However. Bed rest is even more boring to read about than it is to do. I think!
I have ordered in lots of reading books and I am going to take up knitting so have ordered a pattern book of my favourite knitable celebrities. Amy Winehouse is first! (No point knitting baby clothes when they only cost about $5)
In a couple of days I will be 26 weeks and my next goal from that is to get to 28 weeks. It is strange looking ahead at the days on the calender and completely forgetting that Christmas will fall in there somewhere.
The last scan on my cervix showed that it was still at 1.8 - so still crap but no worse and they are checking me every week with warnings of any preterm labour signs to go straight back into the labour and delivery ward.
As long as I stay lying down and off my feet it feels ok.
I am actually going out tonight to BUGS work Christmas party. I am being dropped off right outside the door and will sit down for dinner straight away and then come straight home to bed again. Any pain and I will leave asap! It is -36 outside so I do not want to hang around.
This week I met our future Doula for the first time and was very impressed by her. I was feeling a bit middle class and wimpy hiring a doula but we are having twins with no family or help on this side of the world so I can justify it! BUGS mum found her online when we were back in the UK. I did not have my laptop and we were having a discussion about care in Canada and the next thing I know is she has found 2 people in Calgary and got their life history from them ahaaaa...she also puts to them that she is concerned we do not have a clue about what to expect from a new baby, let alone 2 babies which has got us peeved. Who really does have a clue until their own arrive? You can guess, read every book and talk to your mum, friends etc but until it happens I bet we have no idea! - and I don't mind that. I fully expect it to be hard, funny, stressful etc etc
Anyhoo, the doula has looked after a lot of twins and some of them have been premmie babies, she stated that her insight is not medical but was still very reassuring about premmie babies. The twins she is off to look after from now until March were born at 27 weeks and are coming home all OK - a big relief as I only have just over a week until I am 27 weeks. She has lent me a book called The Multiple Pregnancy Sourcebook which is a joy to read for the very reason that it has no blooming fruit and veg comparisons in it. Nor does it hector or 'fluffy up' any copy. It is an insightful, factual read about multiple pregnancy so includes a lot of pre term labour and premmie births.
Bug is being a genius around the house cooking, shopping and cleaning (kind of!). He is feeding me and the juniors up on super foods like spinach soup (at least a bag of spinach per bowl), stews and porridge. I am getting pretty round shaped though despite no pigging out and being super healthy. I think my body is storing any fat it gets for the juniors.
The hyperemesis is back under control, I had dipped a bit on the diclectin as I didn't really think it did anything and I take 8 a day of those, 2 - 3 of zofran and 2 of ranitidine. However, I can report that diclectin does have an impact as after 2 days without it and just on zofran alone I puked in the taxi on the way to the doctors and was so sick again...oops! It took a few days of being back on all 3 pills to nub away the green feeling and I feel pretty normal again now which is good as I am looking forwards to turkey tonight (the bird variety!)
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