24 week appointment

We went to the doctor today and got an ultrasound to check on the boy's growth. The boys are doing great, and as my doctor put it, they are obeying perfectly! (Let's hope they stay that way). Both of their heads are down and we hope they won't move - although the very well could. This would explain all the kicks up top, and why every time I feel a kick I feel a movement right over my bladder. They have been kicking up a storm. It is so sweet to feel them all the time and Mike is enjoying feeling them as well. It is hard to imagine that I have two little humans inside of me making their prescence known!
Michael's head is in my left side with his body going across my abdomen, on my right side, and his feet are right under my belly button. Jeremiah's head is right on top of Michael's and he is straight up and down. They both weight 1.45 pounds and they measure perfectly with where they should be! Praise the Lord! We are so thankful that we have had such a healthy and "normal" pregnancy so far (Normal for us!).
Here are some pictures of the boys:

The top of both of their heads. (Michael is on the right, Jeremiah on the Left)

Jeremiah's feet

Side profile of Jeremiah

Side profile of Michael

Jeremiah's hands and fingers

3-d of both boys. Michael is rubbing Jeremiah's head. It was great to watch!

3-d of the side of Michael


As far as me - I have gained 3 pounds in 2 weeks making my total weight gain so far at 10 pounds. She is not concerned, because the boys are growing fine - so I will not stress to gain more weight. Belly size I am measuring at 30 weeks. And everything else is right on target.
Here are some belly shots taken at 24w4d:




My back pain is MUCH better since we bought the snoogle pillow from Babies R Us. We had lot's of coupons and gift cards so we paid less then half for it. This pillow is A MUST HAVE for pregnant women with twins. It has done wonders for my back support while I sleep.



I went to get fitted for a bra from the lactation consultant and I will just say that the results were depressing! I will not give specifics except for the fact that all that weight gain might NOT have been the babies!!! AGH!!! Depressing... that's all I have to say on this subject... Depressing... Did I say, Depressing already?

On to more encouraging topics. We finally got our new bed and got the rooms all set up. Our bedroom is now the nursery/guest room and the nursery is now our bedroom. When we have family visiting after the twins are born they will just sleep in our room and we will sleep in the guest so we can get up with the twins. I plan on nursing the twins on that bed, so I won't have to worry about having a place to nurse when we have company. In order to put the rooms this way, we had to reorganize every closet in our apartment. Mike brought out EVERY tupperware, box, bucket from EVERY closet and put it in the living room and I consolidated a lot of stuff, and threw alot of stuff away - and somehow we managed to fit it all back in the closets. It was like a puzzle, but we did it!

The Guest Bed

Our Nursery Rug

The Crib - I am going to put their initials over it.

Changing Table

Sign that my sister-in-law gave us

Our New Bed