…smiles!
Well, on good days anyway… But I’ll take it!
Happy Chloe!
Happy Everly!
Of course it’s only fitting that as I’m typing this, they’re being fussy little turdies… 
Tag Archives: vegan pregnancy
The girls are full of…
Let them eat waffles…
24 weeks & kicking like mad
We made it to another milestone yesterday — 24 weeks!
So exciting!
The ultrasound appointment went well and everything is looking good. Baby A is now 1.5 pounds and B is a tad bigger at 1.6 pounds. Nice & healthy weights! Not bad for a vegan momma, huh?
As usual, the girls were both kicking their little legs like crazy, which the u/s tech attributed to the sugary breakfast I had (vegan waffles, oj & watermelon). Oops. Oh well, they looked like they were enjoying themselves. You’re welcome, kiddos.
Baby A still sticks to one little corner of my uterus, while B stretches out and seems to have claimed the whole place as her own. She even poked her nosy head into the shot while the tech was trying to get scans of her sister. Such strong personalities already… Hopefully A will hold her own & fight back once they’re out of the confines of my womb. Either way, I’m definitely going to have my hands full with these guys. We better start thinking about a good spot for a time-out corner…
Avocado confessions.
Today I am 16 weeks pregnant. My babies are the size of avocados!
AVOCADOS!!
Now, being a vegan, you’d think I’d be a big avocado fan… Natural, healthy, plant-based “good” fat – a perfect vegan staple, right? Right? Um… Okay, confession time:
I, Wendy Rose, long-time vegan & even longer-time vegetarian, have never tasted an avocado. Ever.
There. I said it. I have no excuses… no legit reasons for my avocado ignorance. Sure, I’ve had opportunities to try it. Whenever I go to Moe’s, they ask me if I’d like guacamole on my burrito. Each time I respond with a polite, but firm, “No thank you”.
I honestly don’t know what my fear is. The color? Texture? Some creepy, repressed avocado-related memory from childhood? (The only thing I can recall about avocados from my childhood is the fact that “Alf” had an avocado tree in his yard… Unless I’m making that up… Anyone wanna Google that for me?)
I think it’s time to give Mr. Avocado a chance… What harm can really be done?
In order to change my anti-avocado ways, I have added “Try an avocado” to my list of “101 Things in 1001 Days” goal list. So, along with “Get my photo taken with Santa” and “Be called ‘mommy’”, I WILL try a goddamned avocado!*
*Would a tiny dollop of guacamole count? – I’m scared!
Why “2 little rosebuds”…?
Tomorrow I will be 15 weeks pregnant with not one, but two little rosebuds. Yep, that’s them in the photo over there, hanging out in my uterus, listening to the Jerry Springer show. (Perhaps I should start choosing more child-friendly background noise?)
I refer to them as “rosebuds” not because it’s cutesy & sounds better than “fetuses” (ew!), but because my last name is “Rose”. Sooo… little baby Roses = rosebuds. Alright, fine, it’s a little cutesy. Onward…
My husband & I only planned on having one baby. Total. EVER. So it was quite a shock when we went for our first ultrasound at 9 weeks & got the news. What made it even more surreal was the way the u/s technician told us. “Okay, so there’s one baby… and there’s another…” Um, say what?! She said it so nonchalantly, as if having twins was the norm. Like we were expecting it. I didn’t even know what to say. All I could manage to blurt out was “But we only wanted ONE!!!”.
I’ve never been much of a “baby person”, or a kid person in general. I’ve never even changed a diaper. If someone would ask me if I’d like to hold their baby, I would awkwardly decline. So it was no surprise that my family was shocked at the news that I was having 2-for-1 babies. Don’t get me wrong, they’re all happy for us, but they just can’t picture me as a momma. A double momma. To be honest, I feel the same. Now that the shock has worn off, I’m definitely excited about my future mommy-ness, but I’m also terrified at the same time.
Will I be a good mom? Will I go crazy? Will I curse our crazy good fertility? I guess only time will tell. One thing’s for sure, it’s going to be quite an adventure. Get the popcorn ready…
