Third Trimester

May 29 is the day I've been looking forward to for a few months. According to most IVF pregnancy calculators, it's the day when our third and final trimester begins. Since twins are considered full-term at 37 weeks, we've actually completed more than 2/3rds of this journey. To remind us of this great news, SCI sent us our monthly scan over the weekend. At 26 weeks, Twin A was 25 weeks and 5 days while Twin B was still measuring 13 days behind. I sent a panic e-mail to Dr. Shivani and she promptly responded by reminding me that there will always be some difference between twins and that less than 2 weeks is not something to be too concerned about. She also mentioned that our surrogate is on a high protein diet, so we hope Twin B will grow grow grow!

It's hard to imagine how far along we've come in this journey. How did all this time pass by so quickly? Looking back, the hardest and slowest part was the first trimester. Second trimester just flies by. Either that or everything we've been doing to distract ourselves is REALLY working. We took another one of those 'distraction' trips, this time to the San Juan Islands for a family reunion. My brother flew up from Southern California and it was really nice to spend time with him and the rest of the family. When I first came out to them a couple of days before our wedding (bad idea), my folks refused to attend our wedding and it was very difficult for everyone. Since then, their views have really evolved. All these years later, it was nice to see everyone wholeheartedly supporting us and anxiously awaiting our newest additions to the family. Life is good!

We painted the walls of the nursery a very neutral color and finished most of the shopping as well. Now, we just need to put the furniture together and start decorating our nursery.  I don't know if we'll have a nursery theme. Right now it's looking like a lot of animals and travel. We liked a fellow blogger's suggestion of having just 1 crib and a pack n play for the first 6 months. We got the crib and all crib essentials from Ikea. The pack n play is on our gift registry so we'll see if we still need to get it after the baby shower :) The one thing we have no clue about is diapers. I hear twins use about 25-30 diapers a DAY so is there any point in taking them with us to Delhi? That sounds like a lot of excess baggage fees! I would think they would have diapers in Delhi so I think we'll just stock up on diapers from Costco, before heading to Delhi. On our next update, we'll most likely have nursery pictures. Hard to believe that in a little over 3 weeks, we'll hit our 30 weeks pregnancy milestone!

Finally, BIG congrats to Doug & Bill on the birth of their daughter Cristina Lei, to Jason and Adrian on the birth of their twins Olivia Grace and Clara Joanna, and to Temmy on the birth of her baby girl.