First week of life

Here's a little bit of what we've been up to this first week of the girl's life:

The hospital stay was very busy between looking after Siena, trying to get some rest, seeing some visitors and visiting Aria in the NICU.

Saying good-bye to Aria in the NICU the day we go home from the hospital

Siena all ready to go home

We came home from the hospital on Wednesday with Siena.  Leaving Aria at the hospital was way harder than I ever anticipated it would be.  Add in, pain medication, hormone emotions and lack of sleep and let's just say it was a very rough day.  She has great nurses who are all so nice and positive, but it was still hard to walk out those doors and go home.

Aria with her feeding tube in her nose, doesn't it make your nose itch?

Since then we go back twice a day for some of her feedings and the progress has been amazing.  We hope/think she will be home with us in the next few days.

No feeding tube....certificate of progress!

Having Siena home with us has been so fun.  We love to just stare at her and the many faces she makes.  She's met her cousin just older then her, Max, and her BFF that has been so excited to meet her, Holland.

We've had my sister Christy in town and also my mother in law.  Both of them have each taken a night to watch Siena so I can get some sleep.  It has helped me recover a lot so hopefully when Aria gets home I'll be feeling pretty good.

So our life consists of seeing family, resting, watching Siena and going to visit Aria.  What a week it's been.  Both babies are really good eaters and sleepers.  I know this phase will pass but so far it's not all that bad.

Well Siena is clicking her tongue, so I guess it's time to go feed her.

They're Here!!!

They're here.  It's been a long and great week and I can't wait to tell you more about it.  In the meantime I'll introduce you to our 2 little girls.

Siena Sheri Glover

Born 9/10/11 6:58am (Baby A)

6 lbs even

17 inches

Light brown to blondish hair, not a lot of it

Aria Shae Glover

Born 9/10/11 7:00am (Baby B)

4 lbs 5 oz

17 inches

Dark brown, full head of hair

We are absolutely in love with these 2 girls.  Unfortunately Aria has been in the NICU due to her size and not being able to eat completely on her own.  We brough Siena home with us on Wednesday and hope to bring Aria home with us very soon.

Obviously Siena was a bit of a food hog, but the dr. told me their cord size was significantly different in size. I  thought that was interesting.  No wonder Aria was kicking her sister in the head the whole time.

I'll post more details a little later, in the meantime we have been going back and forth between home and the NICU.  Life is busy but it's going to get busier.

I've only got to hold them together once and I can't wait to get them home and together again.

Work Shower

I have to blog about my last baby shower I had.  Everyone has been so kind and generous.  My co-worker Rose, hosted a baby shower for me at work last week.  It ended up being my last day of work, although I didn't know that at the time.  We just had a little get together in one of the conference rooms and had treats and talked.  It was fun to see everyone stop by and of course I was on a total sugar high by the end.  Rose knows exactly what kind of treats I like to eat and she had quite the variety of them all.

Thanks Rose for organizing it!  And now I just realized I didnt' get a picture with Rose...darn it.  As much as I don't really miss going to work quite yet, I do miss the people I work with.  Most of them I have worked with the entire time I've worked there and they're like 2nd family to me.

Pregnancy Update - 34 Weeks

Everyone keeps asking for more pictures of me...really, 34 weeks with twins and you want to see a picture?  Ok, here it goes.  Don't be too scared.

(Shane said this picture above makes me look short...I kind of agree.  I guess when you have that big of a stomach that you would look shorter right?)

Lots has happened this week:

• I had an ultrasound this week.  The babies look great, lots of fluid around them and they are measuring great.  In fact they told me the estimates for their weights are 5lbs 7oz and 6 lbs 5 oz.  I don't believe they are that big for a minute.  And they did say at this stage the estimates are usually off.  But I thought I would write it down so we could compare once they are born.
• I didn't post about this before, but we had a little concern with baby B a few weeks back that she had a cyst on her bladder.  There were different types it could be with the worst being that they would need to operate on her as soon as she was born.  Well, the next appt. it had shrunk a lot and at this last appt. it has completely disappeared.  We are so happy that she won't have to have surgery to get it removed and they think it was just a cyst from all the hormones going on inside me.
• I had an NST (non-stress test) where they measure the babies heart rates, movements and contractions.  Heart rates and movements were great but I was having some pretty regular contractions for the 30 mins they monitored me.
• So then I met with my doctor and I found out that I am 2+cm dialated and 80% effaced (sorry if you don't want to read those details)
• So between that and the contractions they decided to take me out of work and put me on bedrest.
• I also got that steroid shot they give people to help develop the babies lungs faster in case they are to come this early.
• I've dropped (maybe you can tell from the picture) and I've been feeling pretty nauseous this week, fun!

I am 34 weeks, and would really, really like to make it past 36 weeks.  So I'm trying to take it easy.  I had a lot of contractions that day but these last 2 days no major contractions.  So I'm hoping things will stay settled and I can hang out pregnant for a while longer.  Funny how perspective changes.  Last week I was so done being pregnant and now they say I could go into labor at any moment and I'm all freaked out, not to have the babies but because I want the babies to stay in as long as possible so they are as healthy as can be when they're born.  I really, really want them to come home with me and not have to stay in the NICU when they're born.

So that's the update...we're on a day by day basis here.  Bags are pretty much packed just in case but hoping not to use them for a couple weeks.

Nursery Table

A couple years ago Shane's sister gave us a table she no longer wanted.  It's only about 2 feet tall and I always thought it would be perfect for when we had kids that they could use to color on, etc.  So a couple months ago I decided to work on it to paint it and put in the nursery.  It turned out to be a much harder project than I had anticipated cuz of the curves in the legs, etc. but with some perseverance and help from Shane I think it turned out rather cute...if you don't look at it too close.  Promise if you come over you'll look at it from a distance and not inspect it too close! :)

Before picture:

After pictures:

I am going to put up more pictures of the nursery, I promise.  Still need to put some things away, etc. before I can take some good pictures.

Picnic?

Last Saturday Shane and I were so bored sitting in the house.  There isn't much I can do these days active wise.  I get tired, my feet start to swell or it causes me to start having contractions.  So at the last minute we decided to take a little picnic and go up to Silver Lake at Brighton.  So we jumped in the car, grabbed some KFC and headed up the canyon.

Before we even hit the canyon entrance, dark clouds started rolling in and we could see out west that it was going to rain.  We decided to try and beat the storm so we still drove up.  We jumped out to the sound of thunder but no rain yet.  We grabbed the nearest bench and scarfed our food down...very quickly.  Then we jumped up, took a picture and as we got to the car we felt the first few rain drops.

So it was a quick trip up the canyon but it was still nice to get out of the city even if it was only for about 20 minutes.

I can read

Ever since being pregnant, I have been busy reading lots of books.  Books on pregnancy, books on twin pregnancy, books on caring for twins, books on twins sleeping schedules, etc.  If I wasn't reading one of those books then I was either too tired or too busy doing other things pregnancy related.  I all of the sudden felt burnt out on reading books like that....

So when my sister offered me an easy, good, fiction book to read, I took it, not really knowing if I would read it or have time to read it.  Well I picked it up and I all of the sudden was soo happy to be reading a fiction book again.  First fiction book of the year, literally.  It's called Hope's Journey and was written by a friend of my sister, Michelle. I loved it and really enjoyed reading it.  It's geared more towards High School kids but it didn't matter, I still really enjoyed it.

It was so nice to come home from work and pick up a good book to read and relax for a few minutes.

Anyways, just had to share that I still love reading...do you think I'll get any other books read this year, fiction or not?