A little Update from Fat-Belly-Ville

Testing, testing…testing 123.

I probably don’t deserve the title of “blogger person”, more like “lame ass non-blogger who refers to herself occasionally as a blogger”. Anyhow, let’s forgive and forget and move on to more important bits.

Did I mention I’m 21 weeks pregnant! Whoop! Whoop!

I will relieve you from your suspense and reveal to you my first open-to-the-public belly pics:

Just to put it into perspective, especially those who think I’m still small. This was April 2009, 7 measly months ago:

See what I mean? Yea? No? Oh well, whatever!

So what has happened between 12 weeks and now?

Well, our 17 Weeks fetal assessment showed no abnormalities, which came as a great relief!  After that I suffered a terrible bout of Flu, which had me staring blankly at the ceiling for about a week.  Full recovery took about two weeks (after a good dose of Augmentin).

Our 21 week assessment went fine as well.  Boy twin seems like an avid boxer and girl twin jawned twice during the scan (she clearly finds our keen interest in her wellbeing very boring and over rated). The day after our 21 week assessment the little buggers gave us a terrible fright by pushing down too hard on my bladder (which resulted in a little involuntary spill, which I thought to be amniotic fluid).  I was admitted at the Medi-clinic and they had me stay for the night to monitor for any further leakage. In a nutshell, I was admitted to hospital for peeing in my pants! Wonderful! Seems like motherhood seems to make fools of us all! An internal exam the next morning showed no evidence of amniotic leakage.  The little incident however shook us up a bit and made me realise just how important the next 7 weeks were and that I probably should be more careful and take extra precaution during the next few weeks (as opposed to waiting till I can barely stay on my two feet).

My feet and back are killing me and I’ve gained about 12kg’s!  Frik, I don’t know how they’re going to make space for another 4 months of growth, but I’m preparing myself for a LOT of discomfort and time spent on my beeeehind.

Hope to update you soon on more of Fat-Belly-Ville!  Have to go take a shower, the heat is killing me!