New year with a whimper

Who'd have thought I'd spend new years eve in hospital in the company of two crazy ladies with virtually no hair and curious teeth. They are like the most wretched characters from Eastenders discussing loudly their ex partners trips to prison, tales of abuse and their many children. And when I arrived and the receptionist asked me what I was in for I told her "your finest suite please" so lord knows how I ended up here.

In a parallell universe.......

Meanwhile in this time space continuum I have been to hospital this morning had a scan in which the babies look pretty good and are reasonably similar sizes but also had terrible stomach pains again. So they did some tests and found.....

Newsflash: one of the toothless ones grunts like a piggy

.....a problem with my liver.
My liver has now been scanned and looks normal. But I am having more blood tests and a drip tomorrow.

Babies are wriggling a bit which is great, so I am happy enough if they are still baking
To be honest where those 3 spaghetti squashes are hiding (can't believe they are that big) in my tummy is anyones guess.

News flash: she also makes sex noises when she sleeps!!!!
Nasty pasty!

My goils/triplet tummy shadow

Week 21 triplet tummy




Week 22 triplet tummy

Spaghetti Squash

The little ladies are apparently the size of Spaghetti Squash!!!

They apparently weigh about 360gm which is fantastic as they must get to 500gm or 24 weeks to be technically viable.
I guess because I am pregnant with 3 there is a strong possibility that they are quite a bit smaller than they should be at this point.

Well hospital appointment tomorrow for 22 week scan, it will be 21weeks + 6days.

I am so excited, I really hope they are developing well.

The Bumps Jump

In the last few days the bumps have jumped visibly!!
It is weird to get used to but it is fantastic :-) I could not be more happy.

Actually I could, I want to see them jump when they aren't in my tummy.
Mr Lees the lead consultant has requested that I spend some time in the hospital between weeks 24 and 25 just to make sure that I am in the best place I can be if they come too soon.
I really hope that they don't try to escape too early.

What was really great about seeing them move for the first time was that Richard was there and he saw them move at the same time, which was great, because it is great to be able to share it with him. :-)

Christmas with a Santa Belly already

This year christmas has been lovely, we have seen both of our sets of parents and it has been really relaxing and a proper jolly time. I really hope our little princesses will get to share such lovely christmases with the family.

During the holidays we took a rather ambitious trip to Paris via Hanbury Manor and London, I was worried we would never make it, but despite the fact that in the last few weeks my tummy has got much much much bigger, and I have had my fair share of back pain with Sciatica which really had me crippled and stomach aches which similarly had me bent double in pain and not managing to get off the floor, we managed to get to Hanbury Manor, have a perfectly relaxing time, starting with afternoon tea with Richard's Mum, Dad and Aunty,  with lovely spa treatments and lunch in the Zodiac lounge almost 5 years to the day of our first date there :-)

I was really reticent about going to London and Paris especially since Eurostar had some real problems with the wrong kind of snow that stopped all the trains and was a complete disaster. But we went to to London, saw the Nativity Movie, which was hillarious.

I sat in the auditorium with my socks tucked in my boots under my chair and my feet wrapped up in my coat because my feet were sodden. Richard did tell me not to wear the fabulous purple boots in the wet, and alas alak he was right.

We went for a chinese in one of the crazy hanging food places in china town and then went on to see a show; Jersey Boys. We wouldn't have done so many things if we'd thought we'd make it to Paris, but as it happens, we seemed to slip through the net and arrive in Gay Paris just in time for a beautiful light show, a trip up and then down le tour Eiffel and then for dinner at a fabulous french/romaine bistro with a view of the tower. Dinner wasn't too expensive.

The next day Richard took a picture of my tummy and it had definitely grown. :-) We went for lunch at another nice little place with a prix fixe menu and then for a Bateau Vedette ride to Notre Dame and back and a taxi to the EuroStar that seemed to be waiting for us, back home and then to Baan Thitaya in Hertford and home.

It was the most perfect break in time for Christmas, which was also lovely.

So my little ladies, have been taken to Paris even if they haven't seen it :-)

Tiny Dancers

I can feel the little ladies dancing again.
I worried right upto yesterday when I saw their hearts beating and today they are twitching again.


They seem ok although there is the slight chance that the identical twins have twin to twin transfusion syndrome.
This isn't good but it can be dealt with if detected.

We have an appt on 18th Dec day before we are meant to go to Hanbury Manor, fingers crossed all is well.