fatal. It was a scary week and i'm glad she is home and it's almost over. I NEVER want to go through having a sick baby again. It was the hardest thing I have ever gone through and I am so grateful I had my family here for help and support. I am thankful for all the kind words from people on facebook, it's so nice knowing people are there praying for us and are there for us even though we are far away. It's scary to think that we have no idea where she got it from and it could of been from the tiniest bacteria. I think I am turning into a bacteria clean freak, I don't want this kind of scare again. I'll keep you all updated on how our week goes.

Kyla all grown up!

I meant to put these up a while ago, these are her 2 year pictures we got done. I can't believe how big she is. I just love her to death!

One Month Old

I can't believe how fast this time has gone. My baby girls are already a month old! They still don't do very much but they are sure amazing to look at and hold. This past week we've been home has been great. They are such good babies, they never cry and when they are hungry they just squawk a bit. They have changed everyday, I used to be able to tell them apart pretty easily but they have filled out so much that they look more alike now than ever! I put them in the same sleepers the other day and Dustin couldn't even tell them apart, and he's the one who always gets it right. They each have a birthmark on the back of their necks, Me and Kyla also have it. Luckily the marks are pretty different looking so we have a way to tell them apart if it got down to that. They are both wearing different colored bracelets and I don't dress them the same, so it makes it easier. I like to keep something different between them, I want them to be their own person and not be exactly the same. Kyla has been so awesome with them, she loves to help with everything from changing diapers to burping and wrapping them up. She is the best big sister. It's crazy we now have 3 girls. Jayci and Presley eat every 4 hours and they are on the same schedule so it works out nice. I think the hardest thing so far is when they are both hungry at the same time and Kyla needs something or is hungry too. I will have to work out some sort of schedule so I can do it all at once...haha ya right. Nights haven't been too bad, they wake up at around 11pm, 3am and 7am to eat so really there is only one time in the middle of the night they eat and it takes about 45 minutes. We change them and feed them and burp them, we make a good team when we do it together, it's all about teamwork! I do feel like I change bums all day though, at least they are cute bums! Well we move into our house next wednesday so for the next week we are getting things organized and ready for that. We are buying a kitchen table and a washer and dryer this weekend and hopefully it'll be here in time.
Well thats an update on how we've been since we got home, there will be more I promise!

Finally here!

Well I am finally home to tell the story...it is a long one. First of all I am so happy to have the girls home and be back with Dustin and Kyla, it was so hard living in the hospital for 3 weeks without them. I am glad we made it through and we can get back to our new happy life.
It all started on Saturday May 24th, we were just about to eat dinner and I noticed some pain in my lower abdomen, nothing like i've had before but it hurt. It would go away a bit but then get stronger so I wasn't sure if it was contractions or not. It got pretty bad so we decided to go into the hospital just to be sure everything was ok. We called up some friends to come watch Kyla for us and we are so so grateful for them doing that for us. We don't know too many people up here and I haven't even been to church to meet anyone, so it was good to know we had someone to rely on to lend a helping hand, thank you Jordan and Mackenzie so much, we appreciate it. So in we went, the pain stopped and Dustin and I were waiting on the Doctor to come and see me. We were joking around the whole time about how many times we went into the stupid hospital and i'll probably just be sent home again so we should just sneak out before the doctor got there! It was funny, anyways he got there and I just so happened to be 2-3cm dilated! We were shocked. They quickly decided to fly me out and we ended up going to Edmonton, there was even talk of going to Saskatoon and Vancouver cuz there was no room anywhere else! Thank goodness we got into the Misercordia hospital in Edmonton and they had One bed for me! Well we got there and everything was stopped so we spent the night in a labour and delivery room and the next morning they moved me into an antipartum bed. They decided I was staying until I had the babies so we were trying to figure out how to get Dustin home to go back to work while I stayed in the hospital. Well Monday cam along and he was going to fly home but there were no flights and so he was gonna take the bus. Well just before he left I started getting some pain in my abdomen again and he asked me if he should go get the nurse and I said "no, i'm sick of making a big deal out of things, let's wait until it is serious." That started at exactly noon and at 1:00 it wasn't really going away so Dustin asked again if he should go get the nurse so I said ok fine. Well she came in and felt my tummy and it was hard and not going soft so they took me into labour and delivery...again. They checked me and I was still 2-3cm so they thought it would stop on its own, they pumped me with fluids to try and stop it too. Well about and hour and a half later they decided to come and get me for a ful hour and a half ultrasound and by then the contractions were pretty painful and I was getting really uncomfortable. So I sat through the entire ultrasound having painful contractions, it wasn't fun. But when we got back to the room they left me for a bit and then checked me and I was 4cm, so I was in true labour. Well they asked what I wanted for pain and I said epidural forsure, but I didn't want it right away. The contractions got really really painful and started getting really close together like a few minutes apart. They called the anesthesiologist and he had to come from home on the other side of Edmonton! Well that was great...by that time my contractions were very strong right on top of eachother and I was in pain. They got me laughing gas and that didn't help at all which was really frustrating cuz as soon as I would stop using it they would have me put it right back on. I wouldn't suggest laughing gas, it never helped with Kyla and it didn't help this time. So that was a little annoying. I was so worn out after 20 minutes of having the strong contractions and finally after an hour he showed up and gave me the epidural and it saved my life! Well the epidural is known to slow down labour which it did and by that time I was 6-7cm, so they figured if this is gonna happen then lets speed it up. So they broke my water and put me on the drip, which they increased every half hour. Well at about 11pm they took me into the Operating Rom jusincase something went wrong and they had to do a c-section. It was a little overwhelming being wheeled into a huge room like that. Well I couldn't feel anything so they told me when I feel pressure or the need to push let them know, just before midnight I started to feel pressure. We were joking around about how it would be funny if one was born before midnight and the other after and they would have 2 different birthdays....I don't really think it would of been funny if it did happen though. So as soon as midnght hit I was happy and thats when I felt it...I was good to go and Jayci was first she cam out in 5 minutes and Presley was 11 minutes after, they were born at 12:10 and 12:21am. It was so fast, I think I pushed 4 times with the first one and maybe 10 with the second cuz she had to come down still. But it was was easier than I thought and went really well. They took them to the NICU and Dustin went to while I got cleaned up etc. It took them forever and I wanted to see them so bad. Finally Dustin came back and I went in a wheel chair, which was difficult cuz I could feel my legs so they had to help me get in. But I finally saw them and it was so awesome. I didn't get to hold them until the next morning though. But they were healthy and a good size. Jayci Dakota Francis was born at 12:10am and weighed 4lbs 11oz and was 16 1/2in long. Presley Taya Francis was born at 12:21am and weighed 4lbs 12oz and was 16 3/4in long. They were so tiny but so beautiful. They didn't need oygen which they were amazed by with how early they were, I was only 33 weeks pregnant to the day. They did n eed to be on feeding tubes, IV's and had to be on monitors. They were jaundice on the 3rd day and had to be under the lights for a couple days. They also were having some Apnea episodes which is where they stop breathing cuz that part of their brain isn't fully developed yet and it's really common in preemies. I didn't know that and I had a hard time when they told me that. It's never easy to hear your baby stops breathing. Presley was worse so they had to put her on Caffeine which helps the Apnea for a couple days. Jayci didn't have as many and she grew out of it pretty quick. They took Presley off the caffeine after a couple days but she continued to have them but not very often. I stayed in the hospital the whole time with them and went for most of the feedings. They started eating on their own fairly quickly and progressed amazingly. They were in their own beds after a couple weeks and holding their temperatures all on their own. They told me to expect to be there until my 40 week due date which was July 15th...a long time. It was hard but I just took it day by day and it really made it easy knowing that they were makin huge progress everyday and they never really went downhill or backwards. Before they got to come home they have to be put in a carseat test where they go in a carseat on the monitors for an hour and a half and they can't have and Apnea or Brads (heart rate drops, they had a couple of these too.) Jayci past it a week before Presley so she got discharged a couple days after passing it, so last wednesday she was able to stay in my room with me. They moved me into a room in the NICU so I could be close to both of them. The weekend was hard cuz if Presley didn't have any episodes for 72 hours and passed the carseat test then we could go home and I wanted to come back with Dustin and Kyla so bad. Luckily she did and we got to bring them home! The last 3 weeks have been hard but I am so grateful for the nurses and other moms that helped me through it. I am so glad to have our babies home and that they are healthy. Presley is back on the caffiene for another couple weeks, just to be safe and they will slowly wean her off of it. We have our first appt tomorrow with the Pediatrician. I love having them home and they are amazing babies, all they do is sleep and eat. It's pretty easy so far, they eat every 4 hours and that is so nice. So far our nights have been awesome and they have even slept for 6hrs each both nights! Pretty crazy. We are moving into our house on July 2nd and I can't wait! I'm so excited! Things are going great. I am so grateful for our new faily of 5 and Dustin is sure a proud dad of his girls. He is so overprotective of them and it is so cute. He is an amazing dad and I am so proud to have him as a husband. Kyla is doing great she loves the girls and helps out like crazy, she gives them their soothers, helps wrap them in blankets, kisses and holds them and helps with the diaper changes. She is quite an awesome big sister. She hasn't even had a jealous episode yet. She is going to be a great big sister. I am doing great, I recovered very quickly and being in the hospital not doing much helped with that. This whole thing has been actually pretty easy for me and I just have been positive through it all. I was pretty emotional the first few days after having them...but who wouldn't be? I actually got addicted to the series of Twilight thanks to Jill, she finally broke me in after telling me for a month to read it. I read the first book in 3 days the 2nd in two and the 3rd in two. I loved them! They got me through this! If you haven't read them then do! I can't wait for the fourth book and movie to come out! Oh and I hate reading! ha Well thats the story, I told you it was long and that was a shorted version of it. I am grateful for the love and support through all of this and couldn't of done it without family and friends. I love my life and I can't believe how blessed we are.
I will add some pictures a little later. I have most on facebook. But I will be adding more don't worry, i'm kind of camera happy, I think we took like 400 pictures in the hospital!

Reflecting back

I thought it would be neat to go back and look at all the pictures from when Kyla was born. I had my mom in the delivery room so she got a couple good videos and pictures of various things...obviously not the birth but she did get right after. I have been watching them over and over and of course bawling my eyes out! I am getting so excited to do it all again, I don't know why we want to go through that pain but after they are here it's totally worth it. I had a rough labour but i'm willing to do it again for these next two. It seems like yesterday Kyla was born and it was 2 years ago. I can't believe how fast time goes and it scares me to think of these twins 2 years old! Kyla came out really fast and she was really bruised on her face, arm and top of her head. She was 3 1/2 weeks early but she weighed 6lbs 12oz and was a healthy girl. She was a little jaundice but that's the only complicaton she had. We came home after 3 days in the hospital. I'm actually excited to see what this next experience goes like compared to the first. Brand New!

An update

I figured I should put a new post up since it's been a while. Not too much is new. I am almost 31 weeks now and I can't believe how fast it has gone by, I just hope the next few go by even faster. We had another little scare on Thursday night. I woke up at 1:30 in the morning having contractions again so we went into the hospital. They said I had an infection of some sort and it started the contractions (any kind of sickness or infection can start labour.) So they pumped me with 3 bags of IV and some antibiotics. I have so many different holes in my arms from needles and IV's it's insane! Dustin said I have had my blood pressure taken more this pregnancy than he has his whole life and he is just gonna buy me my own blood pressure machine so when they need it I can do it at home and just call them and tell them what it is! He was laughing at me the whole time cuz I practically live in the hospital and everytime they checked me or poked me with a needle or took my blood pressure he would laugh. Anyways everything stopped and turned out ok, we got sent home after all the IV bags were done. We were really tired the next day and slept for most of it. I am so ready to be done with this pregnancy and all the complications that came with it. I hope these next few are easy and I go into labour at the right time and won't have to be flown to Edmonton. I was panicking the other day cuz I started to make a list of things we still need and we need everything!! I havent really thought about how much we don't have yet. Little things such as soothers, bottles, and even diapers! I've been so distracted I haven't even realized it. So I went on a wal-mart shopping spree the other day and bought some stuff finally. I feel a little better now. I just hope they have our stroller in stock next week when Jill and Travis go to Edmonton.

I decided to start Kyla up again on potty training. I'm sure she could of been trained by now with the huge interest she was showing in January but I was just so sick with morning sickness I didn't have the energy or patience to do it. We bought her some princess pull-ups and some panties, so far she has gone a few times in the big potty, not even in her little potty she wants to go on the big one! My mom bought a little seat for her and she loves it. She sits on it forever! So lets hope she catches on before these babies come. If anyone has any good pointers on potty training I'm open to hear anything, i've never done it before and i'm hoping i'm doing it right.

I had to post this picture. This is a daily ritual after dinner the girls strip down as fast as they can and are ready for their bubble bath. Cute little bums eh?

Our babies!

Here is the ultrasound pictures from Monday's Doctors appointment, (29 weeks) They are so much bigger than before. The top one is Baby B, which is a really good profile shot. The bottom one is Baby A and you can't really see it but the face is looking away, so we see her back. You can see her hand and spine though. The doctor took lots of Baby B, poor A got neglected but she wouldn't turn around for us. I am getting so excited, I only have 4 more weeks until its safe to deliver here! I would like to go further but it's just so nice knowing that if I don't have that much further to go before they'll keep me here, cuz I don't want to go to Edmonton. I'll be putting a picture up on Monday of my belly of 30 weeks!

Happy Anniversary!!

I can't believe it's already been 4 years. I would love to turn back time to our wedding day and do it all over again, we truly had an amazing day. I don't remember anything going wrong and the weather was so perfect. I wish I had the box of photo albums somewhere so I could put some pictures on, but I did find some proofs of our pictures we got done, they aren't the best but it will have to do for now.

These 4 years have been amazing and we have done so much. We have never had it easy but we sure have always been happy no matter what. That is one thing I love about our marriage is how happy we have been no matter what the situation was. Dustin is a very patient person and just knows how to make me happy whenever i'm not. We can talk to eachother about anything and we never make decisions without eachother, (the bigger decisions of course). I love him so much and I am so excited to share the rest of my life with him. He is an amazing dad and loves Kyla so much, and he is just as excited for the next two daughters to come. I wish I had more time cuz I could go on forever about how much I love him and why, but for now....I love you Dustin.

To answer your questions

So I got this idea from someone else and I loved it. This is a post to answer everyones questions about what is going on in our life lately. Alot of people have been asking me the same questions, so here I am to answer them. I find it way easier to do it this way so I don't have to write the same thing over to different people. I'm so grateful for everyone and their support through this pregnancy, it has sure meant a lot and I hope I can do the same for you.


What is the sex of babies?
We are having 2 more girls, we have had 4 ultrasounds so we are pretty sure that we can count on it.

Are they Identical or Fraternal?
We don't know yet, they won't be able to tell until they are born since they are in their own seperate placentas and sacs, it's a 70% chance they are fraternal, and 30% that they are still identical. They can do a test on the placentas when they are born, or even a simple DNA test to see.

When are you actually due?
My original 40 week due date is July 15th, but full-term with twins is 37 weeks and that is June 23rd. as long as I make it to 34 weeks we are happy cuz that way we can deliver in Fort Mcmurray. They won't deliver me up here before 34 weeks because they don't have a NICU so if the babies need extra care we will get flown to Edmonton...so lets hope not.

Why are you on bedrest?
At 24 weeks I started to cramp and went into preterm labour. I am dialated 1cm and my cervix is funneled or effaced 2 cm. They were able to stop it and now I am at home and practically live on the couch. You can read more details in one of my earlier posts about our scare. I can't do any straining or stand for too long. It is very frustrating and definately a sacrifice for me, but i'm willing to do anything for 2 healthy baby girls.

How are you feeling?
Huge! I am growing like you wouldn't believe, I can't believe what our bodies can do as women, it's amazing. I have been measuring weekly and i'm bigger everytime. It's hard sleeping, sitting, walking, standing...really nothing is comfortable anymore. I know I sound like i'm complaining a lot, but trust me it's really starting to wear me down. It's even harder to breathe, and both babies are head down right now and it is a lot of pressure and weight down there. I am really starting to hurt in the area where your legs connect to your pelvis, like my groin area or something. ha I dunno...but I can hardly walk anymore cuz it hurts so bad. Needless to say I feel for anyone who has to be pregnant with twins!

Do you have to have a c-section or can you go naturally?
If everything goes right and the first baby is head down, then I can probably go naturally. They can always try to turn the second one around if it's breach...or if they can't I might have to have a c-section to get the second baby out, which is my nightmare to have both. If there are no complications then i'll have them naturally. I am hoping that I won't have to have a c-section, I don't want a long hard recovery especially after already being on bedrest for 3 months.

Does Kyla understand what's going on?
I'm not too sure, she knows mommy has 2 babies in her tummy but who knows if she 'really' gets it. She'll be a great big helper though cuz she is quite the smarty pants and I think she will love these little babies when they get here.

Do you have names yet?
Yes we have one definately that we like and a few other ones we are deciding between. No we aren't sharing what they are, i'm all about surprises and I don't want peoples opinions. We already shared what the sexes are so we want something to be a surprise. We didn't originally even want to find out the sex of this pregnancy we never did with Kyla, but then we found out it was twins and I am all about preparation and it's a little easier with twins if you know what they are. If we name them and someone doesn't like them, well too bad cuz thats what they are!

Are you ready for the babies?
Nope not even close and I only have 6 weeks left! We are in need of clothes for newborn and preemie sizes. We got lots given to us but most of them are 6mo-2yr sizes. I am going to be doing a lot of online shopping! Jill and Travis are picking up our stroller and carseats in Edmonton in a few weeks for us. We aren't too concerned about the cribs quite yet cuz we have a bassinet we will probably use for the first bit. Especially cuz they'll be in our room for a while. I did find the ones I want though, so we'll order them when we want. I'm hoping everything else will just fall into place. Oh and i'm making baby quilts but I still have to order the material for them, but im not too concerned of getting them done in time seeing as I have no life...I am in need of a project!

Well I hope this has answered most of your questions and i'm thankful for all your concerns about our situation. It has been hard but only 6 more weeks and we can relax and not worry anymore...but then I guess the real fun begins when they get here eh? Oh they joys of life!!

27 weeks!

I have to post about this cuz it is so exciting to make it one more week and I feel like 27 weeks is a good step. I wanted to wait until net week cuz I will be 7 months but I feel like it has been a while since I took a picture. I have been taking this pregnancy day by day and hoping that I will hold off to the end, it's just so releiving knowing i'm 3 weeks further than I was when I went into preterm labour. We are so lucky. I am growing daily and I honestly dont know where these babies are going to go cuz I was this big with Kyla at the end. I luckily don't have anymore stretch marks (yet) but really I can't help it if I do get them. I have accepted it that I will probably get lots. My life has been really boring lately with being on bedrest, so I am very limited to what I can do. I have been going for weekly checkups at the hospital and my first week I went in didn't go to well, here's what happened. My appointment was at 11:30 and they told me to be there early to fill out some forms etc. So we are breakfast at about 8:30 and left at about 10:30, Jill dropped me off and took the girls and went a couple places. Well the wait was long, even with my appt. They get a lot of walk-ins and it's baby crazy up here, they never have beds. Anyways I was in the waiting area by myself and started to feel really dizzy and I knew if I stood up I would pass out. Well luckily Jill came in with the girls and she went and got the nurse, so they took me into a room and checked my blood pressure and it was really low. They hooked me up to IV and I had to stay for a couple hours to get the fluids in me. Well I think it was cuz I didn't eat, the wait was long and I didn't get into a bed until after 12:00 so thats a long time in between eating for me. Anyways I made sure the next time I ate right before I went in. I decided I really hate hospitals and I am getting so sick of them! I just want this pregnancy to go by so fast and be done. The babies are moving like crazy lately and I am getting a lot bigger. I hate bedtime cuz I wake up so many times to either go pee or now rolling over I even have to wake up! Who would of thought eh? I don't think it's hit me really that we are having two...honestly I don't think it has! It probably won't until they are here! We have our names, stroller, cribs, and clothes all picked out, now I just have to buy it! This bedrest thing sucks. I wanted to take a trip to Edmonton this month to do some serious baby shopping, now it looks like it'll all be online. Not so fun but I guess it'll have to work.

Kyla is doing great, she actually got a fat lip this morning, she fell on a toy and cut it open...poor thing. She took it hard too, normally she is pretty tough and will get right up and be fine but I think she had a hard time with the fat lip. She held ice or a cold cloth on it for at least an hour and didn't want to get off my lap. (Which is also getting minimal!) She trys to lay back on my lap but my belly is so big that she can't and she got frustrated, it was kind of funny. Well I think thats pretty much it for now, my life is boring.

Here is her fat lip, not the best shot but you can see it on the middle of her top lip.

Kyla and Dustin playing with the last pile of snow in the front yard, he brought some of it from the backyard so there was more.

This was 24 weeks, I just never put it on here and that shirt no longer fits me!

Happy Birthday Kyla!

Well I can't believe it but our daughter is 2 years old. I feel like I was just pregnant with her and now she is talking like crazy and is such a smarty pants. She never stops amazing us with what she can do, she is quite the copy cat so she says pretty much anything. She also doesn't forget anything, sometimes its a bad thing ;) We love her so much, she will always be my baby. She is going to be a big sister soon and I think thats why we've been so blessed with how big of a helper she is so she will be able to help me a lot with these other 2 girls.

Here are some pictures of her birthday, we celebrated it on Easter weekend with all of Dustin's family. I guess it was a good thing with me being on bedrest, her birthday won't be a huge deal today so good thing we did it early. Here are also some pictures of Easter. I kind of haven't got around to an Easter post considering our latest situation. But here is our big girl all grown up.

With cousin Emma in their new Rain suits, they wore their boots pretty much everyday all day. Now Kyla has a big blister on her toe so I think they will be hidden for a bit.

A little Scare

You never think it'll happen to you but it did to us and we were very lucky it didn't turn out worse. It all started last Wednesday, we were hanging out at Jill and Travis's and I didn't really feel right all day but I started to get cramping in my lower abdomen in the evening at about 9:00, it gradually got worse and I decided I needed to just go to bed, I went to the bathroom and it started to get stronger, it felt like menstrual cramps and not small ones. Dustin was with me the whole time and thought I just needed to go to bed, so I tried getting into bed but I got really nautious and didn't feel right. We decided to go to the hospital at about midnight. They got me on the monitors and told me the doctor would see me again in the morning, cuz everything was ok when the doctor checked me when we first got there. so I sent Dustin home to get a good sleep. Well a couple hours later the nurse came in and said I was having regular contractions, she grabbed the doctor and she checked me again and I was dialated 1cm and my cervix was softening. I was in labour. She quickly decided to fly me to Edmonton, she went and phoned them but they were full so they decided to send me to Calgary where if these babies were going to be born they could be in high NICU care. Seeing as I was only 24 weeks. I called Dustin right away and told him to pack a bag for us and get to the hospital cuz they were going to have me out of there within half an hour. He got there on time and in the airplane we went, I was on a stretcher and Dustin sat beside me. I was really nausious the whole time, it was miserable. I was puking every 10 minutes with nothing in me. It was brutal. We got the the hospital in Calgary and I had 2 doctors come in to see me. The contractions stopped before we even got into the plane. They gave me a steroid shot and hooked me up to IV for fluids and gave me a couple other things which in all I think stopped the contractions. They kept me on monitors for a couple days and checked on me all the time. I had an ultrasound which confirmed the funneling of the cervix which isn't normal. It was confusing for a few days on what they wanted to do with me. They didn't want to send me home to Fort Mcmurray cuz they don't have the NICU care for the babies here, they atually were thinking of keeping me for 6-8 weeks. Monday morning came and the doctor came in to see me and said if the ultrasound had no change from when we first got there I could go home on bedrest. Dustin was with me the whole time and it was so hard being away from Kyla for that long. She stayed up in Fort Mac with Dustins family. The hardest part was thinking I would have to stay for weeks without family or anything. Dustin had to come back home to work so we needed to make a decision. Luckily the ultrasound came back and nothing had changed so they sad I could go home. I was so happy cuz it would of been so hard not seeing Dustin or Kyla for a week at a time, although I had to consider the babies if they did come. I just had a calming feeling the whole time, and honestly Dustin and I both felt that everything was going to be ok. Poor Jill had a harder time I think than we did. She had her first baby at 26 weeks and he past away when he was 20 days old, he was 2lbs 5oz. So she has been through this and didn't want us to go through the same thing they did. They have been a great support for us. All of our family has. I'm so glad we have the good friends and family we do that we can count on at times like this. That is our story of our latest challenge. I am now at home in Fort Mac on bedrest and really I can't do nothing, I have the help of Jill thankfully and Dustin works close by if anything goes wrong. I am supposed to go for weekly stress tests at the hospital to make sure everything is ok, which is good. But I hope thats the only scare we have for the rest of this pregnancy.

We're Here!

Not too sure if i'm excited yet, but i'm sure it'll come. We have been in chaos this week trying to help Jill and Travis finish their basement so we can get settled in our little place down there. We are going to apply for our housing tomorrow and things are looking great for that. We might even get in sooner than planned, so lets keep our fingers crossed. Well other than that there isn't much to tell. We had Easter here on Sunday and had a big dinner as always with Dustin's family. Things have been quite crazy but I know it'll get better as time goes, and it'll be worth it in the end for us. I sure am missing Okotoks and knowing how close I was to family, I guess they will just have to make some more trips up here to see us!

Well I am now 6 months pregnant, i'm pretty sure I am 24 weeks, I kind of lost track in all the move. I have my first appointment on Monday with our doctor here and i'm pretty excited, he has an ulatrasound machine right in his office so we can get one everytime. I'm sure they will anyways from now on. I am hoping I make it at least 10 more weeks and i'll be happy. I have been really tired lately but I think it's from all the change and crazyness in our life right now. I'm just glad we are here and I can relax the rest of the time.