Hey, Kat! Hey, Lee! How are you lovely ladies doing? How is 2007 treating you?
(Yes, I've skipped, so I have no idea how anybody is doing)
I can beat up demons until the cows come home, and then I can beat up the cows.
Buffy ,'Dirty Girls'
Natter 48 Contiguous States of Denial
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Nilly - Jan 02, 2007 10:22:08 pm PST #9505 of 10007
Swouncing
Lee - Jan 02, 2007 10:24:12 pm PST #9506 of 10007
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Nilly. did you see the pics of JZ and Matilda? [link]
aurelia - Jan 02, 2007 10:24:53 pm PST #9507 of 10007
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Happy Shrifty Birthday!
Kat - Jan 02, 2007 10:28:27 pm PST #9508 of 10007
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Kat, why are you still up?
Still is such a funny word choice.
I fell asleep at ~6:00 PM and slept through to 11:00. Now I'm up (and yawning) and my goal is to get back to sleep before 2 and sleep until 6.
2007 is good, Nilly. Today's ultrasound was good (haven't announced here yet, but yes, you all, I'm pregnant with twins). One twin is slightly bigger than the other. Both are incredibly squirmy. Markers that would show up on a scan for Down's syndrome or spinal bifida were not there. So things look good enough.
This doc is worried about pre-eclampsia, so I'm on baby aspirin to fix blood flow. Mmm... tasty tasty baby aspirin.
So that's my story of the day. That and cleaning. Which reminds me, I have more books to post.
Lee - Jan 02, 2007 10:31:24 pm PST #9509 of 10007
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
YAY BABIES, and things looking good, and not having to remember it hasn't been officially announced yet.
SQUEEEE
Nilly - Jan 02, 2007 10:33:16 pm PST #9510 of 10007
Swouncing
Lee, no, I didn't (I've mentioned the total skipping and the having-no-idea-what's-going-on-ing, right?). Thanks so much for pointing my way!
Those are really lovely pictures. Especially, with what JZ is wearing, and the way she's simply radiating, and the view all around the both of them, some of those pictures seem as if they could be taken a hundred years ago, and still look the same.
haven't announced here yet, but yes, you all, I'm pregnant with twins
What a lovely way for me to start the posting of 2007. Why, yes, even your pregnancy and twins and health are all about meMeME.
Markers that would show up on a scan for Down's syndrome or spinal bifida were not there
Oh, that's good to read. When's the next test due?
t waving at aurelia
Kat - Jan 02, 2007 10:41:41 pm PST #9511 of 10007
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Well, today's test was with a fetal specialist. Can I just say the ultra high resolution ultrasound is FUN? My first doctor through this process had a pretty high resolution sono machine, and my current OB has a very low res one. This one though? Teh Awesome.
Anyhow, I go into my OB tomorow. Then back to fetal specialist at the end of the month.
I keep thinking of Metaphors by Sylvia Plath, which is a favorite of mine. And the whole idea of this experience as being a train I have no control over, where I'm just along for the ride, is so very much how I feel. People just tell me go here and I show up.
Kat - Jan 02, 2007 10:43:19 pm PST #9512 of 10007
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
And I think I have so many appointments because the pregnancy has been somewhat riddled with complications (I saw my OB a week ago!) and because twins are high risk. But the twins themselves, little shrimp sized parasites squirming away, seem fine.
Nilly - Jan 02, 2007 10:52:00 pm PST #9513 of 10007
Swouncing
This one though? Teh Awesome.
Once pointed out to you, could you actually see some stuff?
How far along are you, anyway?
Oh, and that song is lovely. It creates such pictures in my mind, and (reading it aloud, because that's how I read poetry in English, only out loud, otherwise I find it difficult to follow) just sounds lovely. Plus, well, the description makes perfect sense. Thanks for sharing that!
the twins themselves, little shrimp sized parasites squirming away, seem fine.
Excellent. That's the most important part, right?
In Israel, pregnant women are undergoing so many tests and stuff, I didn't even think your description of your Dr. appointments was excessive until you mentioned it yourself. We can go a little crazy in these subjects.
Kat - Jan 02, 2007 10:57:35 pm PST #9514 of 10007
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Once pointed out to you, could you actually see some stuff?
Didn't really need pointing out. Could see the face relatively clearly (one of the markers he was checking had to do with a nasal bone). He also looked at the chambers of the heart.
What was difficult was the amount of shifting both by the twins and by the sono itself. There is a fair amount of, "Which one is that?" Which, poor twins, they will have that for the rest of their lives.
The tests are interesting. There are several I'm not doing by choice because it doesn't change the decision I'm making. But yeah. plenty of them.
I've had more ultrasounds though (and I'm about ~13 weeks) than most people will have in multiple pregnancies.