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.

Breasting feeding benefits

I always hear stories that mother is the best food and that mothers should breast feed. Over the course of the Month of May since Mother's Day is coming up I'm going to explore just how supportive companies/jobs, family and communities are to mothers that choose to breastfeed their babies.

Pregnant in America (Among other things)

Leave Your Sleep (2CD)


So I just recently watched the documentary Pregnant in America (http://www.pregnantinamerica.com/) I must say I was moved and enlightened. I wanted a home birth and still want a home birth and am currently looking into my options to do so because well as of yet I haven't been that satisfied with the treatment of pregnant women by the health care "professionals" nor by the corporate American machine for which I work. Since I've been pregnant I've been threatened with firing, have almost lost my home, have been ignored by my doctors as to the problems I've been experiencing, and have all but given up on people's treatment of pregnant women. I never knew that people ignored a woman's feelings about discomfort or pain or questions that they may have. Just recently my doctor has taken steps towards "listening" to my concerns as a first time mother, however, previously I was treated as if I had no idea what I was talking about. They were very cavalier and callous towards my thoughts and concerns as if every pregnant woman experiences pregnancy the same way. LETS GET THIS CLEAR! Every woman is NOT the same so every pregnancy, every birth, every symptom is not the same. SO will all the people out there that think this is so please stop!

Now with that being said Pregnant in America was a very informative documentary. I learned a lot and as I stated have already in some form experienced the horror of the medical professionals. They are there for you the "patient" and yet they treat pregnancy and eventual child birth as some sort of inconvenience. Being a first time mother they almost called me a liar to my face when I would tell them something is wrong. Everything became NORMAL! I mean everything. I threatened a miscarriage twice, this was considered normal. I have been sick morning noon and night and sometimes evenings and mid-conversation, this was NORMAL. I would wake up (if I fell asleep at all) and my entire body would be in pain. I couldn't move. My bones would hurt, my abdomen would feel like I was being stabbed I couldn't walk, stand, sit, lay, drive or anything without some sort of pain.

Now don't get me wrong I'm usually a healthy woman. I used to kickbox, I did yoga, tai-chi, I walked I'm a vegetarian/vegan. I am natural and pay very close attention to my health and eating. So when I started experiencing a very unhealthy pregnancy this was odd to me. I thought I was doing something wrong. But with out telling me what was wrong people would just tell me it was normal or to suck it up (in so many words) and get back to work or life or whatever I should be doing because hey being pregnant does not change your life right? WRONG!!!! I thought that people would take into consideration that hey a woman being pregnant is a delicate time in her life. WAS I EVER WRONG!? You would think that I made it all up. Like oh I'm not really pregnant I just want some attention lol. Nonetheless, I was and am determined to enjoy the growth and gestation of my babies. My seed and bean are growing more and more every day. My health is getting a little better and I'm getting back to meditating again.

It's amazing to me though how women are treating here in America when they are having children. Since when has this experience become some burden on society? Since when has being pregnant and giving birth become some unnatural process? So I'm looking into having a home birth or as natural as possible in a hospital as possible because I too found it alarming the rate of c-sections that women are having in the US. I just found it odd that the first moments of holding your child, latching on, nursing, crying together is taken away from so many women and they can never get that back.

Of course my concerns and risks are high. I mean I'm having twins how successful could I be with having a home birth with two babies? Especially with all the health problems I've had thus far? I know for sure I don't want any drugs and I don't want to be induced or anything of that nature, however, I will keep you posted as to the birth plan for Me the Seed and the Bean!
Blessings abundantly!
Empress