29 weeks - We have stretch marks

I made it quite some time without any "new" stretch marks appearing but it looks like I have some definite ones showing up - especially around my belly button! Up until recently I think I'd been using up the stretch marks I had from my son but I think I'm about to the size where I gave birth to him SO I'm going beyond and I'm creating new marks...eeks! So far it's not too bad -- hoping it doesn't get too bad. :-) One can hope anyway. SO - I'm 29 weeks today! Next week is 30!! For some reason getting to the 3's sound so exciting to me!! I think it feels safer in a way for the babies in case they come early. I'm really holding out hope that I can make it to 36-37 weeks. I'd love it if they didn't have any NICU time and could come straight home with us. :-) My DR appointment is tomorrow (Friday) afternoon so I thought about holding off on the blog but decided to go ahead and write it and I'll write another one after the appointment.

Babies seem to be pretty active. They have definite active and sleep cycles. I still tend to freak out when I don't feel them for awhile even though I know they have to sleep sometime. LOL I'm starting to definitely feel heads and knees, elbows, maybe heels ?? I'm not too sure. I'm anxious to see how they are positioned tomorrow so I can figure out what body parts are poking out. :-) I've been trying to finish up last minute details on the nursery and everything they'll need when they come home. I just have a few more things to organize but will need Nick's help because I just can't do that much physically anymore. SO that will wait till the weekend. I have started packing our hospital bags. Mine is kind of hard because so much I can't put in there until we go because I use it daily. The babies bag is ready to go! I feel like on one hand I'm doing this all too early but you never know when multiples are going to come OR when/if I'll be put on complete bedrest or worse yet - hospital bedrest!! SO I want to be prepared and if I'm bored and antsy in the last few weeks - so be it. I'm sure I'll be even more tired than I am now so maybe I'll convince myself to nap more! :-)

Here's the fetal development for this week:
If you’ve been feeling butterflies moving around in your belly, it’s not just your run-of-the-mill pre-birth performance anxiety. No, it’s your amazing baby with a case of the hiccups: a fairly common occurrence at this point resulting from practicing breathing for their big birthday. In addition, to getting a round of butterfly-like hiccups, your little swimmer has arduously managed to accumulate enough baby fat to account for nearly 3.5% of their overall body weight. Yeah, compared to we adults, it’s not a lot, but when they’re little like that—it’s certainly a healthy (and warming) accomplishment in its way. Another fantastic accomplishment: your baby's spleen is now in charge of hematopoiesis—the 10 dollar name for the process involved in building up certain important blood components. Another fantastic-accomplishment: your little monkey has been peeing into their amniotic sac for a little while now (this is why potty training takes a while) and if you didn’t know, actually swallows it along with the rest of the amniotic fluid. Although the concept is nasty, their urine is sterile and as part of the amniotic fluid base, is replaced several times throughout the day. So if you didn’t know before, now you can tell people, that yes, you drank your own urine—you were still in the womb, but nonetheless, you’ve been there.

Here's the belly pic for today:


AND here's a timeline up until today (todays belly is the last one):