WK21: Day 7 - Tiredness is Back!

The rest of this week has gone so quickly! Thankfully I have stopped having the contractions and abdominal pain, so on that front I'm feeling a lot more positive again. My hormones haven’t been very kind to me though! I just suddenly feel completely overwhelmed by this whole thing and the physical frustration of becoming more and more incapable is very hard to deal with. I don’t think the lack of sleep is helping. I have been so tired and hungry over the last week and I just can’t seem to get enough of either. Being so large now though with severe pelvic and lower back pain I am struggling to get any decent sleep. I’m up constantly in the night and find sleeping in the day a lot easier for some reason.

I’m also not able to stand up now for any length of time due the heaviness and pressure of my bump. It’s a very weird pulling down sensation which is so uncomfortable. I went to the physio on Fri and she gave me a tubi grip type of support which was initially great, but I cant really wear it for longer than an hour as it feels too constricting. If anyone can suggest a good bump support I would be very grateful.

It really does mean that I am going to have to completely slow down now and let other people do things for me. Anyone who knows me knows I find this quite hard! Just taking the Christmas tree down, doing some housework and and cooking dinner was enough to have me completely finished off and in tears.

I went to my local twins and multiplies group on Friday which was great. It was so good to meet all the mums and see all the kids together. Three new mums were there including a friend who has just had the most adorable identical twin boys. The 6 babies were lined up in a row, all pretty much the same age and I couldn’t help staring in amazement at 4 together thinking that’s what it’s going to be like! it was the first time I have seen 4 babies together like that and it was quite amazing!!!  

Otherwise the rest of the weekend has been relaxed. I spent most of it sleeping and eating, other than going to Luke’s friend Naomi`s birthday party on Saturday which was great. He had such a lovely time. I decided to get my craft hat on for her gift rather than buying something, so ended up making her 2 flower princess headbands. I was really pleased with the outcome. Amazing what can be done with some ribbon, flowers and a glue gun :)

Today a lot of time was spent discussing how we could customise the house to accommodate the babies and create spaces which are going to be most effective for the day to day care. With the help of my closest friend, and his skills in top ingenuity ideas and craftsmanship Mart and him will be hard at work building customised sleeping, feeding and changing facilities for the boys. Living in a small space we really need to be clever.