Twin Pregnancy Diary - 28 weeks 2 days

Twin Pregnancy 28 weeks

To be honest there isn't very much to report this week.  Night times are becoming increasingly uncomfortable and disturbances are greater as my bladder has gone from this capacity...

O

... to this capacity....

.    

(It's that full stop right up there. See?)

Round ligament pains are getting more frequent and can be quite breathtaking sometimes, although the lack of breath could also be contributed to the fact that my lungs are being squashed like an accordion.  

Having got those complaints out of the way, I have to say that I actually don't feel too bad.  Of course, pregnancy isn't easy as your body is dealing with so many changes and working so hard, so some discomfort and even pain is to be expected at times.  On the whole though, I think I have been very lucky so far to have had no problems apart from the odd expected and quite normal pregnancy twinges.

Looking at my photograph above, I don't think I look very much bigger than last week.  It did make me laugh a little when someone over on the Larger Family Life Facebook page commented that it looked neat.  Yes, my abs of steel are keeping it all held together.... I wish!  

We have a growth scan coming up this week.  The sonographer will be checking on the well being of the babies and estimating their size and weights.  Mike has guessed that they're around the 2½lb weight.  It will be interesting to see how near/far he is to the mark.  I cannot believe that we are now in the final ten weeks, as I won't be carrying further than 38 weeks.  Does anyone else think this pregnancy has gone by fast?  Still, let the ten week countdown begin!

If you are a new reader (please do leave a comment and say "hello!") and would like to catch up on this pregnancy diary from the start you can go back to where it begins with the Twin Pregnancy Diary - The First Nine Weeks (Part One). 

If you've caught up, or you've already been following to date you can continue to keep up with our journey by subscribing to a full feed in your reader.

And don't forget, if you'd like to chat with me or keep up to date with all the little stuff in life you can leave a comment after any post or join Larger Family Life on our Facebook page and follow us on Twitter too.

(You can also share posts on Facebook, Twitter, Stumble them or Digg them too so don't be shy! It's good to share, after all!)


 Tweet

Subscribe to Larger Family Life and get the latest news directly in your inbox or reader.  You can also join us on Facebook and Twitter too!

Larger Family Life is also available on Kindle!

Look at what I have here...

If you are already a Larger Family Life Facebook friend you'll have seen it already.  If not, I wouldn't want to leave you out...

 More details to come later this week!



 Tweet

Subscribe to Larger Family Life and get the latest news directly in your inbox or reader.  You can also join us on Facebook and Twitter too!

Larger Family Life is also available on Kindle!

Packing for the hospital in style - Julie Slater & Son's Weekend Bag Review

I have one handbag. One single, big, brown handbag that I use all the time. It is the handbag my brother in law and his girlfriend bought me about three Christmases ago. It doesn't matter to me if it matches my outfit or not. Then again, I normally wear black and black goes with anything, so they say.

I am normally not swayed by things like bags. As far as I'm concerned as long as you can fill them with stuff that you need to transport from one place to another then then that is all that matters.

Until I got this...

 Julie Slater & Son is the home of travel bags and accessories.  If you are looking for anything from a luggage tag to an overnight bag then this is the place to find it.

Julie sent me the lovely Weekend Bag in a Mono Hoop pattern.  It is such fantastic quality and wonderfully made and is so generous in size that the twins could probably sleep in it.  Not that I would put the twins to sleep in it, you understand.

This is too big to use as a handbag but I immediately thought of packing for the hospital.  You know what my procrastination has been like with getting the baby clothes ready.  Then procrastination hit when it came to packing them for the hospital.  Then this beautiful bag arrived and I thought, "That's going to match my clothes!" and I packed up all the little baby vests and sleepsuits I had set aside to take into hospital.  And the bag is only half full!  There is still plenty of space in it.  I confess that I keep opening it up to take a look at the bright, turquoise lining inside because it's such a contrast and so cheery to look at.

There are a couple of other bags in the same design, so you can have a matching wash bag, cosmetic bag, overnight bag, or shopper.  And if monochrome isn't your thing, there's a colourful range of bags and other gift ideas to choose from.

In fact, at Julie Slater & Son there is so much to choose from, you'll find it hard to make a decision! (And she's a really, really nice lady too!).


Julie Slater & Son sent me a bag for review. I now look forward to showing it off every chance I get.


 Tweet

Subscribe to Larger Family Life and get the latest news directly in your inbox or reader.  You can also join us on Facebook and Twitter too!

Larger Family Life is also available on Kindle!