Hello Meatballs!

Not you readers, no, The Meatballs are the babies. They are now 17 weeks.

Finally it would seem that the sickness has gone. Faded away. It started by having the odd good hour or two and stretched out to several days at a time before it seemed to go completely. I’m more pleased than I can say. Finally the placenta is taking care of you guys. Doing its job while allowing me to do mine as the vessel and very hungry carrier.

So what’s replaced the sickness? There has to be something.

Well, I suppose I can only describe it as growth.

They have been tugging. From my navel down to my hip I get these stabbing sensations that are very much like a stitch. Sometimes it occurs when I stand up too quickly or even just roll over in bed. Some days it lasts for hours and other days I only feel it the once.

I also thought I felt a flutter of movement but I can’t be sure of that.

I saw my community midwife, Julie, last week. She did all the usual tests and asked a few questions. Everything is perfectly normal so far. At the end of the appointment she asked me if I’d like to try and hear the heartbeats. I was on the table with my top pulled up rather quickly but a little apprehensive all the same. Julie warned me that we may not be able to hear them as they are still very small but sure enough there they were. My goodness they have such fast heartbeats! Twin One was 150bpm and Twin Two was 145bpm. That’s almost 300 heartbeats per minute plus mine! There’s a lot going on in there.

I think I’m getting a little bit more tired and a wee bit more achy as time goes by. The other day my body simply took sleep back from me and forced me to bed for an hour or so. I’m glad I listened to it though as the next day I felt great and back on top of things.

I can no longer jump under my desk to turn the radiator off and I’m not too keen on bending down all the time. My sense of smell is still through the roof and the other day I walked in to the kitchen and could tell that Robert the Husband had been eating some of my toasted seeds. Mmmm!

Well, I said I’d be honest so I’m going to say that we had a scare last night. Blood, around eight thirty p.m. where there shouldn’t be any blood and too much for our liking. I got on the phone to the midwife and she told me that as I wasn’t yet twenty weeks we needed to go down to A&E but that we should get there fast. There was no pain but with twins people seem to be super cautious so we headed out in to the cold. It was all so reminiscent of the fifth of February last year when we lost our first at 13 weeks. There was snow on the ground, it was pitch black outside, we were in a room with no windows while I wore a hospital band around my wrist and we both stared in to the middle distance like it had all already happened. Funny thing was I kept thinking about Haiti. The orphans. If I lose these twins I’ll take hundreds of them I pleaded with God.

We finally saw someone from the maternity ward who was great at reassuring us and almost convinced us that this was most probably the low lying placenta and it was very normal in twins. The absence of pain and the fact that we are almost 18 weeks is a great sign.

“Can we not just try to hear them?” I said. “Just their heartbeats”

Before I knew it we were in a room a long way away, across the hospital, and the sonogram machine was being powered up. There were the heartbeats and there was one of the babies trying to wake the other up by kicking them. Robert the Husband was so happy, I was more tired than I had ever been in my life.

But they are OK.

So, my wee meatballs, we made it through Week 17. You’re making my belly very itchy even though I lather Jo Malone Grapefruit body lotion on to it every morning it still itches all day long. Stretch, stretch, stretch!

Keep going, loves. We’re almost halfway.

Dada and I are already talking about you both non-stop.

Mama x


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