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Jane's Calamity: October 2006
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Tuesday, October 31, 2006. Ultrasound / checkup results:. Presenting, i.e. closer to cervix): 3 pounds (35th percentile - just fine for a twin). Upper): 2 pounds, 12 ounces (25th percentile - ditto). Still girls, head down (Wahoo! Healthy heartbeats, very active, good amniotic fluid, and extremely cute. Long-n-tight, no funneling. Best Halloween costume seen in waiting room:. Posted by Jane at 11:34 AM. Monday, October 30, 2006. Grown-ups there to smile knowingly and dole out motherly advice. Of cour...
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Jane's Calamity: June 2006
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Friday, June 30, 2006. Anyone out there working on a novel or similarly long and intimidating creative undertaking, take heed! I have discovered the formula for productivity:. 1 Get pregnant, preferably with more than one baby. 2 Go to an artist and writers' colony in rural Vermont for two weeks. 3 Add frequent rainshowers and thunderstorms. I don't have conversations with my gestating children! The fact is, they still just don't feel. Do I suffer from a horrible lack of imagination? And if I did talk to...
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Jane's Calamity: November 2006
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Thursday, November 30, 2006. Posted by Jane at 9:32 AM. Tuesday, November 28, 2006. And all the children are.average. Just got back from an ultrasound / OB appointment, and am happy to report that both twins are still firmly head down (waaay down) and growing nicely. In the race to stretch their mother's uterus as much as fetally possible, Twin A, aka "The Bladder Banger" is in the lead, weighing in at approximately four and a half pounds, putting her squarely in the 50th percentile (for singletons!
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Jane's Calamity: December 2006
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Sunday, December 31, 2006. How to tell them apart: Elsa (bottom) has a pointier chin and slantier eyes. We think she looks like a little elf. Clio (top) has a wider face and more turned-up nose, like her dad. We think she looks like a little tomato. They share the same exciting array of interests: eating, sleeping, sucking on things, pooping, peeing (usually while they're being changed), making little squeaking and grunting noises, being the center of attention, and downhill skiing. 5 lbs, 2 oz. Gee, I c...
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Jane's Calamity: January 2007
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Tuesday, January 30, 2007. Clio looks exactly like this kewpie doll. Sometimes when she's breastfeeding. She gets this impish little proto-smile on her face. Then her eyelids sag, and she looks like a happy baby stoner. Then, she's sound asleep. When she pulls away from the breast (falls off it, more like it), she pouts adorably, her lower lip thrust out, her eyebrows raised, and her chin covered with milk. She's a terrible eater, really, but she's just so damned cute. Posted by Jane at 7:40 PM. But soon...
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Jane's Calamity: July 2006
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Friday, July 28, 2006. Strange symptoms I have known. Pregnancy is weird. You never know what it's gonna do next. I feel like I'm entering a new phase of symptoms, some good, some not so good, some just bizarre:. 1 I feel like I'm bursting at the seams. It feels like that, all the time, except I'm not sticking it out. I hope this isn't a bad thing. 2 It's harder to get comfy in bed. But it's just hard to feel totally comfortable. I woke up this morning with my lower back hurting. 3 The heebie jeebies.
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Jane's Calamity: February 2007
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Wednesday, February 28, 2007. Today the ladies had their 2 month checkup, complete with shots. It's such a cliche, but I actually did get teary, seeing them lying so sweetly and unsuspectingly on the exam table, then having their meaty little thighs jabbed. It's pure projection, of course, but their screams seem to be not just screams of pain, but screams of "But why? Why would you let this happen to me? Posted by Jane at 12:39 PM. Sunday, February 25, 2007. Posted by Jane at 9:26 PM. Posted by Jane at 1...
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Jane's Calamity: August 2006
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Saturday, August 26, 2006. OK, so I lied. I'm posting one more time before we leave, because I just have to vent about last night and whine about my fears for the upcoming week. At the end of the night, I literally had my arms wrapped around my belly and all I wanted in the world was to get home and be alone with my girls. And the cat, who I forced to cuddle with me. I should just make myself a t-shirt:. I'm due 1/4/07 at the latest. It's twin girls, fraternal. They don't run in my family. My mother thin...
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Jane's Calamity: September 2006
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Saturday, September 30, 2006. Let the nesting begin. A finished painting the nursery this week - he did a fabulous, beautiful job - and on Thursday we put up the above wall border. Adorable, ain't it? As I wasn't in the market for cribs, high chairs or a stroller (a friend just gave us their gorgeous Peg Perego double stroller - ciao bella! I'm guessing there's probably an age (maybe around 2 or 3? And at this point, incidentally, if one of these babies turns out to be a boy, he's just going to have to b...
