{"id":580,"date":"2008-06-18T08:58:27","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T08:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.131.168.108\/wordpress\/?p=580"},"modified":"2008-06-18T08:58:27","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T08:58:27","slug":"580","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/2008\/06\/18\/580\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Twin Stuff<\/span><br style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><br \/>Here&#8217;s some of the &#8220;interesting&#8221; facts about being pregnant with twins that have impacted my life:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>With one baby, we were undecided about whether to find out gender.&nbsp; However, we decided, once the twins appeared on the ultrasound, to be &#8220;finder-outers&#8221; because it made me feel less overwhelmed with how to prepare for them.&nbsp; (BTW &#8211; we both want 2 boys&#8230;though we won&#8217;t be disappointed with 2 healthy babies of any gender!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>I eat about every 2 hours: breakfast, morning snack, lunch, afternoon snack (sometimes twice), dinner, bedtime snack.&nbsp; I haven&#8217;t been hungry in weeks (this is good), and I&#8217;ve only been full about 2-3 times in that span of time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>I find myself holding off doing too much prep until after my next doctor&#8217;s appointment, partly from a little bit of concern that there won&#8217;t be good news (not that this is likely) and partly because I&#8217;m still worn out by about 2:00 in the afternoon.&nbsp; Maybe one of these days I&#8217;ll have enough gumption to actually start looking at stuff.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Eric told his coworkers this week, one of whom had twins in December (about 6-7 weeks early).&nbsp; She was very excited, and we may find ourselves with a good bit of advice, donations, and general help from her.&nbsp; That will be nice!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Speaking of Eric, can I just tell you all what a fabulous man I married.&nbsp; From the day we found out, he has been helpful, encouraging, and incredibly protective.&nbsp; He&#8217;s not overbearing (not his style), but he makes sure I get what I need and regularly checks in with me.&nbsp;&nbsp; And he&#8217;s so cute to watch when someone comes to talk about it at church or elsewhere&#8230;he&#8217;s just so proud and smiling.&nbsp; Love that guy!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>I spend most of every afternoon sitting on the couch with my feet up on a pillow.&nbsp; Yesterday, I went to WalMart and Target (I spent less than 10 minutes here), but by the time I got home I knew I had pushed a bit too far somehow.&nbsp; I still don&#8217;t have a good sense for how much is too much and how soon I&#8217;ll get there.&nbsp; <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;ve been doing a lot of good reading about twins stuff.&nbsp; It&#8217;s been very helpful since my doctor&#8217;s office, while not unhelpful, is not overtly proactive unless I&#8217;m in the office with them.&nbsp; While I&#8217;ve had no problems and no questions to ask, I realized this week how hard it&#8217;s been to basically be on my own for the last four weeks, guessing about whether I&#8217;m doing the right things or not, without any feedback from those who know.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve decided to wait and see how my next appointment goes before I get too concerned, though. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Okay, so those are pretty random, but they&#8217;re all I&#8217;ve got today.&nbsp; Since I wore out so early, I spent much of the day sitting.&nbsp; I&#8217;m just glad it&#8217;s summer, so I have that luxury.&nbsp; And I currently have no plans for today.&nbsp; We shall see what I come up with!<\/p>\n<p>Happy Wednesday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twin StuffHere&#8217;s some of the &#8220;interesting&#8221; facts about being pregnant with twins that have impacted my life: With one baby, we were undecided about whether to find out gender.&nbsp; However, we decided, once the twins appeared on the ultrasound, to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/2008\/06\/18\/580\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}