Still going...

I am still in the hospital, the babies are still little but doing well, and my life is too boring for much of an update!
As of today, the Dr. thinks my c-section will be Monday or Tuesday but I'll know for sure after a growth scan on Saturday. So much for a Canada Day birthday!
They check the umbilical cord flow everyday, along with fetal heart monitoring every 4 hrs. So it's pretty reassuring. The food sucks, and I'm officially bored (although my iPhone/ipad combo is very helpful) but I am pretty happy to have universal health care at the moment. It's nice not to have to worry about money while this is going on.
I love my dr. and nurses, so that's good stuff.
Alright, that's all I've got!

Update

So there isn't much to say. I'm laying around most of the day. Life is the hospital is pretty boring. But so far, the daily ultrasounds have still shown just an intermittent blood flow issue. As long as it is continuous, the babies stay in. Now I'm still not sure if that will keep up after 35 weeks. Since the babies just aren't growing a lot, the 35 week mark may trigger delivery.
Now that the weekday staff is back, I'm hoping to get that answered.
So, all's well!

Admitted

Well, I've been admitted to the high risk maternity ward. Baby A is now in the 10 percentile but more importantly, his cord is having a blood flow problem. So u/s daily now and if it worsens at all, they deliver. Doc thinks anytime from 1 to 10 days.
So definitely NICU time. Right now our little guy is 3lbs 10 oz and the bigger guy is only 4lbs 2 oz. I know they should be ok. We're at 34 weeks. Just wish we'd go a little longer.
And man, I'm hot in this hospital!

Little babies

I have little babies in there. Baby A is now in only the 14th percentile (dropping steadily from 30 over the past couple of months). It means he is 2 weeks behind and only 3lbs.
Baby B is 3 lbs 9 oz which is better, in the 30th percentile.
Apparently this drop is quite normal with twins, it's just happening a little early AND the babies are starting out so small.
So they will be born early. I've been worried about it but am wrapping my head around it now. The Dr thinks we have 2 more weeks, so grow babies grow!

Almost 30 weeks!

I'm getting a lot of third trimester issues, but it doesn't bother me too much. I mean, everything is temporary and it's all for a very good reason!!  Here's my list:
I developed carpal tunnel syndrome a couple of weeks ago and it's pretty annoying now, but livable.
 My newest heartburn medication is awesome.  Although I still have reflux, at least it doesn't hurt.  It DOES still wake me up at night, sometimes in a raging coughing fit that ends up in vomiting.
My ribs often hurt, obviously just from being stretched.
And may back hurts when I walk further than about 20 metres.
But like I said, when you know it's temporary, nothing seems like that big of a deal.
Tomorrow we're off to the doctor again.  2 weeks ago, baby B dropped in size again.  They still aren't worried though.  Apparently I just have small babies.  This, of course, makes me worry they won't be 5 lbs when born, but what can you do?
And I had a baby shower on Sunday.  It was fun and cute and VERY weird to accept that it was for me.  Some infertility feelings may just never go away.

Happy Easter

What a nice long weekend. The change table/dresser is all built making the room complete for furniture. Now I'll just need to stock it.
I've been slowly working away at diapers every time I see a sale. I'm hoping this will help it feel less expensive when the babies are here. It's amazing to calculate how many diapers you need!
On Thursday we had another growth scan. Baby A stayed at 27th percentile and is placenta Doppler was normal. So he's just a little guy. Baby B actually went up to 47th percentile. So pretty "normal".
Other good news at this appointment was that my blood pressure remains good, my cervix is long and closed and my sugar test was all normal. The Dr thinks I can continue at every second week until 32 weeks now. This could always change, but good news for now.

Update

Everything has been sailing along nicely but this past week we got our first "bad"? news.  It's not awful, but it wasn't perfect either.  Baby A has dropped from the 35th to the 27th percentile in size.  It could be nothing, but usually they want to see them generally at the same percentile.  It could be a placental issue, blood pressure, or who knows.  Really, until the ultrasound next week (and added doppler) we don't know if it matters.  I'm tending not to worry about it right now, but I do wish there was something more I could do.  I'm trying to eat more food although the Dr. says that doesn't matter.
My blood pressure is still pretty good but is higher than 2 weeks ago.  And I had my diabetes test and that looked good.
So for now, I just have tiny babies (Baby B is in the 42nd percentile).  I hope I can keep these guys in long enough to not need the NICU.

We got our cribs up!  So the baby room has started to take shape.  I love having this room to peak into and think happy thoughts.  We decorated in green with brown animals (monkeys, lions, giraffes).  Cute stuff.