{"id":758,"date":"2010-02-05T01:39:05","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T00:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_mary\/?p=758"},"modified":"2010-02-19T10:48:37","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T18:48:37","slug":"new-users-manuals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_mary\/2010\/02\/new-users-manuals\/","title":{"rendered":"New User&#8217;s Manuals"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Guest Post From Puck:<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_763\" style=\"width: 255px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_mary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/cro-magnon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-763\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-763 \" title=\"cro-magnon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_mary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/cro-magnon.jpg\" alt=\"Hunter-Gatherer wonders, &quot;I can't believe she tried to eat these rocks!&quot;\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-763\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hunter-Gatherer: &quot;I can&#39;t believe she tried to eat these rocks! It&#39;s a good thing I distracted her with my pants.&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The twins have made 9 weeks and according to the latest ultrasound they are both 1 day further ahead than they were 2 weeks ago. \u00a0It would be completely irrational for me to try and take credit for a mere day&#8217;s worth of extra growth, but that isn&#8217;t going to stop me.<\/p>\n<p>My newest token gloat:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;<strong>Yes, I&#8217;m the man. \u00a0I have stuffed my wife with protein and now the twins have picked up an extra day.<\/strong>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Adding a day&#8217;s growth is not insignificant and it means extra fat on those kids when they are born which they will need to stay warm.<\/p>\n<p>Our OB-GYN has upgraded us from the\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">high-risk category<\/span><\/strong><\/span> to the\u00a0<span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #339966;\">pregnant with twins category<\/span><\/strong><\/span>. \u00a0Still not your everyday thing but not any scarier than any other twin birth.<\/p>\n<h2>Enter the Baby-Ninja<\/h2>\n<p>He also referred us to\u00a0<strong>Dr. Hershey<\/strong>. \u00a0Dr. Hershey is like some kind of\u00a0<em>baby-ninja<\/em>. \u00a0(Maybe a baby-doctor rockstar?) \u00a0He has the fancy expensive ultrasound machine and the birthing center seems to think he is amazing. \u00a0Reading the pamphlets about him makes him sound like he knows a thing or two about some stuff.<\/p>\n<p>The gist is, &#8220;<em>Dr. Hershey is very good at what he does. \u00a0Because you are a twin mommy you get special treatment and the really good doctor will do your tests.<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Why? \u00a0Well, with one kid lying on top of the other it&#8217;s harder to get good pictures with a regular ultrasound machine for one thing. \u00a0I don&#8217;t want to sound indelicate but there was some pushing and poking of Mary&#8217;s girly bits before we got two decent ultrasound photos for the blog.<\/p>\n<p>We just got two new baby books in the mail:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1589792807\/?tag=googhydr-20&amp;hvadid=4240957389&amp;ref=pd_sl_26iqtddjqc_b \">Twinspiration<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"> &#8211; This is nice because while still very thorough it is also funny and very calming to read. \u00a0It has a very &#8220;can do&#8221; attitude. \u00a0She usually takes the scary statistics and flips them to put them into context. \u00a0(For example, &#8220;This means you have a 99.9% chance of everything going fine.&#8221;)<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0060542683\/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_2?pf_rd_p=486539851&amp;pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&amp;pf_rd_t=201&amp;pf_rd_i=1589792807&amp;pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;pf_rd_r=1ZXSXGVFSEHE7JQ06ZH7\">When You&#8217;re Expecting Twins, Triplets, or Quads, Revised Edition<\/a> <\/strong>&#8211; This book is also very good with plenty of excellent advice. \u00a0(For example, which foods are better for which trimester.) \u00a0One of the authors also founded and ran a clinic specializing in births for multiples.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That gets us two more specific technical manuals for the bi-baby engineering.<\/p>\n<p>We aren&#8217;t out of the woods yet and we take everyday as it comes, but right now the news is all good.<\/p>\n<h1>WifeWatch 2010<\/h1>\n<h2>Food<\/h2>\n<p>According to the twin books, Yes&#8230; we are supposed to feed Mary an insane amount of food. \u00a0Because we found the twins at 7 weeks, we&#8217;re a bit ahead of the game on the food front and making good time. \u00a0Likewise, because Mary isn&#8217;t hitting much morning sickness we&#8217;re being able to really feed those twins. \u00a0Our next plan is to increase the number of meals per day.<\/p>\n<p>Twin-mommy is being good and eating snacks during the day.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tonight, spinach and steak omelettes covered with cheese.<\/li>\n<li>Tomorrow, ham and beans in the crock pot.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Mood<\/h2>\n<p>Aside from her supersniffer and being a bit jumpy she is doing pretty well. \u00a0The occasional dizzy spell gets her and we tackle those with cold wash clothes on her\u00a0forehead.<\/p>\n<p>Last night when she got woozy, she tried reading in the tub but soaking in hot water isn&#8217;t good for her. \u00a0Instead, we tried warm water. \u00a0It sounds like a good idea, but it turns out that there is nothing so sad as a pregnant lady with her teeth chattering and shivering in the tub.<\/p>\n<p>We got her out, dried her off and wrapped her up in warm sweat pants and a fuzzy bathrobe. \u00a0Once she was warm the pregnant lady was happy again.<\/p>\n<h2>Sleep<\/h2>\n<p>Right after lunch like clockwork Mary wants to sleep. \u00a0That is working great for us and I am routinely grateful that her teaching schedule worked out like this.<\/p>\n<h1>Babies Countdown &#8211; The Double Header<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Thursday, February 11<\/strong> is Twin Week number 10.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Thursday, February 18<\/strong> is Mary&#8217;s appointment to get her blood work done.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Someday in\u00a0February<\/strong> Mary will have an appointment with Dr. Hershey the\u00a0<em>Baby-Ninja<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Thursday, February 26<\/strong> and our 5 week sprint ends which gets us to 12 weeks.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Wednesday, March 3<\/strong> is Mary\u2019s Birthday which gets us to the second trimester. \u00a0At this point, we unlock the veil of secrecy and get to tell everyone.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Thursday, May 7<\/strong> and the twins become viable as early as 22 weeks.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Thursday, May 20<\/strong> and 90% of twins born at 24 weeks survive and that number only gets better from here on out.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Thursday, August 12<\/strong> and we hit our goal of 36 weeks minimum. \u00a0From here on the twins could come at any time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Next goal? 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