Sunflowers and Coffee

So here we are once again. I must say where the inspiration for my Seed and Bean came from and is now headed. Seed and Bean first started out as a brain child in my head for a wholistic vegetarian/vegan book store here in Alabama. Well as my Seed and Bean grew so has the dream!Sunflower Seeds and Coffee beans is going online. WE will launch very soon to see how you all take to the idea of having books from African/African in America authors, natural products from venders that are personal to my heart such as Mocha Mango and Devine Khemistry as well as others. I hope to be launching at the end of the month as we have to get the site just right. I'm very excited to see what happens and watch my dream become a reality. IT is very important to me that we offer something well known but unique in its character.

If all goes well I hope to launch the food and beverage portion of the business soon after (end of the year first of January). I thank you for your continued support in hopes that Sunflower Seeds and Coffee Beans is a great and humble sucess!

Blessings in love

Empress

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Finding Center

Greetings on what has become quite the beautiful day family. I have found that being a mother has its ups and well more ups! I smile at the thought of my little ones growing. What will they become, who will they be, and can I properly pass on my values to them? It's funny that thing called value. I value family. And although I may make some decisions and choices along the way that may not be quite so the actions of an "empress" I"m still standing on the square of family.

It means the world to me to know that I have a strong support system in place. MY seed and bean will grow strong and healthy, mentally and physically and most important, spiritually and emotionally because they have a strong family. I have a new raspect for my mother. She has shown me the ways of motherhood and for that I'm eternally greatful. To all the mothers that have lended advice and counsel, strength and encouragement I thank you. I don't know if I could have made it through this pregnancy or birth and now into nursing among other things without the guidance of those who've done it before me.

It's a strange thing being a mother. You can't prepare or read a book for what is to come you just have to learn on the job literally! But I smile every morning with my seed and bean and prepare myself mentally for the journey of parenthood!

Blessed love family
from the EMpress (Seed and Bean)
Look out for http://www.seedsandbeans.com/ soon to come

And here we are!!!

During the first two trimesters of the pregnancy, twins typically develop at the same rate as single babies. In the third trimester, however, the amount of weight gained by the two infants together is about equal to the amount of weight gained by the one infant in a singleton pregnancy. In other words, while a singleton's weight climbs until 40 weeks' gestation before slowing down, multiples have deceleration of growth much earlier--seen typically in twins at 30 to 32 weeks. Consequently, twins and other multiples tend to be smaller than singletons at the same gestational age.Early in the third trimester, twins actually may have an advantage when it comes to growth, because they generally develop slightly faster than singletons do until about 30 weeks. For example, a set of twins delivered at 30 weeks will probably have better lung development and may have fewer problems due to a premature birth than a singleton born at the same gestation.

 


1 month (6 weeks)

Each of your babies is about 1/10 of an inch long. This is about the size of a grain of rice.

2 months (10 weeks)
Your babies are about 1¼ inches long, crown to rump, and weigh about 1/3 ounce each--about the size of a golf ball.

3 months (14 weeks)
Your twins are probably about 2½ to 3½ inches, crown to rump, and weigh about 1 ounce each. Both babies are now a little smaller than the size of your fist.

4 months (18 weeks)
Your twins are likely to measure about 4½ to 5½ inches from crown to rump. Each weighs about 5½ ounces.

5 months (22 weeks)
Both babies are about 7 to 10 inches long, head to toe, and weigh about 1 pound each--the size of a large banana.

6 months (26 weeks)
Your bundles of joy are about 11 to 14 inches long, weighing 1½ to 2½ pounds each.


7 months (30 weeks)
At this stage, each baby will measure around 16 or 17 inches and weigh about 3 to 3½ pounds.

8 months (34 weeks)
By this time, your twins are probably somewhere between 17 and 19 inches long, weighing between 4 and 5 pounds each. You are now carrying more baby than most singleton moms carry at 40 weeks. No wonder you're tired!

9 months (37 to 40 weeks)
On average, at term--37 weeks for twins--each baby is 18 to 21 inches long and weighs about 6 pounds.

SO here we are, this is about what the seed and bean look like inside my womb. It seems like every day I can feel more movement and adjusting and growing. Sometimes its a scary feeling that comes along when I least expect it and sometimes we are completely in sync and I now when they are about to move around. When certain music is playing or something I may be reading or watching I can tell just when they are about to move. Funny thing they won't both move together. One will move and then make then the other one move. It's like they are in there waking each other up LOL. Like hey do you hear that song Moms is playing, yea I think I like it (smile) anyway here we are moving right along.