Week 24 (30th-4th)

Your baby, now about in its 22nd week of development, is 8.4 inches from crown to rump and weighs about 1.2 pounds. It is starting to produce white blood cells, mostly for combating disease and infection, and may respond to your touch or sounds. If you haven't felt hiccups yet, you might feel some jerking motion now.

AHHHH...

+ I am getting REALLY impatient waiting for my next Ultrasound... And its not till October 26th.... 8 weeks and 2 days away.. I really want to go to my next doc appointment too. That's in 1 week and 2 days... But it still seems so far away.

+ I had Clayton take a picture of me yesterday.. With my yellow pants and white cami.. and I look like a MONSTER! I am a giant blob. And all I can think about is my butt getting bigger because my mother keeps telling me it is getting bigger. And my pants DO look tighter.. but I can't tell if that is from my waist.. of if its from my thighs & butt.... AHH STUPID MOM! She's such a meanie.

+ I had a really stupid dream last night too...

I had an ultrasound.. and for some reason had to CALL to find out the results..

Well apparently my sister called before me and emailed me telling me that baby A was already 19.5 inches (OMG) and something about baby b.

She didn't tell me the sex or anything.. and then she said "and I'm not making any of this up"

And I think to myself, "there is NO WAY I am having twins" LOL

So I call, and the woman on the phone got mad at me for calling.. but told me that there was only one baby.. and that it was a girl.. and I was so happy I started crying.. and she said "she is DEFINITELY a girl" and then she goes, "oh wait a minute, I think I see a penis, you'd having a boy" and then I got mad and was like "WHAT?!?!"

Then after that.. I had triplets, ALL BOYS... And they constantly wanted to nurse.. like every 3 seconds.. and then this weird 3 year old came and wanted to nurse (what?!)..

And then my 3 boys turned into toddlers (2 years old) and they were all VERY BLONDE! Which is what me & Clayton are going to end up with anyways (we were both white blonde).. And they all looked slightly different, but were still identical.. And I couldn't figure out which one I wanted to call Maddox (the name we have picked out if we have a boy). So we left them unnamed.

THEN, all of a sudden, I have a 4 year old daughter. And she's really tan and she has dark brown hair..... And I refused to name her Faylinn (what I've wanted to name my daughter for years, when I have a daughter that is) because she wasn't what I wanted in a little girl. I kept wanted to call her Haley. But I couldn't name her that because it is the name of my friend, megan's, 2.5 year old.. So we left her unnamed too.

And then me & megan went to this catholic church.. and the sanctuary was actually more like this big opera house.. and everything was made out of natural colored marble.. and the sermon and everything was like a drag queen show (seriously....)

And then the rest of the church was like the target center, or the metrodome. With escalators and concession stands....

And I went there to see the pope give his blessings to my SIL & her fiance for their wedding... (bf's sister.. I went to this church with my old best friend who has never even met these people)..

And it was REALLY weird.. but at least it wasn't a nightmare....

Except this part where this lady came around with specific phrases that you had to sing.. Like only 3 people sang each one.. and my throat hurt so bad and my voice was going out and I couldn't get a peep out and she got REALLY mad at me...

Belly Shot! 22 Weeks 5 Days!

Mom's horrible nightmare (in her words)

+ Clayton woke me up at 6am when he left for work (to get a hug, kiss, i love you, etc).. I was SOOOO tired I could barely keep my eyes open, but I kept having this recurrent dream over and over again (only this morning/last night). There was this bald guy, and his skin looked like it was all mutilated from burns (burn scars) and he was a serial rapist/killer, and his fingers where hard and came to points and no matter how I changed my appearance and hid and no matter where I went he found me and he kept coming after me. Whenever I escaped into public, I would yell and scream for help and nobody would listen to me. (and now for the really scary part of my dream) - when he got ahold of me, he'd put his hand on my belly and try to squeeze it as hard as he could and dig his hard, pointy fingers into my belly to kill the baby.

+ I was SO mad because we were at the Mall of America.. and I had this shopping cart thing.. and I had FINALLY gotten away from him (the first time I got away) and some woman was closing the gates to Archivers.. And I yelled for my sister to let me in, and she did, but then the woman decided NOT to close the gates and just left it open. And then her and my sister decided to go over to the Star Trek store (don't ask LOL there isn't even such a thing?) and then the mall became filled with people.. And I was with Amy & Siri and I couldn't hide myself, and neither of them cared that this guy was coming after me to kill my baby....

+ I put on baby beethoven after Clayton left for work and that couldn't take my mind off of it, so I got up and ate waffles and drank some milk and whatever and then put the music back on and I fell asleep.

+ I had 2 other nightmares after that (not scary like the other one).

+ I was in some weird mansion.. and I don't really remember exactly what happened, but my sister (who is also my best friend) got trapped somewhere, and I had to take her 2 kids (4 & 2yrs) and go find their dad to help her, and he turned out to be this really creepy guy that made me & this kids stay where we were while he went to "help" her... Well, we went after him anyways.. he turned into her and was yelling at her REAL self...and then he was going to do something bad to her.. or actually something weird? to her and then I woke up (thank god).. and then I had another really weird dream, in the same mansion, but it wasn't really scary.. but it was still nightmarish.. it has the nightmare feel to it.. like there WAS something bad going to happen..

+ And so I've had a horrible day since.. and I've been super tired from not sleeping well..

Daddy felt me kick!

+ Daddy put his hand on mommies belly and waited for me and I kicked his hand!

+ Mom counted my heartbeat today. Somewhere between 160 & 170bmp. Super cool! She only count it for 6 seconds and then times by 10.. So she didn't get a very accurate count.. But she can hear it!!!

+ Mom felt my kicks from the outside (with her hand).

+ She listened for my HB with stethoscope. Could hear it VERY VERY faintly when she was lying down perfectly still, pressing down with both hands. She tried to time it but the only thing she had with seconds was her cd player.. and the only way she could see her cd player is if she held it up.. and if she held it up, she couldn't hear my HB because she had to use both hands to hold down the steth hard/deep enough.... She thought it was still pretty cool though. At first she couldn't figure out if it was mine or the babies.. so she put dad's cell phone on her belly and everytime her heart beat, the phone moved.. so she listened to my HB and watched the phone at the same time, and my HB was twice as fast. (yes, she's weird!)

+ one of the times when she was searching for my HB (after she ate dinner), she had it up on the right side of her belly button, and I kept kicking the thing!

Hiccups!

I had the hiccips today and mommy was able to feel them!

Belly Shot! 21 Weeks 3 Days!

Week 22 (16th-22nd)

Your baby measures about 7.6 inches and weighs about 12.3 ounces. The muscles are getting stronger every week now, and the eyelids and eyebrows are developed. Your baby's acrobatics are pretty constant, and since he responds to sound, rhythm and melody, you can try singing and talking to him. After he's born, the same sounds will soothe him.

Belly Shot! 20 Weeks 3 Days

Prenatal Visit #3

BP: 120/60

Weight: 150lbs
Bust: 38
Waist: 39
Hips 38

Week 20 (2nd-8th)

The fetus measures about 5.6 to 6.4 inches from crown to rump and weighs about 9 ounces. Your baby can hear sounds by now -- your voice, heart and your stomach growling, as well as sounds outside your body. It will cover its ears with its hands if a loud sound is made near you, and it may even become startled and "jump." The baby is moving often, too -- twisting, turning, wiggling, punching and kicking.

Sonogram

HB: 150 BPM

Sono Tech guessed I was a boy.. but nobody is sure yet. She said it could have been my umbilical cord. They were not able to see because I had my legs closed.. and then I folded one leg in front of that area the last time she tried to look. But I am healthy and that is all that matters!