21 Weeks

We're really getting there now. 3 more weeks to 'viability.' Come on babies you can do it!

We went to our second 'Baby School' on Saturday. It was just designed for people having twins - or more! The midwife doing this one kept forgetting to mention the 'or more' bit which irritated me a bit to be honest. She'd say 'When your twins arrive...' and I'd be chomping at the bit to say 'Or triplets!'

Apart from me being petty it was a good session. They showed us a dvd about how to bath a new born baby. It was a dad bathing his baby and I got quite choked about it. He was just so gentle - is it just me that finds a man being gentle so lovely?

Then we got woolly boobs to practice breastfeeding - no really. Apparently they were knitted especially by the ladies of our fair city. You had to place it over your real boob and practice feeding two babies at the same time. You can see a pic above - just of the woolly boob - I refused to let lovely fella take a pic of me practising.

Then the midwife asked for volunteer dads and lovely fella volunteered! I nearly fainted! He was sent around the corner with a fake baby to dress it for going out in the summer. Another dad was tasked with dressing a baby for outdoors in winter. Lovely fella brought his baby back and was marked 10/10. I was so proud! The other dad was a bit more random with the baby in a nappy and ski suit!

Anyway it was all good fun and made it seem much more real. Soon, hopefully, we'll be doing that for real.

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Weighed in this week and I'm 30 pounds up from pre pregnancy. Freaked me out a bit but recommendations for triplets vary between 45-100 pounds in total so I'm not doing badly. It is weird to watch that weight go up though but I do know it's for a good reason.

I'm pretty sure it's mostly belly and boobs though as both are HUGE! I will try to get a belly pic done so you can see. Definitely moving into obvious pregnancy mode now, depending on the clothes chosen.

Otherwise I've been mostly worrying - well not always but there has been more for sure. We are SOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooo close now to viability that I seem to get more scared every day that it'll all go wrong - I'll go into early labour or get pre-eclampsia.

Stupid thing is that there is absolutely no sign of either. Body is just chugging along quite happily. It's my mind going loopy!

Next scan is the 6th February. They will be measuring cervical length so we may get some clue how things are progressing. Until then its just waiting and trying not to go completely loony. I've started my 'what we need for the babies' list and just realised how much that is. Can't wait to start shopping.